Ancillotti Factory is proud to announce World Cup downhill team for 2009.
The newly Formed Ancillotti Doganaccia racing team, a professional downhill and 4X team established by Ancillotti Bicycles and partner Doganaccia 2000.
The Team will compete in the UCI World Cup, World Championships, some European races, Italian series, Italian championship.
The team consists of the following riders:
Wyn Masters
22 years old from New Zealand. 2009 Oceania Downhill Elite Silver Medalist and 29th in first 2009 WC round in South Africa. Wyn will race DH and some 4X races.
Wyn's Blog
Brook MacDonald
Junior from New Zealand. 2009 NZ Dual Slalom Champs Junior Men 1st - 2009 NZ Downhill Champs U19 Men 1st - 5th World Championship 2008 in Italy;
Petra Bernhard
29 years old. 2007 and 2008 Austrian Champion, 2008 European Silver Medalist;
Petra in actions at Semmering
Francesco Petrucci - junior, from Italy
Francesco
Leonardo Piccini - junior, from Italy
Swiss brothers Patrick, Elite, and Lucas, junior, Meyer will be supported by Switzerland importer - ANT, which is the UCI code of the Team, is based in Tuscany, Italy at Ancillotti's Factory and with its partner Doganaccia 2000 is able to provide a place with a lift where riders can train when not at a race. Riders will ride Ancillotti's DH weapon Tomaso DHP for downhill and Scarab 4X.
Tomaso DHP
Team is supported by:
Doganaccia 2000
Ufo Plast
Formula brakes
Landini Automobili
NZride.com
Maxxis
Campabros
San Marco Saddles
Blog of the team: Ancillotti Doganaccia Racing Team- Factory website: Ancillotti
When the the rear wheel is going through it's travel, the shock is extending. On this Ancillotti however, the shock is not extending, it's compressing just like pretty much all other DH suspension systems. What they call a "pull shock" is actually not referring to the shock itself, but it is describing its swing arm to rocker arm relationship.
This allows a lower barycenter and reduce the weight of all the linkage more than the directionally advantage of the rear wheel
Ancillotti motorcycles patented the system in the 1980 as first in the market (they invented it) nowadays almost all motorcycles adopt this system as the best.
...the bikes are not very pretty, but good one for N.Z.!