Cycling Notes

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3877, 23 May 1906, Page 4

Cycling Notes

A little while back it looked as if the sport of motor cycling would be prejudicially affected by the recent, improvements in the domain of its big brother—the motor car. But the advent of the Victorian Motor Cycle Club, with its large membership roll and vigorous policy, has changed all that. After the first annual meeting, to be held on June Ist, it is expected that the Club will receive accessions to its strength and that the following season will see a further marked improvement in the development of the machine. Each Satuiday in the present, month is to be utilised in runs, all of which start from Prince’s Bridge at 2.80 p.tn. and from June 2nd to June 4th a three days’ tour will be held. Many cyclists have . met with fatal accidents by falling from their machines when travelling at eight or ten miles an hour, but there are several instances of motorists being precipitated from their vehicles at express speeds and suffering little or no injury from the fall. The reason generally given for this is that in an accident which occurs when one travels at high speed, the victim is thrown high into the air and describes a kind of parabola before coming to earth, and in this w«y a large proportion of the original momentum is lost. The body, too, may have time to assume h.v attitude in which the impact can be borne with the least possible am ount of damage