1154/5000Vintage motorcycle Bianchi Freccia Azzurra 500 Corsa.Brand: Bianchimodel: Blue Arrow 500 Corsacountry: Italy - Milanyear: 1939conditions: restoreddisplacement: 496 (bore and stroke 82 x 94)engine: single cylinder, four strokegearbox: separate four-speedEdoardo Bianchi, born in 1865, orphan raised by the "Martinitt" in Milan, made all the stages, none excluded, from the apprentice to the manufacturer of prestigious cars. He built bicycles, De Dion Bouton motor tricycles, introduced pneumatic tires invented by Dunlop into Italy, built motor bicycles and finally some of the most beautiful motorcycles in Italian production. Bianchi's name is forever linked to the glorious competitive season of the 1920s, when her motorcycles left very little space for competitors. Drivers like Alberto Ascari, Achille Varzi and Tazio Nuvolari drove them. The Blue Arrow was a project by the brilliant Mario Baldi and was the first to introduce the twin-shaft overhead distribution on a racing bike. The specimen reproduced in these pages was built only in three units. On one of these races Alberto Ascari ran.
