CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1071, 15 September 1910, Page 11

CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

There are 138 acceptors for the Goulburn-Sydney road race-

It is estimated that £10,000,000 is annually expended in Great Britain on motor and cycle tyres. This amount is spread over 80,000 motorists, 80,000 motor cyclists, and 3,000.000 cyclists.

Close on top of Leon Meredith’s great 100 miles unpaced record over and out and home course on English roads in 4hrs. 52mins. 51 4-ssecs. comes word of another very fine performance by C. Moss, another wellknown English crack, who, in a 100 miles handicap race over an out and home course, covered the “Century” from scratch in 4hrs. 58mins. 21sec. The first “fifty” was ridden in 2hrs. 19mins, This is the fastest hundred miles yet ridden in England in a handicap road race-

The longest distance road ' event held in the world, the Tour de France, was approaching conclusion when the latest English mail left home. This event is held in fifteen sections, the total distance being 3,200 miles. This long drawn out contest started on July 3rd, and would not terminate until July 31st. A big field of 110 riders started in the first section, and at the completion of the fourth stage some 7 2 men were left in, despite some very bad weather. The race is decided on points, which are awarded to the leading rider at the finish of each section, the contestant scoring the best on total points being the winner.

Word is to hand that Tom Larcombe, the New South Wales road champion, failed in an attempt on September 3, to get under Leon Meredith’s figures for the Unpaced Hundred Miles’ Road Record of 4hrs. 52mins. 51 4-ssecs., over an out and home course. Larcombe, like Oldham, had to contend with a strong wind, which decided him to relinquish the attempt until later in the season. Larcombe covered his first twenty miles in 58% mins., twenty-five miles in 74 mins-, and thirty miles in 8 9mins. A strong wind now began to give the New South Wales crack trouble, and at sixty miles, negotiated in 3hrs. smin., Larcombe retired. He will attempt on the western district roads of Victoria when he is over for the forthcoming “Warrnambool.”