CYCLING THE HARBOUR
BICYCLE INVADES REALM OF YACHTSMEN Swimming the Waitemata is not the aim of Mr. A. Sands, of Point Chevalier. He intends crossing on a bicycle and he will not receive the aid of the vehicular ferry or the harbour bridge. To cross water on an ordinary bicycle seems an impossibility, although many folk say the age of miracles is not past. Therefore Mr. Sands has evolved a craft which combines the machinery of a bicycle with floats. This is the bicycle-boat. The machine is built of an ordinary bicycle mounted on hollow iron floats, the rear wheel, to which are attached a number of iron paddles, being submerged to about six inches. A speed of four to five miles an hour can be attained, and Mr. Sands expects to reach a greater speed by shaping the floats into a bow. When this is finished he intends making a trip across the harbour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 887, 3 February 1930, Page 16
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155CYCLING THE HARBOUR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 887, 3 February 1930, Page 16
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