PILLION RIDING.
Sir,—Mr, Cummings* remarks re pillion riding are becoming more and more absurd. I am prepared to give £5 5s to any society he names if he can prove that the accident in Khybcr Pass was caused by pillion riding. As a matter of fact the machine was not even carrying a pillion passenger. In the Ponsonby accident, the driver was a novice and the machine was not provided with a pillion seat. I think the clcar-headed observer can liave no fault to find if the riding is carried out, in an orderly manner. I can quite understand public opinion being against the speedster, but we have by-laws and police sufficient to deal with these. All the motor-cyclist is asking for, is pillion riding—one passenger—on a properly constructed seat and under proper conditions. By the last, mail from England I have advice that as many as 1581 pillion riding seats were sold by one firm in May last, and that a given period in 1922, showed an increase in sales of these seats of over 120 per cent, of the same period in 1521. This should he sufficient proof of the increasing popularity of this harmless sport.. R. E. CITA-MrTALOTJP.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18174, 21 August 1922, Page 9
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