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FB-Mondial 250
Bialbero
This exquisite 1956 FB-Mondial:
the very machine that took Tarquinio Provini to second place in the 1957 250cc
Grand Prix world championship. Mondial was a very small Milanese firm, much
smaller than Moto Guzzi, but it made a name for itself through competition.
(The “FB” stood for “Fratelli
Boselli”, the family that owned the company.) Alfonso Drusiani designed the
engine of this bike, complete with a bevel drive for the twin overhead cams,
although Fabio Taglioni had recently worked for Mondial. For the 1957 season, a
new engine with gear-driven cams was installed in Mondial’s GP racers—but
Provini stuck with the more reliable bevel design in his own race bike. After
1960, Mondial stopped making complete motorcycles in-house, and the company
changed ownership several times.
Photographer
Phil Aynsley
Source
bikeexif |
