Get to know some of the "less known" Italian mountain bikes manufacturers

Italy has been known for having great engineers and equipment designers and their bicycles industry it´s an good exemple. For several years Italian mountain bike brands were the only ones, besides Canada and USA, to produce high quality mountainbikes with atractive design and technological innovations which are still used today.

Nowadays, the Italian bicycle manufacture business it´s still on the vanguard of the world industry and the number of new marques has never stop growing. There are some Italian bikes companies which most of the world still haven´t met, sometimes because they are to “young” others because they make very specific products.

MDE bikes - Handcrafted in Italy

They design and make each and single piece with an extremely high attention for quality. Their main products are high quality custom mountain bike frames specific for each type of use: dirt bikes, cross country, downhill, freeride, enduro and all mountain. They also make high standard mountainbike components.

All parts are CNC machined at their headquarters in Alpignano, Torino, Italy.

They are in this business first of all for passion. For this they spend a lot of time to control the quality of each single part. Perfection is their target.

Team riders submit MDE products to strenuous and prolonged tests. It´s believed that this is the best way to develop framesets and components. Of course, technology is not everything; a good industrial design it´s also very important.

Due to this factor it´s possible to achieve a final result which marries some sort of technical excellence to "Italian" style.

MDE bikes riders - Jack Bisi and Thomas Defleurian - in Deux Alps @ Mountain of Hell competition.

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ANCILLOTTI CYCLES

They are specialists in "ready to race" full suspension mountain bike and they make complete bicycles for cross country, four cross, freeride and downhill race.

Each year the Ancillotti models are improved and evolved by the continuous feedback obtained through direct participation in races, a distinguishing element in the Ancillotti legacy, be it motorcycles or bicycles.

Their production is targeted at customers that don't settle for mass produced products but who want a reliable, exclusive product of maximum efficiency and performance and 100% Italian.

Joe Smith's (Team GB and Team Ancillotti UK) final run on the Sunday of the 2007 World MTB Downhill Championships in Fort William, Scotland.