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TRICYCES – DE DION BOUTON (2021)
Run Time: 6:23
A Film By: Hoxton Moto
Key Cast: Nick Pellett, De Dion Bouton Club UK
FILM MAKERS
Hoxton Moto is a film production company that produces films about all aspects of motorcycling and the occasional hot rod for its YouTube channel. As well as making films for their channel, they also get their hands dirty and build bikes which have been exhibited at the Bike Shed Show, Revolution Show (Hastings) and get regular features in magazines and on-line sites.
SUMMARY
A fascinating insight into the now rare De Dion-Bouton Tricycles.
Nick Pellett from the De Dion Bouton Club UK passionately describes the ingenuity, delevopment and surprising impact of these machines – produced in the late 1800’s. De Dion Bouton’s pioneering engine design – as seen as seen in these tricycles – was pivotal in the evolution of the combustion engines in the motoring industry. De Dion-Bouton was a French automobile manufacturer operating from 1883 to 1953. The company was founded by the Marquis Jules-Albert de Dion, Georges Bouton and Charles Trépardoux.
Filmed at the famous Brooklands Circuit, UK
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Once again … those damn French …. just look at the engineering of these things … years if not decades ahead of the coming automotive and motorcycle industry … and definitely decades ahead of the US BS being touted as so far ahead of its time .
Kind of a shame these didn’t continue on …. cause here we are … making M/C based trikes the size of small SUV’s .. when we could have the likes of these brought into the 21st century .
As far as the peanut gallery thats might arise poo pooing trikes ? Get a clue … they serve a purpose … keep people riding … and bring profits to what otherwise is becoming a dying industry …. here in the not so US of A
Damn French … like it or not on more fronts than one … they’ve been kicking our collective @$&es for centuries