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VANCOUVER — The motorcycle stored in the basement of a west ancillary Vancouver goldsmith boutique was coated with dust from added than eight decades of storage.
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W | Vintage Harley Tank DecalsThe 1926 Paragon-Villiers single-cylinder motorcycle had chock-full active in 1931 — at the alpha of the Great Depression. The botheration was best acceptable an agitation condenser abortion — a 20 cent allotment in those days. The buyer may not accept accepted how to fix it and may not accept had the funds to accept it fixed.
A adolescent club affiliate had purchased some old motorcycle genitalia from the goldsmith and mentioned at a affair there was an old “flat tanker” in the man’s basement. In the 1920s, afore motorcycles were able with saddle tanks straddling the frame, collapsed gas tanks were afraid beneath the frame.
The well-preserved 1926 Paragon Villiers motorcycle that spent 83 years in accumulator bare a new agitation condenser to already afresh biking the streets of Vancouver.
Despite misgivings that the old bike would be afar or not salvageable, Terry Frounfelker went for a look. Aback he began wiping off the decades of dust, he saw “Paragon-Villiers” corrective on the gas catchbasin — a architect he wasn’t accustomed with. But a decal on the advanced column bent his attention: ‘The Paragon — Accumulated in Vancouver, B.C.’
The motorcycle was a time abridged from addition era, it was complete and in amazing condition. He bought it on the spot. He bashed the agent and gearbox and, aback he got the agent turning, apparent there was no atom from the magneto. The genitalia purchased from England, including a new condenser, some magneto parts, a new atom bung and agitation wire amount beneath than $100. With some gas and oil, forth with lubrication of all affective parts, the old motorcycle was kick-started aback to life. Replacements were sourced for the aboriginal tires that had addle off and the motorcycle was aback on the alley in Vancouver for the aboriginal time aback 1931.
Paragon-Villiers motorcycles were accumulated by Fred Deeley Motorcycles, amid at 539 West Broadway in Vancouver. A London Drugs abundance occupies the armpit today. Fred Deeley had acclimated his acquaintance as a British bike artisan to accessible his business in 1917. He acquired the Canadian administration rights for Harley-Davidson, Triumph and Paragon-Villiers motorcycles.
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Harley Tank Decal | eBay | Vintage Harley Tank DecalsThis dust-covered Paragon Villiers motorcycle accumulated at Vancouvers Fred Deeley Motorcycles in 1926 had been stored for 83 years.
Paragon Motorcycles had gone out of business in Britain in 1921. The Paragon-Villiers was basically a Sun motorcycle anatomy congenital up with apparatus from added manufacturers.
Deeley had these apparatus alien from Britain in crates and his mechanics would accumulate them in Vancouver. Sun Motorcycles amount 27 pounds in Britain — the agnate of about $50.
This provided bargain and reliable transportation.
The Villiers has a two-stroke agent active on a admixture of gasoline and oil. It is amazing to see this 89-year-old motorcycle alpha on the aboriginal bang and get on the alley in a billow of dejected smoke.
“I’ve gotten it up to 50 kilometres an hour, but it doesn’t do able-bodied with hills,” Frounfelker reports.
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Fuel Tank Emblem or Decal - Harley Davidson Forums | FLH Renewal ... | Vintage Harley Tank DecalsTerry Frounfelker says affairs the 1926 Paragon Villiers motorcycle stored for 83 years was like acceptable the lottery.
Starting the agent requires a alternation of accomplish alpha with axis the gas petcock on, black the float to acquiesce gas to flood the carburetor, ambience the burke batten to acquiesce gas into the cylinders, authoritative abiding the two-speed manual is in aloof and again bang starting the engine. It starts appropriate abroad and runs smoothly.
Stopping the agent involves activating a compression absolution valve central the cylinder.
“People I accept let booty it for a ride get to acquaintance what bodies had to do to ride a motorcycle over the rutted clay anchorage that were accepted aback then,” the appreciative buyer says. “I feel like I won the action award this thing.”
‘Paragon Villiers’ was hand-lettered on both abandon of the ammunition catchbasin on the 89-year-old motorcycle.
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mysterious Tank Decal - Harley Davidson Forums | Vintage Harley Tank DecalsThere are no advanced brakes and a awkward rear braking system.
”The anchor on this apparatus is added of a advancement than fact,” Frounfelker says.
Motorcycle historian Terry Rae marvels at the action of the motorcycle “basement find.”
“If you go way back, there were three or four hundred manufacturers architecture motorcycles and bisected of them acclimated Villiers engines,” the now retired administrator of Vancouver’s Deeley Motorcycle Museum notes.
Frounfelker has become so absorbed in the actual aspects of his 1926 Paragon-Villiers motorcycle that he is now autograph a book about it.
Alyn Edwards is a archetypal car enthusiast and accomplice in Peak Communicators, a Vancouver-based accessible relations company. aedwards@peakco.com
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