Lenny Martinez raced to victory on the Mercan’Tour Traditional Alpes-Maritimes yesterday on what seems to be an as-yet-unknown Wilier race bike.
The French rider triumphed in opposition to his breakaway accomplice 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 put up citing a twenty fifth of June ‘drop’ date. In addition to a Twitter / X put up with a number of extra photos of the bike.
On the premise of this put up from the model, we really feel pretty assured we will anticipate a model new street mannequin to be introduced by Wilier towards the top of June; simply in time for the Tour de France.
The run-up to the Tour de France and Dauphine has been a main time for brand spanking new bikes and tools to seem 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 will discover.
What might the brand new bike be?
Staff 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 will inform from the restricted photos, this new bike does not look hyper aero and seems to appear to be a bit extra of an all-rounder or lightweight-focused bike. We anticipate it to interchange the Zero SLR, however it could even sit alongside it.
One of the apparent factors is the dearth of the highest tube/seat tube ‘step’ that’s current on the Zero mannequin. The brand 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 informed it appears pretty ‘regular’ in comparison with a number of the extra outlandish designs available on the market.
Apart from a number of the body design variations, Martinez was using 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 the Wilier Fialnte built-in handlebar and stem unit.
The body options Wilier logos, however there’s loads of white detailing current on the black body, just 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’ll replace this story with extra information and data after we obtain it.
