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title: The release of the new Shimano Dura Ace 12 V groupset is an opportunity to offer a Unique frame
description: Wilier Triestina celebrates the market launch of the new Shimano 12 Speed groupset with a Unico series frame available in two hundred pieces.
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# [The release of the new Shimano Dura Ace 12 V groupset is an opportunity to offer a Unique frame](https://journal.wilier.com/en/the-release-of-the-new-shimano-dura-ace-12-groupset-is-an-opportunity-to-offer-a-unique-frame)

 Written by [Wilier](https://journal.wilier.com/en/author/wilier) | Sep 21, 2021 10:14:00 AM

The history of **Japan** became less mysterious in **1868**.  
That year, the ports of the Land of the Rising Sun reopened their piers to European ships, and commercial trade with the West was again set in motion. **Kobe** and, above all,** Osaka** were the two main ports where western cargo ships docked.

It was there, amongst all the merchandise imaginable, that the bicycle also went ashore.

And it was precisely in **Osaka’s suburb of Sakai** that, in **1921**, **Shizaburo Shimano** founded ***Shimano Iron Works*** with the intention of producing **freewheels**, the most technically sophisticated bicycle mechanism at the time.  
Fast forward to the 1970s when the **Dura-Ace groupsets** suddenly demonstrated to Europe that **Shimano**‘s technical potentials were extremely high, enough to make them broadly popular on the *Old Continent* as well.

One can say that the huge technological and commercial success of **Shimano** was a sign of what was soon to come to velodromes around the world, with the decade-long and absolute domination of professional sprinter **[Koichi Nakano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koichi_Nakano)** and the introduction of a speciality which, up to that point, was still the story of legends: **[Keirin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirin)**.  
Shimano was effectively the ambassador of a new era in cycling when it became clear that cycling had resoundingly gone beyond Europe’s borders.

To celebrate the market launch of Shimano’s latest jewel-the **Dura Ace 12 Speed** groupset- in a memorable way, Wilier Triestina has decided to cross into art, just like Shimano had done with its components making them genuine technological masterpieces.  
**Japanese artist [Jun Inoue](http://juninoue.jp/)** has therefore been asked to put his signature on the** [new Unico project](https://discover.wilier.com/en/unico)**, the third of the series.

Jun’s artistic journey encompasses **Shodo** – the *ancient Japanese art of calligraphy* – and his works are a mix of the mystique of Ancient Japan and the excitement of its modern society.

Hence, **[Wilier Triestina](https://journal.wilier.com/en/category/corporate/)** has decided to celebrate the new Dura Ace 12 Speed groupset with the art of **Jun Inoue** uniquely captured in the **Unico** series frame of the **Filante SLR**, in a special edition consisting of **two hundred pieces**.  
Two hundred times in which a frame is transformed into a canvas, creating an unrepeatable emotion.

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