DOGS are as great a nuisance and danger to motocyclists as the dust is to cyclists.

They are a danger also to ordinary cyclists but to not so great a degree, the lesser speed enables them to take more effective means of avoiding any threatened danger.

On Saturday evening, a cyclist was riding Redditch-wards from Evesham and, upon passing through Cookhill, a great rough-haired brute of a dog made a dash for him and came within a hair's breadth of causing a smash.

The motorist was going at a fair speed as he wanted to get home before lamp-lighting time, and his flesh fairly "creeped" as he felt the front wheel of his machine brush against the dog.

If there had been an accident, the owner of the dog would have been liable but that did not happen and would not have been much consolation to the man who gets his head cracked or his neck broken.