MOTORCYCLIST’S LUCK

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1930, Page 11

MOTORCYCLIST’S LUCK

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PERCY COLEMAN BACK 1 ’.MISHAPS IN BRITISH' RACES. NEWCOMERS NEVER SUCCESSFUL (By Wire:—Special to News). Auckland, Last Nighty Percy Coleman, who represented Nev? Zealand officially at the Tourist Trophy riotor-cycle races in the Isle of Mani m June last, returned to Auckland by 'the Aorangi from Sydney to-day. Coleman la tho holder of the world’s heavy-weight championship on grass, and although' he has not done a great amount of racing on the open road he has come back full of admiration for the skill of the riders ■ he met abroad. ‘; i • Lujck’i yras not altogej-ht’r .with the New ; Zealand rider. ; Hje 'wris unfortunate in the riaces. A crash on a treacherous bend put him out of the junior rrice, and in the senior event his machine failed-, .So .many factors entered iin£o the' 'doinpetition that at Home it is considered a good performance if a competitor was successful in his third ye&r in the: rape. A -newcomer has never yet passed the post first. The course is- so tortuous and tricky that it requires a tremendous amount of practice to obtain even a general knowledge of (its difficulties rind the Speeds at which they? ! can be successfully surmounted — j more time than Coleman had before i tho -races. • , . ■ ; Another difficulty was that Coleman had to race with an ordinary standard model machine, whereas some of ipe competitors used machine's specially built, which had. cost thousands, (of. pounds. ■ ; Colcjnan;. vyi.ll; r-qturn to Yyaijiga.nui; in . a few days. Hi's plans for the future, ho said, were indefinite, but it probable ho would be seen on the tracks of the Dominion again. i ■