Lenny Martinez raced to victory on the Mercan’Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes yesterday on what seems to be an as-yet-unknown Wilier race bike.
The French rider triumphed towards his breakaway associate Clément Berthet (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) aboard a largely black Wilier body we do not recognise, with loads of white graphics. The bike is clearly totally different when in comparison with the opposite Groupama-FDJ staff bikes.
The case for this being a model new bike was closely strengthened due to a Wilier Triestina Instagram citing a twenty fifth of June ‘drop’ date. As nicely as a Twitter / X submit with a number of extra photos of the bike.
On the idea of this submit from the model, we really feel pretty assured we are able to count on a model new street mannequin to be introduced by Wilier towards the tip of June; simply in time for the Tour de France.
The run-up to the Tour de France and Dauphine has been a first-rate time for brand spanking new bikes and tools to look over the past a number of years. We shall be snooping on the Critérium du Dauphiné which commences on Sunday and can cowl as a lot new tech as we are able to discover.
What may the brand new bike be?
Team riders have the Wilier Zero SLR and Filante SLR street fashions to select from. The Filante is the extra aero-focused bike while the Zero SLR focuses on light-weight.
From what we are able to inform from the restricted photos, this new bike does not look hyper aero and seems to seem like a bit extra of an all-rounder or lightweight-focused bike. We count on it to exchange the Zero SLR, however it could even sit alongside it.
One of the obvious factors is the dearth of the highest tube/seat tube ‘step’ that’s current on the Zero mannequin. The new bike additionally appears to have wider fork legs, barely dropped seatstays and in a different way profiled chain stays and high tube, when in comparison with the Zero. All instructed it appears to be like pretty ‘regular’ in comparison with a number of the extra outlandish designs available on the market.
Aside from a number of the body design variations, Martinez was driving the bike constructed up with a seemingly inventory staff construct of Dura-Ace Di2 groupset and wheel construct, Continental GP5000 tyres, Prologo saddle and bar tape and what appears to be like to be the Wilier Fialnte built-in handlebar and stem unit.
The body options Wilier logos, however there may be loads of white detailing current on the black body, much like the design BMC used to attract the eyes away from key options on its then-unreleased bike final yr, which turned out to be the Teammachine R.
We will replace this story with extra information and data once we obtain it.