Frera factory racing team scuderia corsa Frera 1927 Circuito del Lario photo

Description

A superb and rare photo of the highly successful Italian
Frera
motorcycle racing team of
1927
.
Frera was an Italian motorcycle factoy, founded by
Corrado Frera
,
The company started at the end of the 1800’s as a manufacturer of rubber bicycle accessories and went on to produce bicycles.
Frera
became active in motorcycle trade in the early 1900s and marketed their first motorcycle under the Frera name in 1906. The company was one of the leading Italian manufacturers till the 1950s, when motorcycle production ceased.
From very early on, Frera had a name to uphold in racing.
The highly innovative 500cc SS V4 model with 4 overhead valve was extremely successful in the 1920s. This machine is visible on the photograph as well.
What is thesedays very unknown, is the fact that during the 1910s and 1920s, Frera was by far the
biggest motorcycle manufacturer in the world
.
They made standard, luxurious and (extremely) sportive single and (V-)twin cylinder motorcycles that had an excellent reputation.
The famous Italian
Circuito
del
Lario
roadrace, during which this photograph was taken in 1927, was an extremely heavy race which was organized between 1921 and 1939.
The circuit consisted of public roads which were closed during the race.
The Circuito del Lario was located between the two legs of the mountainous
Lake
Como
in
Northern Italy
.
Its nickname the “ Italian T.T.” was definitely deserved. The circuit was no less then
22.7 miles
(
36.5 km
) long and counted a mind blowing amount of 300 curves! Of those
300, a
total of 50 were hairpins since also the famous Ghisallo mountain pass is part of the track!
The height difference between the lowest and the highest point of the circuit is
1,805 feet
(
550 metres
).
To cover that difference, the riders and the bikes have to cross besides the mountainous hairpins, also the many longer and shorter curves combined with shorter and longer straights.
And all of that combined with a gruelingly poor road surface.
This
non period
photo reflects a very interesting and historic piece of motorcycling and Frera history. Therefore it is printed in a nice large format of ca. 8 x 12" (ca. 20 x
30 cm
).
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