ROAD CYCLING
TIME TRIAL RACE
PONEKE CLUB'S EVENT
On Saturday the Poneke Amateur Cycling Club will conduct the first twelve hours time-trial race to ibe held in New Zealand. The race will start at 5 a.m. from the Miramar Wharf, where the riders will leave at one-aninute intervals. The course will be past the power-station, along Salek Street, along Broadway and' through the Seatoun Tunnel. Riders will pass through Worser Bay and around the coast until the Wiramar Wharf is again reached. The circuit will be continued until the rider completes his twelve hours, and officials will check him out on the fqad. The rider covering the greatest distance in the time will receive the blue riband. During the race riders will /be supplied with milk, soup, fruit, sandwiches, etc. The approximate distance that will be covered will be two hundred miles, and with local men of the calibre -of Amey, 'Dutton, Disley_, and leading riders from other provinces competing, a keen contest should result. In this type of event a competitor has to ride unpaced the entire journey and cannot accept shelter from any source. A sealed milage allowance will be made for Saturday's race. In Eng* land time-trials of this type are popular and the English road record for twelve hours 1 riding is 251£ miles, made by C. Hepplestone in 1936.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1938, Page 11
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224ROAD CYCLING Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1938, Page 11
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