The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16
.MOTORCYCLISTS TO
MAKE RUN TO niles
Members of Local Club VIII
Leave San Francisco at s
o'clock This Morning

The members of the san Francisco
motorcycle club Will leave on the s
O'Clock creek route boat this morning
on picnic run TO Niles canyon. They
VIII be Joined IN Oakland by the mem
bers Of the Oakland motorcycle club.
All motorcyclists, whether members
of the clubs or not, and including
women. are invited. Each must carry
a lunch. It is expected that this will
be the biggest run Of the year. as the
season is drawing to a close. There
WILL however. be big endurance run,
either to Santa Cruz and return or to
Aalfmoon bay. by Lobitas oil well and
Redwood City and return before the
rainy season commences. In the pro-
posed endurance run penalties Will be
made for all stops. The way this viii
oe done will be that every rider will
watch the others, and the man report
ing the points lost viii gain these
points to his credit. If riders come
10 a man who has stopped:s matter
for what cause, they will each gain a
point This arrangement of penaliza-
ton viii mean no end Of fun and keep
every rider on the lookout for some
stalled motorcyclist.
W. G. Collins, who is associated with
Q. c. Hopkins. the local Indian agent,
reports thar~the company has on eXhi-
bit1on q big seven horsepower Indian
motorcycle, two speed and free engine,
at the Wigwam.
Volney e. Davis of this city wrote
from Evanston, Wyo., TO c. c. Hopkins.
under date of October y. that he ex-
poets TO reach this city about N0vem-
Der on his return from the east by
motorcycle. Davis left San Francisco
Ia ST year and crossed the continent by
way of Arizona. New Mexico and the
southern states, and before starting on
his return trip had covered $500 miles.
He viii be the first man to make the
round trip on a motorcycle. He is US
ing the same machine that he started
on, but while in the east he had free
engine clutch fitted, and he expressed
himself as well pleased with the ad-
vantages of that device. He rides five
horsepower twin Indian. Davis wrote
that he has had a companion on the
return trip since Des Moines, Ia. The
san Francisco club, of which Davis is
a member, will meet him up the road
on the day Of his arrival.
According TO the report Of Consul
Franklin d. Hale, American. made
. 1nortorcycles formerly were most COM
monty seen on the island of Trinidad,
blst recently those on the market are
mostly of English make and range in
price from $25 to S125. The most
popular are motorcycles costing from
$50 to $50. The value of imported
bicycles during the year 190S-1909 was
S4.3ss, of which only 1855 worth came
from the United States. The import
duty on bicycles and tricycles other
than motor is So; on motors $12. BIZ
cycles are extensively used in Trinidad
for both business and pleasure, and
their use is undoubtedly becoming
more popular.
Tom Brinker, Harold Stratton and
Freeman Wetherby are said by +. +.
Stratton of Colorado Springs, Colo, to
be three of the youngest motorcyclists
in the United States. They recently
made the, $50 mile run to Denver and
return and reported most enjoyable
trip. They are between the ages of
10 and u and rode Excelsior machines.
A foreign pipe manufacturer has
solved. as he believes. the problem for
the smoker who would like to indulge
while riding on his motorcycle. He
has made a pipe the bowl Of which
hangs below the stem with the open
end pointing backward, SO that the
contents Of the pipe are protected from
the wind.
P. T. Gunnerson, a grocery sales
man travelling in northern Missouri
and southern Iowa, has discovered that
with his Thor " motorcycle it is pos
sible TO save half his time, cut his eX-
pense account in two and still do the
same amount of work he used TO do.
IsAt the same time he thoroughly enjoys
the pleasure of slximming over the
roads instead of driving in buggy or
riding on a train. In summing up his
first experience with his machine Gun
nerson has written TO the factory, a
copy of the letter being sent to A.
Freed. the local agent for the Thor.
It reads: "Our entire trip covered 4o6
miles. passed through 3s towns. in
cluded calls on merchants in 2S Of
them and netted me a good week s
trade and a pleasant outing-all for
s13.75. This included paying the hotel
bills Of my companion and myself 1t
costs me s35 to make this same trip
by rail and livery"
l. z. Fluke of Chicago, a demon
strator for the Harley-Davidson motor
cycle and his bride have completed 2
motorcycle honeymoon trip of four
weeks. Fluke has written to J. Hole,
the local agent for the HarleyDavid-
son. that the couple rode four horse
power Harley-Davidson, single
cylinder covering 1900 miles through
northern Illinois. Indiana and as far
south as Kentucky.
J. w. Salter, rural mail carrier on a
delivery route in Lee county. Ca. has
purchased a motorcycle and now covers
his 26 miles in less than four hours,
whereas he formerly kept two horses,
and il took him over twice as long.
c z. Mathewson. Pacific coast mana
ger of the Diamond rubber company, is
in receipt OF a
T-.s~e. FIf. copy of letter
Dta,,ord Tires written TO the Los
= D--- - Angeles branch by
B. l. Brown. OF
, South Pasadena. Brown writes: 81 am
pleased to tell you that ] have on my
Buick white Streak" a Diamond tire
that has run 1920 miles. This was the
only original tire on the machine when
I purchased it, after il had been run
eT3O miles The other tires were of
N-o+,-ey he J,-4+ N new n. We r,r,