RIDING WITHOUT HANDLEBARS
A WARNING PROSECUTION. Dominion Special.' Christchurch, October 15. Motor-cyclists who indulge in the practice of stunting by driving without their hands on the handlebars, allowing the machine to steer itself by balance, are liable to prosecution under the by-law which prohibits this practice as dangerous. A warning prosecution was brought in the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr. H. A. Young. S.M., when Arnold Hadfield pleaded not guilty The constable who took the defendant’s number said he was riding along High Street rattening up hiS gloves, but even when this operation was completed defendant did not resume control of his handlebars Senior-Sergeant Martin said that the practice was a common one, and was verv dangerous. 'i he prosecution was brought as a warning to potential offenders. It applied also to riders of bicycles. As the case was the first brought under this section of the by-laws, the Magistrate convicted Hadfield and ordered him to pay costs only.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 19, 18 October 1926, Page 9
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