CYCLING CENTENARY
9000 RIDERS TAKE PART
COLUMN A MILE LONG
(By Teleßrapli—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 29. According to a police estimate, 9000 or more cyclists left Christchurch today on a mystery bicycle hike to celebrate the centenary of cycling, organised in aid of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. . The reputation of Christchurch as a city of bicycles was fully justified- by the line of cyclists, extending from Carl ton Mill Bridge, in formation .six deep, to the Canterbury Museum, a distance of a mile. Thousands of spectators filled the rest of. the road, and traffic had to be stopped. - The line moved off 'at 9.30 a.m., headed by a St. John Ambulance. It arrived at New Brighton trotting grounds, taking about two* hours to pass a point on the route. Here various races were organised and a cavalcade of cycling, representing the development of the bicycle, was presented. ■■■.■.'■
Three accidents occurred, none of them serious.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 13
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155CYCLING CENTENARY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 13
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