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Capacity : 500
Model : P 515 World Records
Production : 1934 - 1934
Category : (R) Racing Record

PEUGEOT

500cc P 515 "World Records" -1934

Change of tactics

Peugeot hadn't built any bikes over 500cc since 1920. Then, days before the opening of the 1933 Paris Salon, Eugêne Peugeot personally revealed the new 500cc overhead valve P515 to the press. A year later, this machine set nine new world speed records.

Complex Unit-Construction Engine

For the new range of "high-powered motorcycles" (which included the 515), Peugeot designed a totally new unit construction engine that was far removed from the traditional simplicity of the power units built by the Peugeot motorcycle division's Valentigney factory.

Record Session

It took a couple of helical pinions of questionable reliability to drive the longitudinal camshaft and the magneto, a pair of gears for the oil pump, a chain to drive the dynamo, a second chain for the kick-starter and a third chain for the primary transmission. The power unit suffered from being oversize and overweight. After many internal modifications, it became so reliable that it was feasible to think of using it to set world speed records to promote this model. In 1934, thePahin brothers, Camille Narcy and Pedro Verchere, were at Montlhery with a lightweight 515 fitted with a special fuel tank, which quickly began to leak. As torrential rain fell, the lights failed. evertheless, the engine kept running, and Peugeot set nine world records, of which the 24 hour (at an average of 73.8 mph) and 3000 kilometers (73 .4 mph) were the most outstanding.

SPECIFICATIONS

Engine: 495cc (81x96mm) air-cooled singlecylinder four-stroke; gear-pump forced lubrication

Power Rating: 22 hp @ 5000 rpm

Valves: overhead

Fuel System: carburetor

Transmission: 2-speed (2nd and 4th only), chain final drive

Suspension: P108 pressed-steel girder forks (front); rigid (rear)

Brakes: drum (rear)

Wheels: 21 inch wire (front & rear)

Weight: 298 lb

Maximum Speed: 93 mph

If it hadn 't been for the problems with the special 5.8 gallon tank, the 515 record-breaker could have gone further than 1770 miles in 24 hours.





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Il sera progressivement mis à jour ici et toute information complémentaire est la bienvenue sur info@moto-collection.org.

Cette documentation unique, qui constitue sans doute l'encyclopédie la plus exhaustive jamais écrite sur l'histoire de la moto, a été réalisée avec l'assistance de nombreux spécialistes dont principalement Didier Ganneau, Christophe Gaime, Mick Woollett, Jean Goyard, Bernard Salvat, Christian Rey, Yves Campion, Helmut Krackowizer, Michael Dregni, Michel Montange, etc. que je remercie ici.

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