'Olympia' Pull Shock Full Suspension

[mrkawasaki]

http://cgi.ebay.de/olympia-ancillotti-p ... 500wt_1156

New name to me...

 

[biglev]

i have heard of ancillotti as i have had one of their DH bike and they used to make Motor bikes. They had a whoel team runnign up at Atonhill DH in the early 00-ties. Not heard of Olympia apart for the exhibition hall and a girl i once met!

Oddly enought they like ancillotti say pull shock where on both models they are compression shock, soem are even their own shocks.

Cheers
Pete

 

[pete_mcc]

Didn't Ffion Griffiths ride for ancillotti? And also thought that it's a push shock, not a pull...

 

[Arran]

...it's a push shock, not a pull...

X 2. Nice low centre of gravity though...

 

[maro]

Olympia is a well known bicycle manufacturer in Italy
Ancillotti is a small brand located close to Florence
Ancillotti was a well reputed manufacturer of high end motorcycles for off road competition races.
Remarkable is the rear suspension design (pull shock) they first developed in 1981 – before it was utilized by the big brands and became so usual on any motorbike
Because of the collapsing off road market they stopped motorcycle business – whilst the application they made for patenting the pull-shock system did not still come to its completion

Pull shock name does not refer to the shock itself - but to the way the links between the components work - so to keep virtually non-existing all the tolerances between the components themselves

 

[maro]

They started business again in the oncoming "gravity" bikes (verry early '90)

This bike has a travel of around 100 mm front and back
Alberto Ancillotti is the man that on the left is setting the front suspension (prototype)