Wilier have overhauled their line-up of mid-range road bikes for 2016, expanding the GTR family to include four frames, of which the GTR Team and GTR SL will both be available in ‘endurance’ and ‘race’ geometries.

Alongside the GTR Team and GTR SL, the existing GTR will remaining, while the GTR Disc is another new addition to the range. All in all, 11 bikes (including a women’s bike dubbed the Luna) will form the completely UK GTR line-up, from £1,299 to £2,999.

We’ve been along to visit Wilier’s UK distributor, ATB Sales, to see what’s in store from the Italian brand for 2016, and will also run through changes to the Cento 1 SR, and highlights from the rest of the range, but let’s start with the GTR Team and GTR SL.

Look at both frames and they share the same features, and they also bear more than a passing resemblance to the top-end Cento 1 SR. Key features include the integrated fork, a design borrowed from the Cento 1 SR. This essentially places more carbon fibre behind the fork crown in a design which Wilier say solidifies the front-end in order to improve handling. The seatstays are suitably slim, in a bid to boost comfort, while there’s also a 27.2mm seatpost for the same reason. All cable routing is internal, the frame can accept 28mm tyres and uses a beefy BB86 bottom bracket to improve stiffness.

The difference between the GTR SL and GTR Team lies beneath the skin, with the former made from a higher grade of carbon fibre. Whereas the Team is made from a blend of 46 and 30-ton carbon fibre, which produces a claimed frame weight of 1,190g, the SL is constructed from a 60 and 46-ton blend, and that drops the claimed frame weight below the kilo mark to 990g. Where the frame weight drops, the price rises.

What’s most interesting about the GTR SL and GTR Team, however, is that Wilier will offer both frames in two difference geometries – ‘endurance’ and ‘race’. Both frames are available in six sizes from XS to XXL and the ‘endurance’ geometry has a higher stack and shorter reach to essentially provide a slightly more relaxed riding position, though it’s still on the sporty side of relaxed. As an example, a medium ‘endurance’ frame has a 52.3cm toptube, compared to 54cm on the ‘race’ frame, and while both have a 14.8cm headtube, the ‘endurance’ bike uses a fork which has 10mm of stack to bring the front-end up. The ‘endurance’ fork is also 1mm slacker, which increases the wheelbase by 5mm to provide more stable handling.

That’s the tech covered, then. Flick on to the next page for the build specs of the 11 bikes in the GTR range, as well as more on the updated Wilier Cento 1 SR.