The Sensational Bicycle Performance.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6705, 19 November 1889, Page 3

The Sensational Bicycle Performance.

TO THE'IDITOB. Sib,— l have read with much surprise your interesting amount of Holbein's wonderful achievement, and although aware that the safety was fast superseding the ordinary bicycle, was not prepared to find bo great a preponderance of the former over the latter as the facts disclose. May not the fact that the race occupied portions of two nights have deterred many riders of the ordinary, through fear of spills, from competing, and so, in some measure, account for the small number of that class of-ridera ?•— lam, &c, r^ , „ SPOKE. [We cannot better reply to our correspondent than by referring him to the " Cyclist " of Sept.,ll, which contains » full account of the content for thC

ing him to draw his own conclusions therefrom. This race was run at Paria on Sept. 1, at h»lf-pa3t twelve noon, on the road round the racecourse of the "Bois de Boulogne;" thirty-five riders started, thirty-two on safeties, three on ordinaries.— Ed. Star.]