Davis County Clipper | 1917-11-23 | Page 5 | Go the Limit

GO THE LIMIT I 1 speed of motorcycles used by united states soldiers attracts attention in paris all paris Is familiar now with the ight of huge motorcycles ridden by US big fellows in campaign hats and anid e ed d through the streets at alarming speeds by sure and steady hands bands says gays a i war correspondent it seems that the ordinary french motorcycle has something like three horsepower hor depover while these american military motorcycles develop 11 horsepower this leads the french to observe that americans love power powe r and a lot of it in their machines they must have it one of the paris papers has been at pains to look up a record made in a 24 4 hour race on the sheepshead day bay track not long ago somebody on a mechanical red devil with two wheels maintained during that period it seems an average speed of a hundred miles an hour the french commentator notes the figures and hopes that the american start staff motorcyclists motor cyclists who carry dispatches between american of and the various bureaus of the french war department will not make it a point of national honor to equal the sheepshead bay record on the boulevard saint germain one fancies that the frenchman who makes makel the suggestion mildly as he says really thinks that the mad americans americana are quite capable of going anywhere as fast as their machines machI neg will let them