Italian Bicycles - 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 bicycle´s industry it is a good example. For several years Italian mountain bike brands were the only ones, besides Canada and USA, to produce high quality mountain bikes with attractive design and technological innovations which are still used today.

Nowadays, the Italian bicycle manufacture business it is still on the vanguard of the world industry and the number of new brands has never stop growing.

There are some Italian bikes companies which most of the world still have not met, sometimes because they are too “young” others because they make very specific products.

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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, free ride, enduro and all mountain. They also make high standard mountain bike 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 is believed that this is the best way to develop frame sets and components. Of course, technology is not everything; a good industrial design it is also very important.

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

MDE bikes rider - Jack Bisi.

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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 do not settle for mass produced products but who want a reliable, exclusive product of maximum efficiency and performance and 100% Italian.

Ancillotti Team ruled the Caldirola DH 2008 competition - Italian Downhill Championships.

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• MDE bikes

  High quality Mountain bikes handcrafted in Italy with great attention to design as well as performance.

• Ancillotti cycles

  Dedicated to mountain bike competitive racing, Ancillotti have a limited but highly specialized production to fulfill the needs of racing athletes.

• Atala

  Very complete catalog from kids bikes to MTB full suspension. (only in Italian)

• Bemmex bike

  Coming soon...

• Bianchi

  A name synonymous with cycling and great bicycles since 120 years.

• Bottecchia

  Passion, courage, enthusiasm, but mostly devotion and competency are the roots of Bottecchia success.

• Bressan bikes

  Bicycle passion since 1942. (only in Italian)

• Carraro cicli

  Progress means passion and commitment for 80 years. (only in Italian)

• Extralite

  Road and MTB components with focus on quality and lightweight.

• FRM bikes

  Great collection of bike frames and components with high quality standards.

• Hazard bikes

  High quality bikes. (only in Italian)

• Mathitech

  The power of knowledge takes its advantages by going back to the origin of the bicycle science. Titanium and carbon fiber bicycle frames.

• Monolite bikes

  Specialists in carbon fiber bike frames building with experience on the aeronautics industry.

• Ovam bikes

  Ovam works every day to build high quality 100% Italian bikes. (only in italian)

• Paduano racing

  ...customize your passion! Titanium and carbon fiber specialists. (only in Italian)

• Passoni

  Passoni has been designing and producing titanium bicycles since 1989, real works of art that are known and appreciated all over the world.

• Rig design

  High tech road and mountain bikes manufacture. (only in Italian)

• Scapin

  Costume-made frames for everyone using the ultimate technology.

• Shockblase

  Italian identity and style. (only in italian)

• Sintesi bikes (I removed the link because Google believes it can harm our computers... on your own risk - http://www.sintesibikes.com/)

  Italian company that first arrived on the scene to challenge the most famous manufacturers, in particular the American ones. With a wide product range (which now includes cross-country, downhill, road and BMX bikes).

• Slyway projects

  Slyway mission is guided by steady and intense passion, a powerful attitude toward innovation, design and quality.

• Turro

  Young brand that has from road bikes to Cross-country bikes.

• Viner

  Choose your style!

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