13 AUGUST 1932, Page 12

A HIKER'S CLAIM.

A great countryman of my acquaintance, now approaching three score years of age makes this curious claim. He has just concluded a three weeks' cycling tour in Wales, with the following result : " I discovered a fact which I had suspected and have now tested. I can ride one hundred miles on my bicycle with less fatigue than I can drive a car one hundred miles. It is curious, but confirms a remark which one of the greatest of racing tricyclists made to me. He said that on his tricycle over twenty-four hours he would beat any motorist not of the trained racing class. He can do nearly 400 miles in twenty-four hours on the tricycle : there are very few ordinary men who could drive a car 400 miles at a stretch." * * * *