THE BIKE THAT time forgot
IMAGINE the same individual racing both cars and bikes at Grand Prix level on alternate weekends with equal success. It’d be like Valentino Rossi racing a Ferrari to beat Hamilton and Vettel this week, then swapping to his Yamaha the next against Marquez and Vi?ales! But that's what Tazio Nuvolari did back in the 1920s, taking it in turns to win the Italian GP on four wheels for Alfa Romeo and on two wheels for Bianchi, year after year. This is his bike.
These days known for bicycles, Bianchi was a major player in the early Italian motorcycle industry. Although involved in road racing from before WW1, it was not until 1924 that they produced the machine which would win 95 races on European racetracks over the next six years; the single-cylinder 350cc Freccia Celeste.
The ‘Sky Blue Arrow’ was a significant machine in motorcycling’s technical evolution, the first in the world to feature a bevel-driven
