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Faster, leaner, lighter

£9270 Flyweight Italian superbike

The name of this new bike from Italian bike maker Wilier Triestina translates into English as ‘streamlined’ and it’s exactly that. Taking the aero-optimised Cento 10 PRO as inspiration, Wilier has slimmed things down and used the lightweight carbon lessons learned from its ground-breaking Zero models, while doing something interesting with the tube shapes. On most aero road machines, the frame tubing is constructed around kammtail designs. A kammtail tube is a truncated airfoil; think of the cross-section of an aircraft wing with the tail of

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