Italian Super Bike Heritage & Innovation: Wilier Triestina HQ Tour

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4 жыл бұрын

From concept to consumer, bike design has evolved to meet modern demands. Jon was invited out to the Wilier Triestina HQ to take a look at their distinctive heritage and takes a look at how they design and assemble their Italian super bikes.
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@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Which part of this did you find the most interesting?

@markj.a351 4 жыл бұрын

yes

@mastertony4334 4 жыл бұрын

Hey I Want To Join The GCN Cycling Club Can i Join Sir?

@tougenomikado 4 жыл бұрын

I can't get my mind off that beautiful copper paintwork!

@mastertony4334 4 жыл бұрын

@@tougenomikado Yeah Me Too

@tulsa6969 4 жыл бұрын

The painting process

@11-inch 4 жыл бұрын

Jon is my favorite presenter on youtube. Thumbs up for Jon.

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wei we think he's great too

@francescomorganti1 4 жыл бұрын

Wilier make me proud to be Italian

@guymorris6596 2 жыл бұрын

I like all Italian bikes and things cycling. I just bought a 2012 Masi Alare road bike for $240 here in Texas. She's Euro blue and white, 56 cm, aluminum frame, carbon fork, Shimano Sora 2 X 9 drivetrain and weighs 21.2 pounds complete. I've named her Sophia and can't wait for her to be delivered.

@nicolac.2964 4 жыл бұрын

I am riding a Wilier Triestina...I am italian (but leaving in Germany)...I was born and lived many years closer to Bassano del Grappa. It's great honor & pleasure watch this video. Well done!!

@JonCannings 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@RACCHIETTO 4 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: the "arrow" logo of the Wilier Triestina is actually called "alabarda" and it's the symbol of Trieste

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Great fact thanks for sharing

@ernestfrigelj2876 4 жыл бұрын

thank you

@dpricketti 4 жыл бұрын

what??? no mention of Giordana Cottur of Trieste

@SteveSUX2BU 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, that was heaps of fun.

@danmorgan7775 4 жыл бұрын

That admiral blue paint job made me drool a bit not gonna lie. Fascinating and well presented by Mr. Cannings!

@jackseph03 4 жыл бұрын

Jon: You forgot to mention why Magni has the inner tube in his teeth - connected to his bars. He was riding (uphill) with a broken collar bone and couldn't pull on the bars (or get out of the saddle, for that matter). He was also found not guilty, possibly incorrectly, of war crimes, as a supporter / member of the Italian fascists during WWII.

@patrickoshea9398 4 жыл бұрын

jackseph03 Yep, noticed it as well. Video had some nice graphics, but the commentary?? Not surprised really as Jon is someone who seems to only judge bikes by some vapid ‘photo rules’ - crank in the 3 o’clock/ valves at the 6 o’clock. Very shallow.

@calvinminer4365 4 жыл бұрын

His fascist politics are so sad, especially since Italian communists had liberated Trieste and many other northern Italian enclaves months before the US and Soviet troops had arrived. The communist workers had taken over factories from the generally fascist owners/bosses and either kicked them out on their bums or required them to take jobs on the shop floor in like everyone else. They also gave jobs to soldiers who had been disabled by war and who had been left to poverty under Italian capitalism/fascism. This all horrified the American generals when they finally arrived. I wouldn't be surprised if Willier's factory was one of these. All this was documented in the 1991 book by Noam Chomsky "Deterring Democracy."

@maxrevell3830 4 жыл бұрын

@@calvinminer4365 Wilier are not actually from Trieste, although I can't claim any knowledge of their politics

@augustlandmesser1520 4 жыл бұрын

@@calvinminer4365 In fact, Yugoslav Partisans liberated Trieste.

@brianford5643 4 жыл бұрын

@@patrickoshea9398 Very shallow? expected a bit more historical perspective? Perhaps a retrospective of fascism from Mussolini through WWII? Piss off and go to the history channel. It's GCN, and this was an interesting video.....about BIKES!!

@raditya1835 4 жыл бұрын

GCN HQ Tour!!

@SwiCyc 4 жыл бұрын

This!

@jonhh6918 4 жыл бұрын

Jon my favorite part was you walking us through the factory and the process. Great job mate !

@SeargentFirestone 4 жыл бұрын

You missed the most obvious reason they are producing in the far east: it's cheap. That is reason enough for bike companies to have their frames built over there.

@andrewy1983 4 жыл бұрын

Another reason why some of the Chinese make frames just as good as the big euro brands.

@fadenseiden 4 жыл бұрын

@@andrewy1983 you mean just as bad.

@WowRixter 4 жыл бұрын

People rail against China, but keep buying “Made in China”

@bicyclist2 4 жыл бұрын

I'd much rather pay for a bike made in the US or Europe.

@WowRixter 4 жыл бұрын

christdragon Same. Not always easy though

@nathanberry7445 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Love Wilier even more now.

@twainf 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant vid Jon, its great to learn about heritage paintwork schemes and how they keep their traditions.

@tameemz3595 2 жыл бұрын

The size aspect Claudio mentioned, and many articles mention is no joke. My size XL Cento10SL not only fits my 6'2 body like a glove. But is very aggressive while somehow maintaining a comfortable ride. Another very important factor to me is that the proportions are great, my XL Cento10 looks aesthetic and clean. Meanwhile my previous size 57.5(XL) Pinarello prince was Massive.

@brucesmith8178 4 жыл бұрын

I really love the Wilier Triestina designs and colors!

@spaizemunkie4397 4 жыл бұрын

One of the most interesting videos I've ever seen on KZfaq! Bravo GCN 👏 I really, really enjoyed watching this 🙏🙏🙏

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Marie

@youriverstraete4986 4 жыл бұрын

Music in the beginning and the wheel spinning is soooo satesfying 😎

@rrosomasa 4 жыл бұрын

yasssssssss!!!! that was on point

@juliancousins 4 жыл бұрын

Love my Wilier Cento 10 Air. Does everything really well.

@paulyd71 4 жыл бұрын

I like the way that Jon presents in aero mode. Elbows tucked in to avoid drag.

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Always efficient even at presenting

@christill 4 жыл бұрын

No one paints a bike like they do it seems like. That bronze and silver finish is stunning.

@anvilhead59 4 жыл бұрын

I want one. I just like how their bikes look. Que bella!

@rodrigormelo 4 жыл бұрын

Gotta love factory tours!

@markshriver6538 3 жыл бұрын

Glad UR back Jon. We missed U.

@djblanton 4 жыл бұрын

the way they build the bikes up was super to see. thx

@parryig 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers John, another nice vid. Cracking paint shop & prep area.

@MsFrogster1 4 жыл бұрын

Stunning bikes 🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

@bhumiriady 4 жыл бұрын

This is too cool, sexy and hyper nice for me! I can't resist the beauty of Wilier Triestina's bikes....

@qibble455 3 жыл бұрын

I miss those wonderfully sleek quill stems. Every manufacture had their own, So cool. Great video:)

@johnpotter4555 4 жыл бұрын

Regardless of anything else, Wilier make super nice bikes. Nice video Jon.

@chriswheaton2666 4 жыл бұрын

Great brand, great place to go to and very nice people the Gasteldello family!

@DickqPratama 4 жыл бұрын

AWESOME STUFF!

@Eduardo-bt1dz 4 жыл бұрын

I got 2 wiliers, one is 20 years old Alu, and the other is a cento 1air 2014 I really love these bikes , they run perfectly , i'd to have a cromovelato one

@aneczka2114 4 жыл бұрын

Man that blue and black paint is speaking to me.....the way they paint their bikes seems like such a high quality...

@gordonharker4705 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Jon love it.

@BikeRacingWithoutMercy 4 жыл бұрын

Really lovely video - thanks for producing!!

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, we enjoyed making it

@davidgoon1978 4 жыл бұрын

I own one cento 1 SR 2015.. like it really much, thinking of repainting it to the ramato color.. it has slightly angled top tube.. like most of the high end bike these days.. wilier rocks

@rotten2guts 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite road bike of all time

@cup_and_cone 4 жыл бұрын

I briefly had a Triestina...got the frame cheap from a mail order house, felt illegal paying so little. Bought it mostly for the name, wish I had kept it.

@chrislarosaacupuncture7783 2 жыл бұрын

Fabulous!

@jesusenriqueriveratellez531 4 жыл бұрын

More videos like this, please!

@owenchuarbx 4 жыл бұрын

Why not do a factory tour of B'Twin Village in Lillie?

@adiletm6659 4 жыл бұрын

Owen Chua good idea. GCN do it!!!

@mahiru20ten 4 жыл бұрын

Or maybe a factory tour of Chinese cycling components/bike manufacturers. I'd like for them to review groupsets like Microshift or Sensah too.

@papanino4415 4 жыл бұрын

Because you can buy b-twin bikes without taking out a bank loan. Where's their profit in convincing you to buy good quality, affordable bikes?

@abd360g5 4 жыл бұрын

Nice idea, I wanna see them do it!

@matprlz 4 жыл бұрын

Because they haven’t paid the £15,000 marketing fee

@MrELOIGOMES 4 жыл бұрын

MASTERPIECE...!

@hjshoon5244 4 жыл бұрын

Love the paint jobs

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

They certainly are beautiful

@nosiestaguiding 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant - thank you. Only in Italia !

@MeMe-he7xc 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video very interesting, the spraying in particular looked like low pressure spraying to me...

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Me Me,

@myassitsbeentaken 4 жыл бұрын

Jon, You’ve converted me from decals to deckalls. Thanks for the pro tip. Feels faster too!

@NinetyTres 4 жыл бұрын

@Allan Graphics

@belly450 4 жыл бұрын

Still have my Wilier Cento Uno in UHC colour way , amazing bike and hand painted

@m4rc10 4 жыл бұрын

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

@zubinshroff533 4 жыл бұрын

Super bikes. I had picked up one way back in 1985 .. the copper finish , it would stand out from a long distance 👍

@btnacek35 4 жыл бұрын

Wilier è top bici Perfetto aero e molto veloce. J'adore 🚵‍♂️❤👍🏻

@michelepierro5975 4 жыл бұрын

Good video Jhon and nice tshirt

@howardkaye6104 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, thank!

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Howard, glad you enjoyed it

@jade4805 4 жыл бұрын

Great job Jon, that's it ! Now i have to get me a Wilier :(

@0bob0cya 3 жыл бұрын

JADE 4 Nice vlog, but I’m a Bianchi fan. Thanks for the great tour.

@Roman-gn5tp 4 жыл бұрын

I got Wilier GTR Team Racing. I love this bike.

@ashkandi1337 Жыл бұрын

My grandfather, whom i consider the best cyclist of all time, had a Wilier as first bike

@chuckgliderable 4 жыл бұрын

Great video JC is excellent and the bikes are really beautiful. At 3:36 "Need I go on?" Unfortunately yes, Femke van den driessche. Ironic that one of the next bikes featured is a lovely e-bike...

@rickypremaylon2820 Жыл бұрын

Wow I like it.....

@Enidub 4 жыл бұрын

Jon "Grubby Hands" Cannings

@petinka721 4 жыл бұрын

Wilier is a very very super nice bike!

@anibaljesusdelgadillo2091 4 жыл бұрын

Now I know what my next bike is going to be 💡

@aleroxit 4 жыл бұрын

I definitely want a willier

@JibbaJabber 4 жыл бұрын

@14:22 "Loads of old memorabilia hanging about" - might want to donate your jeans and trainers😆 Great vid Jon👍

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Hahah! what are you saying?

@johnforbesmusic 4 жыл бұрын

Perfect video! I truly enjoyed this. It has me interested in the Wilier company and further my love of the sport. Than you!

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks John , we loved making it and it's great to hear that you enjoyed it too

@glennoc8585 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice clean factory much nicer to work in than the usual dark noisey factories.

@Wildschwein_Jaeger 4 жыл бұрын

Sweet.

@rafeeqjalwa5622 4 жыл бұрын

Super👌

@sheruffa6032 2 жыл бұрын

che belle bici! :)

@keithmccallum1054 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting video Jon

@JonCannings 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers

@TheWaxChainFanClub 4 жыл бұрын

JC loves to get his grubby little hands on a nice Wilier.

@wanderingjuniper 4 жыл бұрын

I live near there, you could of popped in for a cafe for before we tackled Monte Grappa. You should do the Brevette (all the routes up the Grappa)on a Wilier in the shortest time, make a good video of a beautiful set of rides.

@resparer 3 жыл бұрын

I have the Wilier centro hybrid. Its a sweet bike

@MrHarshilsharma 4 жыл бұрын

Did anyone feel uncomfortable when Jon held that polished frame with his bare hand?

@stefalkilani1008 4 жыл бұрын

This may be fatal for an employee who polishes frames

@jayaybe1 4 жыл бұрын

No.

@nightsfalling 4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, I was thinking now they have to polish it again.

@s.b.9059 3 жыл бұрын

‘In 1995 we made 1,000 frames per year. Now our number is 30,000,’ says Andrea Gastaldello, co-owner of Wilier. As a result, Wilier’s headquarters is used less as a factory and more as a centre for assembly, design and prototype development. As with most of the high-end Italian brands - such as Pinarello, De Rosa and Colnago - frame production largely takes place in Asian factories

@brownshit1 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful looking bike, sadly out of my budget. Would love the opportunity to win one, though. ;)

@steveindorset 4 жыл бұрын

At 9:02 in he says “Theres a team behind me that sanding down forks, frames...” and “the team” are all stood there having a chat. One’s even leaning on the bench! Made me chuckle. 😂😂😂😂😂

@evelasq1 4 жыл бұрын

You gave me an idea for another road bike that is made in Italy. I wonder if the De Bernardi factory still exist in Italy. I like the steel bike. I did take a look website. The prices seems decent. Cheers!

@alexanderdrago9852 4 жыл бұрын

Italy is great in manufacturing of bikes and hiking shoes even the best in the world

@christophermee5214 4 ай бұрын

Hope you had a good jolly boys outing. Didn’t really see any bike building going on though.

@Liam_ridesbikes 4 жыл бұрын

Nice to see Jon's complete inability to keep his hands off of anything he can get to within touching distance of is still going strong since eurobike! Next GCN challenge: look but don't touch 😁

@gcn 4 жыл бұрын

Jon's grubby little hands are up for the challenge

@savinodicorato5965 3 жыл бұрын

I ❤️ wilier

@balanar9579 4 жыл бұрын

DREAM BRAND DREAM BIKE DREAM LOGO 😍😍😍

@andyela 3 жыл бұрын

😍😍😍

@ivorbrae 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a huge fan of the Superleggera and that "Modern Classic" style of bike. Do you think you guys can do a piece on that sort of steed? Superlegerra Vs. Colnago Master?

@riknbkr330 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video to see where my P.7 was painted and finished. No mention that Wilier is an acronym for W l’Italia LIberata E Redenta, where W is an abbreviation for "viva!", as other riders that ask me about my bike want to know WHO Wilier is.

@canitogalicia 4 жыл бұрын

Go and see Colnago,,,,,,COLNAGO,,,,,,,or even. DER❤️SA.......since you are in the motherland.....you are the best Jon....you bring out the kid spirit In all of us old farts that love cycling......

@DCassidy42 4 жыл бұрын

If given a blind test of bikes from Trek, Specialized, Canyon, Bianchi, Wilier, etc would you be able to feel any noticeable difference when riding? All of these high-end bikes have very similar geometry and they are all built with the same or similar materials, I think GCN should investigate this.

@302v8 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Jon, cracking video! Just a heads up; the double g leggera is pronounced as a j in English. It means ‘light’ (as in weight, not lumens).

@302v8 4 жыл бұрын

@daAnder71 It seems to be working alright XD

@ZeroSeriesMMX 4 жыл бұрын

I'm quite sure Alan or any of the GCN Italian crew called out Jon for this, way before Lasty upped the video on KZfaq.

@fitzt70 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tour Jon. I've been really tempted to plunk down a large sum for a Cento10NDR. Did you happen to get your grubby little hands on some coupons for a discount?

@stevemawer848 3 жыл бұрын

Back in the 1960s my local bike builder had one of his frames copper plated for a customer. It cost a fortune (for the time), looked awesome and the plater said it ruined his vat and wouldn't do another! And the owner polished the fork crown so much that he wore away the plating.

@SkeetSystem 4 жыл бұрын

bike box: this side up, always, do not lay on side wilier factory: *stacks pallet with bike boxes layed on their side*

@ronbyers9912 4 жыл бұрын

I love these manufacturing facility visits. Generally they are an interesting mix of old style and modern painting and assembly facilities. Since the frames are almost always built in East Asia, painting and final assembly are the only things done in these plants. Since all of the frames come from the same few plants and the non frame components are all from the same few manufacturers, I wonder if there are any real differences between modern bikes or if we are really mostly paying for branding.

@bicyclist2 4 жыл бұрын

Yes we are.

@DittersGustav 4 жыл бұрын

Sure we are, paying for traditional "italian" bikes 🤦🏻‍♂️

@giangi690 4 жыл бұрын

❤️🇮🇹❤️🇮🇹❤️🇮🇹

@abdullahalharbi1286 4 жыл бұрын

i had wilier gtrsl 🥰

@davidgibsonphotography 4 жыл бұрын

Gotta Love a Wilier.....@wilierlovers

@jasongirvan6729 4 жыл бұрын

Jon what a great tour I absolutely fell in love with the wiler centro in ramata several years ago and when they came to the Toronto international bike show in Ontario Canada back in March I inquired about that paint job and the Centro and what they told me was this The Centro was $18700 ca with that paint but they will gladly paint any bike in that paint but that paint is a $2500 ca upgrade to your bike (just the paint job) or if I would like I could buy a quart of it for $960 ca and paint my own bike. 😳🥵🤯 Apparently it actually has copper and gold dust flake to create its almighty glorious beautiful shine Wonder if the wife will let me paint my bike 🤔

@jasongirvan6729 4 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure if he told me that I was in such ah over a Centro in ramata in real life I love history, thank you

@PeterPutz82 4 жыл бұрын

Can GCN find that one megafactory in Schenzen, China where pretty much all the frames for all the brands are made? That would be very cool.

@ltu42 4 жыл бұрын

I suppose the frame manufacturers are under strict non-disclosure requirements, I doubt a factory tour can ever happen.

@zedgee4514 3 жыл бұрын

elbows tucked in even when he's not riding a very aero personality.

@Drzhounder 4 жыл бұрын

I want one.

@cyclenutter2715 4 жыл бұрын

10.2 kilos is the same weight as my bike which isn't an e bike lol

@Enidub 4 жыл бұрын

You may want to explain the whole "break" thing for those not privy, I feel there may be some people thinking that people in the UK only do high tea and don't have lunch breaks.