Wilier Cento 1 NDR Ultegra review

Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Wilier Cento 1 NDR provides a quality frameset and is easy to ride for the longer distances for which it was intended. But in this spec, it’s let down by the wheels and deserves an upgrade to bring out its excellent ride qualities.

Reasons to buy
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    Excellent frame with great power transfer

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    Comfortable riding position that isn’t too upright

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    Good compliance over uneven surfaces

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    Highly adaptable frame

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Reasons to avoid
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    Heavy wheels are crying out for an upgrade

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    Not tubeless ready

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Wilier’s latest endurance bike hits a lower price point than the Cento 10 NDR

Wilier launched its Cento 10 NDR a couple of years ago. That machine was a premium priced endurance bike with some neat integration features. Now there’s the Cento 1 NDR, which we’ve tested here.

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.