Andrea Garella is a young 16 year old rider from Turin, Italy. He competes in the Superenduro races in Italy in the Cadet category and decided to give the French Enduro Cup a try this week-end in Val d'Isere. Andrea is supported by Ancillotti, a bike brand from Turin. The Ancillotti bikes are handmade in Italy and Andrea's Scarab is set up by Tomaso Ancillotti (the boss) himself. Here are some details of the Scarab Evo 29 2018 aluminium bike mounted with a specific Antillotti rear shock, a Formula Selva fork, some Formula Cura breaks and the Formula Linea 3 wheels. Italia power!
Andrea Garella is proud to represent an Italian bike brand.
Originally from the East of France in Giromagny, 27-year-old Debi used to be part of the Giromagny Enduro Team, well known for their original and funny videos. She traveled a lot around the world and is now teaching mountain biking in Annecy and is supported by Juliana Bicycles, SRAM, Ion, Smith and Slicy. She rides the Juliana Roubion C 2018 (150mm rear, 160mm front). The new 2019 Roubion is now available with a new suspension system.
Very true. They take their bike building very seriously in Taiwan, and would never let such sloppy welds out the door. Most of their welders have had to apprentice for a year or two before working on finished goods, and have laid down literally thousands of cleaner beads than that before being allowed to weld production frames.
...to be fair though, the Italian welder did a pretty good job for only having one free hand. His dominant hand was obviously occupied with simultaneously smoking a cigarette and talking to his mother on his phone, (ZING!) so it's pretty good under the circumstances. (...shows self out. closes door.)
A bad weld, you shout "EEHHHHHH!" and wave your hands around.
A good weld, you shout "EEHHHHHH!!!!" and wave your hands around.
You can see how it's tough to learn.
I'm not a welder but they are either very lucky or you don't really know what you are talking about.
Also, every part on that bike that can be made in Italy is. They take pride in supporting their local community and businesses.
voi a mano non sapete neanche farvi le seghe
Am I mixing everything I read about this and makes everything confused because I did not understand it ?
I would not ride that Ancillotti.
It's a shame . I'm bored of plastic bikes.
I was excited about this bike at first.
I don't mind large chunky welds(to a point)
If what I'm swing is correct this frame is a failure.
But overall it's bit weird, as if it was at 95% quality, lacking just those last 5% to make it a piece of art.
Also the rider seems to have rather short legs, so the slopping goes really low and it may explain why the bike looks a bit weird, with just a bit less slopping and with that bend support tube flowing more with the toptube/seattube it would look much better.
The swingarm pulls the link which the compresses the shock like normal.
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