22 APRIL 1916, Page 12

THE MOTOR-CYCLE.

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SrEcrAi0a.1

Bra,—May I respectfully take exception to your statement that the motor-cycle is "only a pleasure vehicle" ? The fact that it is often weed for pleasure (though not so often in these days) does not make it so. It is, in reality, the cheapest form of rapid locomotion. Many men (commercial travellers, teachers, clergymen with large and scat- tered parishes) use it in their work. It is as necessary to them as the doctor's motor-car is to him. But the class of men who use motor- cycles iii their daily work are poorer than doctors.—I am, Sir, &c., A CLERICAL MOTOR-CYCIIST.