English Manual Translations

[Derek Wardell]

There’s a lot of discussion in this group regarding English language translations of Italian manuals.  It’s the first question I asked when I bought my Falcone Sport in May this year and was a bit disappointed that these did not seem to exist.

I had the good fortune to bump into a chap called Dave Thomas in a pub in the Cotswolds a few weeks ago.  Dave was very interested in my V7 Sport and we got chatting.  When he found out I had a Falcone he offered to send me a number of documents which he’d had translated from Italian into English in 2002 by a friend of his Laurie North.  He stressed that while Laurie was a perfect Italian speaker, he was no motorcyclist, so some of the technical terms may have lost accuracy in translation.

Anyway, a couple of days later hard copies of the documents arrived.  It’s a pity I don’t have them in Word docs, but I copied them all into PDF format.  Dave stressed that he was very happy to share these documents around.  The problem I have is that they are very heavy so I don’t really want to send them out. individually.  Can someone on the forum suggest a way of storing them online so that they can be downloaded by members of the group?  I’m not really an IT enthusiast in this respect.  I'm happy to send a PDF copy of each doc to someone who can do this.

What I have is the following, all beautifully presented and very interesting:

Falcone Factory Riders Handbook

Astore full workshop manual

Mario Colombo’s book Falcone translation

Some notes about the difference between Sport and Turismo Falcones

Moto Cicclismo d’Epoca magazine article translation

Some notes on Ignition timing.

Cheers,

Derek

[Miles Carnahan]

Hi Derek,

Send them my way and I’ll host them for people to download.

I’m very excited to read these in English!

Thank you for sharing these!

I should mention that Patrick Hayes had sent me an email about these documents about a month ago but I failed to do anything about it at the time.

Miles (list owner)

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[Derek Wardell]

Hi Miles,

OK I will email you the docs.  I've just realized that I have lost the original PDF copies as my computer was re-formatted last week.

However I did already forward some in compressed form and I've retrieved these.  If necessary I can probably get better quality copies made (the original are noticeably clearer).

Derek

[steven s.]

Having access to these files would be so helpful, I look forward to this generous offer materializing.

Steven 

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[ksteenst]

A friend of mine in the USA has a high speed scanner.  He scanned and loaded online my Lario manuals for me last year. I am sure if I get them to him he can create scanned, searchable, electronic copies. (I am based in Australia. He in Dallas, so a little inconvenient, but happy to pay for the postage to make this happen since the Astore has much in common with my Airone)

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[SED Sci]

If you want to make a PDF of hardcopies and don't have a scanner, you can take photos with a good digital camera and save them in a folder on your computer.  PDF making programs (Cute PDF and probably the one that now comes with the ms operating systems) will take all the photos in the folder in sequence and turn them into a single PDF document.  It will include all the photos in the folder, so make a new folder for each new document.  

The problem is that photos are large files and the resulting PDF can be HUGE!  The solution is to resize the photos, crop the photos, make lower resolution PDFs and choose black & white or gray-scale for your PDF.  It takes some experimentation and time to make a good readable product that is not too large.  If all else fails you can divide the document into several folders that become separate chapters.

I'd love to get copies of your translations.

[SED Sci]

My wife got tired of translating for me and showed me that a Google smart phone is a great translation tool.  

Open Google translate on the phone and it will use the camera to scan text and translate it to English.  When it's finished translating you can copy and paste the text into a Word doc or email and send it to yourself.  Given the mechanical context and the old fashioned language the translations usually need more interpretation, but it quickly puts you on the right track.  Small blocks of text or paragraph by paragraph seem to work best and masking other columns of text & captions prevents it from scrambling multiple columns.   (watch for scrambled text if scanning multiple columns or paragraphs)    With some practice you could probably translate a whole manual in a few hours!

[guzz...@aol.com]

when using your camera phone or other digital camera to take pictures reset them to a lower Kila Byte  setting and not mega byte setting for any email size photo documents beforehand. Don't worry about pixel sizes your computer screen will display them just fine ……….

Tim  

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[Sid Carr]

I too would love a copy if possible, thank you

[Marc Lomax]

If a Falcone 500 manual in English becomes available I would love to have one.

[Patrick Hayes]

I don't believe that one exists.

If you have some particular section you need translated then you only
need to ask the forum. There are several fluent Italian speakers who
participate here. You can get a reasonable facsimile by using Google
Translate. The problem is that the original Italian text is full of
technical words and idiomatic phrases which might not translate very
well by a machine.


Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[Sid Carr]

I'm hoping the Falcone manual will have information on the gearbox re-assembly especially on aligning the gear selector shaft when rebuilding the gearbox........and any tips on adjusting the gear selector linkage would be a bonus.
I rebuilt my engine/gearbox and despite adjusting the gear linkage every which way first gear is almost impossible to select.
I'm hoping the solution turns out to be an easy one, any chance?

[Patrick Hayes]

Well, you're in luck a little bit. I have already translated the
gearbox assembly and I'll send a copy of that text to you off-line.

As for the adjustment. Are you always moving the transmission as you
try to shift? Turn the wheel or remove the spark plug and have someone
turn the flywheel while you try to shift. If you remove the outer
detent selector parts, can you use any type of grasping tool to turn the
selector and reach all four gears?

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA