Urta SLR

Wilier Triestina is one of cycling's oldest names, founded in 1906 in Bassano del Grano, Veneto, and famous for a century of Italian road racing (the copper-hued Ramata finish, Giro and Classics victories). For decades Wilier was a road-and-track house, but the modern brand pushed hard into off-road, and the Urta line became its serious cross-country statement. The Urta SLR, launched around 2021, distilled Wilier's road carbon know-how - the same HUS-MOD high-modulus fibre used on the Filante and Verticale road frames - into a 100mm XC race full-suspension aimed squarely at World Cup XCO and marathon courses. It was designed as a featherweight climber's tool: a compact rear triangle, a high single-pivot with a flexing seatstay instead of a rear pivot to save weight, and a bar-mounted remote that locks both fork and shock at once for out-of-the-saddle sprints. In 2023 Wilier extended the family with the longer, slacker 120mm Urta Max SLR for the increasingly technical modern XC calendar, leaving the original Urta SLR as the lighter, steeper, pure-marathon option.