A DUNEDINITE ON TOUR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2299, 24 March 1898, Page 41

A DUNEDIN ITE ON TOUR.

Mr A. L. Fogo, who left here some nine or ten months ago, sends me » chatty letter giving a few details of his trip Home, and pens soeqo ■ of his iinpres?iou3 from a cycling point, ■of view. He seems to be experiencing a pleasant holiday, and the following L-xcract from his latter may i prove of interest to my readers : — : Machines bave come and are coming down ,in price very much in , England. American [ machines oao now bo bought in many parts of i Britain at a price very much below that ab j which they can be produced in the States. In i Canada, machines are very common, and the i ypes mostly used are made in the States. I was • through the Massey-Harns factory at Toronto, J and during my visit the machinery was hard at ifc boring, turning, and shaping. Many factories in America have gone " bung," and overproduction and low prices will noon e»us>e many more to put up the shutteis. Certainly, when tho !' American starts to "boom " a thing, he does it . t He boomed the cycle, and now he is " busting." 1 I cycled a few thousand miles in the States, j Canada, and Bltx'co, and found the roaos* very i good. To an English , rider, f.he A'tnt-r.-i can roads are not roads at all ; but , thuo I the average Englishman is nob versatile : ' he^ likes everything cut and dried for bio.. Certainly I would give the p*lui to Mexico farpoar roads, bub in this country for many years they have been going on the " come ds-y, g - day" style, bub even then you cm gc.C alghj somehow. In Quebec and Oatario (Canada) the roads are immense — fall of holes- ana ditches ! — bufc tho exhilarating air makes up for these little things. There is cothiafj rouud Dunedia like a spin round Toronto or Quebf<\ la England and Seoilaud the roads are superb, ••,nd the scenery pplerdid Ib is a treat to _•• through tho old villages and' see the n't? churches and oldest inhabitant, then call st tie "pub" for twopeanorth rf beer. The; p-cuh-arity of "rural England" is that every bemg is so fresh and greea : there is nothing to compare with ib in the colony. In parts of France toe same fresh look prevails over the suefsce of the I country, tut the buildings look so terribly old. I London is \ fine place to ride about io. There is plenty of traffic, consequently you have to ktep your eyes open, but you can get through ift jasfc tha same. Cycle-racing has boomed and bust in Britain. Jt will be a hard matter to excite much interest, in racing this coming season. The " upper ten " do no's now go in for the wheel as they did; c"n»equeutly in England, where people as a rule fojlow aieader, the ladies do nob use the wheel x o much as formerly.