Cycling.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 92, 5 April 1902, Page 6

Cycling.

Bill Mai tm won the one, tlnee, and five miles championships at Inveicaigill , also the Otago championship On Maich 21st, at Lancaster Paik, he established a new lecoul for the quaiteimile standing start unpaced, doing the distance in 30 3-oth seconds. Martin rides Ideal tyres These are supplied by any cycle agent, and aie guaranteed for 12 months They are. manufactured by A. G. Healing and Co Cknstchurch and Melbourne Martin intends riding Ideal tyies in Australia, and has great hopes of ieducing seveial of the Australasian records Says Plugger Bill ''I guess they'll take some getting, but I ought to do it with those tyres, for they are the lightest and fastest I have e\ei ridden." Geoige Sutherland was m sufficiently good form at Imeicargill on St. Patrick's Dav to account for the two race^ he started in, and he has been instrumental in winning thp handsome- Enfield Cup for the Chnstchuich Cycling Cluo three times on Dunlops In a recent biake test for automobile speed in England, some of the caiswere pulled up on less than their own length when travelling at thirteen miles an hour. Nearly, if not all of the English cycle houses are now listing motoi bicycles, the most popular style of attachment being the Minerva There are two machines similarly fitted now running in the colony. On the 2oth instant, at Lancaster Park, W. Martin, the American cyclist, reduced the New Zealand tw enty-five miles and hour paced lecords. Maitin set out with the determination of reducing the Australasian hour record, which stands at thirty-one miles ten hundred and forty-one yards, but bad luck was met ■with, after travelling twelve and ahalf miles, which were covered in just over twenty-two minutes. Martin's front tyre gave out, and another was substituted, which meant a delay of six minutes As all possibility of i educing the Australasian record was. out of the question through this delay, Martin, nothing daunted, still felt that lie could obtain the Nen\ Zealand lecords, and was soon again carving out mile after mile ell under two minutes, and with only two or three laps to go to make up the twenty-five mile«>, he had the misfoitune to lose his motor pacer through the rear tyre coming off, caused through the cement with which it was fastened becoming heated by friction Sutherland and Palmer, who were mounted, both came down, the latter falling lightly as he partly dismounted with agilitv. Sutherland falling the heavier, and getting some abrasions although not severe. In the meantime, Martin kept on, a number of visiting riders turning: out and vaemg him through to the finish, on singles, with the result that, notwithstanding the amount of misfortune Martin was successful in establishing; new figures, as he covered the twentvfive miles in fifty-two minutes two and two-fifths seconds, and twentv-sevcn miles ten hundred and twentv-two yards in the houi