ALL ON WHEELS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20647, 24 December 1941, Page 3

ALL ON WHEELS

KING BIKE TAKES CHARGE

To-day, in Wairoa, the cycle ha's taken on high social caste. No longer is it referred to as the “bike," the “old grid,” or the “boneshaker." Gone are the days when the motorist looked with lofty cuitempt on the pedaller and inferred that he was something that should not be on the road. One now speaks, in Wairoa, of “my bicycle,” or. if one moves in •pally high circles, “my cycle.” In fact there is now the “old school bike.” judging by Hie appearance o’ some of the machines— another suitably dignified term—which have brer dug out of the shed at the boUcnt of the garden, and which must have carried their portly owners tr school. In Christchurch, everybody cycles The banker in his bowler bowls along to the hank; the loijnl light ’egs it out towards litigation, and the parson pedals proudly along. With all the restrictions on tec: and Dominion-wide travelling, “King Bike” is now able to hold court. But there is a catch in this. There is bound to be a limit to the number of machines that will be availableTherefore locomotion may before long go one step further on the down-grade, and we will all have to travel by the “Hobnail Express."— E.R.B.