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Josh Croxton

Wind tunnel testing aero bikes: Wild Factor prototype, Colnago Y1Rs, Cervelo S5, Ridley Noah and eight others compared in our biggest aero group test yet

Josh riding a Dare VA-AFO in the wind tunnel.

Last month, the Cyclingnews tech team returned to the unassuming industrial unit that is fast becoming our second home: the wind tunnel at Silverstone Sports Engineering Hub, for the latest in the CN Labs series of empirical group tests, and this, I think, we can call "the big one."

We tested 12 of today's best aero road bikes. Not the aero all-rounders like the Tarmac SL8 or the Madone as tested last year - check out last year's superbike test here - but purebred aero machines with headtubes inspired by the Mariana Trench and radical silhouettes that, in the case of some, probably make Eddy Merckx's eye twitch with contempt.

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