CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1120, 28 September 1911, Page 13

CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

GOULBURN SYDNEY ROAD RACE. The Sydney-Go jiburn road race resulted as follows: — Rennie (Victoria), 30min 1 Kirkham (Victoria), scr 2 J. W. Wilson (Vic'oria), 14min ... 3 Time, 7hr lOmin 42sec. The New Zealanders, A. Smith and O’Shea (scr.), Tozer (14min), and O’Donoghue (18min) also started, but none of them finished in the first tweny. Smith punctured his tyre after going five miles. O’Shea’s riding time was 7hr 21min Bsec. O Donoghue’s 7hr 43min 57sec, Tozer s 7hr 39min 49sec Kirkham did the fastest time, which was 6hr 19min 31sec. There were 127 starters. Rennie won by four minu-es. The winner has done a considerable amount of riding in New Zealand.

An American motor cyclist named V E. Davis has succeeded in riding across the United States from San Francisco to New York —a distance of 3,746 miles —in 20 days 9 hours 1 minute, or over eleven days faster than the previous motor cycle record across America. Davis, who rode a 75 h.p. twin machine, met with more than a fair share of wet weather during the trip, and one day, despite plugging along through mud and slush for many liours, only succeeded in covering 49 miles. The. longest day’s tally was 289 miles. A- remarkable feature of the ride was that Davis had only one tyre puncture during the ride, which embraces some of the roughest tracks in the United States. The average daily mileage for the full trip works out at over 180 miles —a remarkable performance considering the nature of the country passed through. The motor car record for the same run — only by a route two hundred miles shorter —is held by L. L. Whitman, who, in August last year, negotiated the trip in 10 days 15 hours 13 minutes.

An American motor cyclist named V. E. Davis has succeeded in riding .across the United States, from San Francisco to New York, a distance of 3.746 miles, in 20 days 9 hours 1 minute, or over eleven days faster than the previous motor cycle record across America. Davis, who rode a 75 h.p. Twin machine, met with more than a fair share of wet weather during the trip, and one day, despite plugging along through mud and slush for many hours, only succeeded in covering 49 miles. The longest day’s tally was 23 9 miles. A remarkable feature of the ride was that .Davis bad only one tyre puncture during the ride, which embraces some of the roughest tracks in the United States. The average daily mileage for the full trip works out at over 180 miles —a remarkable performance considering the nature of the country passed through. The motor car record for the same run —only by a route nearly two hundred miles shorter —is held by L. L. Whitman, who in August last year negotiated the trip in 10 days 15hrs. 13mins