I do not know if the advertising and marketing division at Wilier knew we had been on account of see three different new bikes on the Critérium du Dauphiné – these being a brand new Canyon Aeroad, a brand new Pinarello Dogma F, and a brand new Trek Madone/Emonda – however regardless, releasing its new machine the week earlier than the Dauphiné was an amazing transfer. It picked up the headlines with out competitors, whereas the whole lot new on the Dauphine nearly turns into so noisy that it’s not possible to chop by way of, and that’s with out factoring in Unbound Gravel and the very fact we’ve noticed one other new iteration of SRAM Red this weekend.
Roaming the pits on the Dauphiné, placing collectively a bumper tech gallery, and making an attempt laborious (typically unsuccessfully) to not garner the ire of assorted press officers, the nice of us at Groupama-FDJ gave me 5 minutes alone with this as-yet-unreleased new bike.
Thanks to a profitable paint scheme that disrupts the eyeliner, it hides its secrets and techniques effectively, and in reality, I don’t know precisely what it’s. Nothing has been homologated for Wilier by the UCI since 2022, so there aren’t any clues there.
It seems much less aerodynamic than the model’s Filante aero bike, and whereas it is not possibly fairly as spindly because the Zero SLR, it’s actually the bike it’s most much like, so if it’s going to be a direct substitute I think it’ll be for that.
Whatever it’s, we are able to nonetheless have a very good previous nostril about it intimately.
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