THE HILL CLIMBING TEST.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I have anxiously scanned your columns for a reply from the officials of the Hawke’s Bay MotorCycling Club, but as none has appeared one must conclude that rayremarks were too pertinent forthem to answer. Now I know personally the hill which was used by the Southern Counties Motorcycling Club, and also by several London clubs for hill climbing. The hill, on the borders of and Surrey, going over the highest part of the North Downs, is nearly., a straight road with a climb of one in seven. On Thursday last (lie spot chosen here was a gentle incline full of corners and turns, thafcanyone with a push-bicycle could easily ride up, giving, as I stated in Friday’s issue, every advantage to a high-geared light motor. If the Motor Club wish to retain the confidence of its members it should either have a hill-climbing competition or else give it its proper name. And at the same time I might mention that it would be well to remove all suspicion of . professionalism from their entries. —I am, etc., * t SPORT..
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 163, 27 June 1911, Page 1
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186THE HILL CLIMBING TEST. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 163, 27 June 1911, Page 1
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