{"id":25093,"date":"2017-02-16T17:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/bianchi-aquilotto\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T11:49:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T09:49:52","slug":"bianchi-aquilotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/bianchi-aquilotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Bianchi, 1953, Aquilotto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bianchi “Aquilotto”, 1953, Italy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

During the fascist regime the factory founded by\u00a0Edoardo Bianchi<\/strong>\u00a0reached its peak and the company is called to account many orders from the government. The factories had been heavily bombed though (like Ducati’s) and starting over is difficult. The Brand is still associated to quality and reliable products and the new products try to exploit this.
\nAmong them there’s a motorised bicycle, studied to house a 45cc engine, called\u00a0Aquilotto<\/strong>\u00a0that places between the auxiliary engines and the moped. In fact it keeps “the essential traits of a standard bicycle<\/strong> with the addition of an engine to remove the driver’s muscular strain”, as the advertisement said.
\nThe Aquilotto is simple yet elegant and becomes a competitor to the French Velosolex<\/strong>.\u00a0 The price is definitely higher than a simple auxiliary engine, but offers a complete product so you don’t need to own a bicycle. The fuel consumption is similar to the other 2 strokes<\/strong> of the time, with a liter of\u00a05% mixture<\/strong> you can travel for more than 80 km<\/strong>.
\nAvailable in different versions (normale, sport and gran lusso<\/strong>) it was sold at about 70.000 lire<\/strong><\/p>\n

Museo Nicolis houses a rich exhibit of Bianchi\u00a0bicycles<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0motorcycles and\u00a0cars<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n