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The Aermacchi Harley Davidson Ala d\u2019Oro is something of an enigma.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an Italian bike with an American name that was honed to perfection by a British importer. It\u2019s also a bike out of its time; one built with a highly-developed 350cc air-cooled single-cylinder engine at a time when Japanese multi-cylinder bikes were beginning to dominate grand prix racing.<\/p>\n

Andy Webb\u2019s gorgeous 1969 example is one of just 13 built that year \u2013 all of which came to the UK via Syd Lawton of Lawton and Wilson. The Southampton firm acted as a tuning shop, customising the \u2018Lawton Aermacchis\u2019 to their owner\u2019s requirements and developing them for various forms of racing.<\/p>\n

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Unlike the road-going Ala Rossa, the Ala d\u2019Oro was a pure track bike, weighing in at just 95kg and revving to more than 8,500rpm. The vast majority of the 74 examples built between 1967 and 1972 went to club-level racers, although a handful were raced by the factory, including one that came third in the 1968 350cc World Championship in the hands of Kelvin Carruthers.<\/p>\n

The bike that you see here was supplied to Scottish racer Ronnie Niven in January 1970 for the princely sum of \u00a3757. He continued to race it until 1996, competing in four Isle of Man TTs and no less than 13 Manx Grands Prix along the way. His best result on the island was a 10th place in the 1982 Formula 3 TT, finishing in 1 hour 48 minutes 7.2 seconds and averaging 83.75 mph.<\/p>\n

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Current owner Andy came across the bike almost by accident. \u201cWe were on the lookout for an Aermacchi road bike for my wife when I spotted the ad for this one,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI knew I wanted it, but I didn\u2019t have a clue what I\u2019d do with it. I thought I might restore it as an ornament and put it in my conservatory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite dabbling in motorcycle racing as a teenager, Andy had spent most of the last 40-or-so years riding large tourers. The Aermacchi now sits beside half a dozen bikes, including two Harleys, a Ducati Darmah and a Motoconfort. Donning a pair of leathers again to compete on track simply didn\u2019t feature in his original plans, but that would all change.<\/p>\n

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First of all, he had to get it running. A quick inspection when he bought the bike had revealed that it hadn\u2019t run for many years. The engine wouldn\u2019t turn over because the oil had congealed inside the crankcase and the gearbox was ceased solid. This was to prove just the start of his problems, but fortunately Andy, who runs an engineering business, had the skills to do most of the work himself.<\/p>\n

It soon became apparent that he had something a little bit special. \u201cWhen I took the gear cluster out I realised it had six ratios, which was a bit odd as it\u2019s supposed to be a five-speed bike,\u201d he recalls. After a bit of investigation, it transpired that the crankcase was one of a batch that had been copied from the works grand prix bikes. These had a different bearing arrangement that allowed them to run a six-speed gearbox. However, a number of the crankcases had been rejected following an issue with the machining process and it appeared that Andy\u2019s had been part of the failed batch. Fortunately, he was able to borrow one of the correct crankcases to measure and use as a guide to re-machine his own. The result was that he now had a six-speed Grand Prix-spec crankcase.<\/p>\n

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Andy\u2019s bike also benefited from a number of improvements, including an enlarged big end bearing, a much more aggressive cam, a shorter connecting rod with a revised cylinder barrel (to reduce inertia while maintaining the same stroke) and a grand prix-style exhaust. This all adds to the interest, but it also makes the Ala d\u2019Oro something of a temperamental thoroughbred, Andy explains: \u201cIt\u2019s an entirely handbuilt engine. Nothing fits off the shelf and everything has to be adjusted by hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following a complete mechanical restoration, Andy set about finding somewhere to run the bike. \u201cI just wanted to say I\u2019d done it, basically,\u201d he recalls. \u201cBut once I\u2019d stripped it down and ridden it for the first time, I thought \u2018this is incredible\u2019. I knew I had to find some way to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Andy decided to have a go at sprinting. He ended up winning his class in the NSA\u2019s Southern Championship in 2017. It was around this time that he came to know Dick Linton of the Classic Motorcycle Racing Club who had worked with Syd Lawton in-period.<\/p>\n

\u201cDick said \u2018if you want to get that thing going properly you\u2019ve got to take it out on the track. Go round some bends on it and see what it does\u2019. I told him that I was too old and the bike was too loud, but Dick was having none of it and he persuaded me to sign up for a \u2018noisy\u2019 day at Donington,\u201d says Andy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere were so many emotions coming as I lined up in the pit lane. I never thought I\u2019d get a pair of leathers on at my age, let alone ride around a track again. The first two or three laps were utterly terrifying. It\u2019s quite an intimidating circuit if you haven\u2019t ridden it before, particularly on a new bike. I managed to do five of the seven sessions then called it a day because it was so physically tiring. That inspired me to get fitter and since then I\u2019ve lost four stone. I looked like the Michelin Man when I first did it. I\u2019ve since done quite a few track days and got to know a lot of people with similar bikes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The little 350cc single makes just under 40bhp at the crank. That doesn\u2019t sound like a great deal, but at half the weight of a modern superbike, it gives the Ala d\u2019Oro sprightly performance. The fastest Andy has seen so far is 107mph on the runway at Dunsfold, but it\u2019s said to be good for over 120mph with the right gearing. \u201cThe first time I rode it I could have sworn it was a 500 rather than a 350,\u201d he says. \u201cIt pulls right from low revs and from about 6,000rpm it takes on a life of its own. It\u2019ll rip past a Honda 400.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He starts the bike up in his back garden to give us a taste of what\u2019s involved. The starting procedure itself is somewhat unusual. Due to the use of a vertically-mounted carb on a horizontal engine you have to lean it over to the left hand side to fill the float chamber; this results in the carb flooding, which means you then need to start it straight away or roll it back onto the right side to stop the petrol running out. \u201cHow it\u2019s never caught fire I haven\u2019t got a clue. I always have a fire extinguisher next to it when I start it up,\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no kick start, so Andy uses a homebuilt roller starter (\u201coriginally they would have been push started, but I\u2019m too old to mess around with that,\u201d he jokes). What follows is spectacular. The Aermacchi coughs for a second then fires with a deep percussive sound that\u2019s like a single-cylinder motocrosser mixed with a pneumatic drill. It sounds quite unlike anything else. And that seems rather fitting for this machine.<\/p>\n

Even when it was new, the Ala d\u2019Oro was something of an oddity; the last of a dying breed. But thanks to Andy this one is now back on the track where it belongs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ronnie<\/a><\/figure>\n

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