The last time I rode and reviewed a Wilier was a whole nine years ago – and what a difference nine years makes. Governments have fallen, borders have been redrawn, and as a species our brightest and best spent time putting Katy Perry in Space. And then there’s the bikes. How does the Wilier Cento10 Air I tested in 2016 compare to the Cento family’s successor, the Filante? Well, fairly favourably.
That bike had one-piece bars and partially hidden cables because, yes, that bike had rim brakes. It cost about $8,000 in Ultegra spec, weighed 7.51kg, and tyre width was a progressive 28mm. But most favourably of all, it was aero-fied in a way you’d recognise today – dropped seatstays with wing-like shoulders, deep head tube with hourglass profile, truncated…