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Great photo and story
« on: 02.02. 2021 09:19 »
The text was in French and then amusingly translated
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Re: Great photo and story
« Reply #1 on: 02.02. 2021 09:58 »
 Read the text, then looked more closely at the picture. No, its not a Napoleon Pose, it's a somewhat inconvenienced fella and the translation is all about adaptions made for him to ride. There is no clutch lever for starters, as I can see.
 OK, the prose is difficult to follow and the style has become  similar to Machine Translated Chinese Electronic Manuals, where the text really need proof reading from an English Speaker.

 Thanks GB, an interesting Period Piece.  BSA...Bits Shoved Anywhere by the look of it. Battery ready to leak on your knee or the maggy. Is it a street racer?  Two clocks, obvious front wheel speedo drive and what could be a tacho, yet it has road going lights, number plates and bulb horn.

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« Reply #2 on: 02.02. 2021 11:12 »
It mentions riding from Paris to Nice.

I got Google to translate from the French:

1928, March 9, Levallois, weighing of motorcycles from Paris-Nice, Dalest on B.S.A. 350 cmc, the hero of the day (we are not nearly 92 years old ...) in 1928 on a trendy motorcycle (!) We control the machine thanks to a whole bunch of controls, on the handlebars, on the right, we has the front brake lever, the two levers of the carburetor (the opening of the valve and the air adjustment, the rotating handle is far from being adopted everywhere and especially by all ... the motorcyclist of the time is already conservator) on the handlebars, on the left, we have the clutch lever (often coupled with a pedal on the left) the valve lifter (or decompressor) and the advance adjustment lever. With the feet we brake to the right and we disengage to the left and with all that we change the gears with the lever on the right of the reservoir by releasing the handlebars either with the left hand by disengaging the left foot while maintaining the throttle with the right hand , either with the right hand by disengaging with the left hand ... there are also exotic (or poetic) standards with the Indian or Henderson but let's move on ... we can also add a lever for the horn, a blow pump -fist to send a good squirt of oil in addition to the pump that can also be adjusted while driving.
There the guy leaves to go from Paris to Nice, and we know plenty of them who will never do it, even with their queens of the Gelände and the Strasse, it is not a question of a walk, but of the competition. roughly. For those who have not understood, a few things are missing on the handlebars and in the sleeve of Dalest. I let you imagine ... in addition its brèle is not nothing, a tumbled machine much less docile than an M20, in any case me, suddenly, I put things into perspective and despite my little injuries, things are going well, thank you.
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« Reply #3 on: 02.02. 2021 11:18 »
For French readers:
1928, 9 mars, Levallois, pesage des motos du Paris-Nice, Dalest sur B.S.A. 350 cmc, le héros du jour (on est pas à 92 ans près...) en 1928 sur une motocyclette à la page(!) on commande la machine grâce à tout un tas de commandes, sur le guidon, à droite, on a le levier du frein avant, les deux manettes du carbu (l'ouverture du boisseau et le réglage de l'air, la poignée tournante est loin d'être adoptée partout et surtout par tous... le motocycliste d’alors est déjà conservateur) sur le guidon, à gauche, on a le levier d'embrayage (souvent couplé avec une pédale à gauche) le lève-soupape (ou décompresseur) et la manette de réglage de l'avance. Avec les pieds on freine à droite et on débraye à gauche et avec tout ça on change les vitesses avec le levier à droite du réservoir en lâchant le guidon soit avec la main gauche en débrayant du pied gauche tout en maintenant les gaz avec la main droite, soit avec la main droite en débrayant avec la main gauche... il existe aussi des standards exotiques (ou poétique) avec les Indian ou Henderson mais passons... on peut aussi y rajouter une manette pour l'avertisseur, une pompe coup-de-poing pour envoyer une bonne giclée d'huile en plus de la pompe qu'on peut aussi régler en roulant.
Là le gars part pour aller de Paris à Nice, et on en connait pleins qui ne le ferons jamais, même avec leurs reines de la Gelände et de la Strasse, il ne s'agit pas d'une promenade, mais de la compèt. à la rude. Pour ceux qui n'aurons pas saisi, il manque quelques trucs sur le guidon et dans la manche de Dalest. Je vous laisse imaginer... en plus sa brèle c'est pas rien, une machine culbutée bien moins docile qu'une M20, en tout cas moi, du coup, je relativise à donf et malgré mes petits bobos, ça va bien, merci.
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