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Read our review of the BMC Timemachine here. The modicum of compliance offered by the bowed seatstays and fork legs makes it a little more accommodating on a rough road than a good number of its aero competitors. When we tried the calliper brake version we found ourselves wishing for the extra control offered by discs. Read our review of the Look RS here. Buy now from Look Cycle. Created in partnership with lauded Italian design house Pininfarina, it of Ferraris and Alfa Romeos, the SK is a bike that proves aero can be elegant.
The ride quality is spritely and comfortable, and what it lacks in top-end punch of some of the stiffer aero offerings it makes up for by being a classic waiting to happen. One for the aesthete as much as the racer. The Cento has been an on-going model in the Wilier range for nearly a decade, and the latest aero-fied version takes all the popular aero bike features and rolls them up into a very Italian package.
That is, integrated bar-stem, disc brakes, wide-stance low stays and fork manifest in nippy, race-bike handling that requires a decent amount of concentration to get the best out of. One for the racers. Wilier Cento 10 Air review. The original Concept was a project between bike guru Ernesto Colnago and motoring guru Enzo Ferrari in This latest version has all the hallmarks of a classic modern aero bike: deep, bladed down tube; sinuous curves that hug the wheels; and components designed to hide away from the wind.
Incredibly, Colnago has redesigned each frame size for optimal aerodynamics, rather than just scaling up or down.
So a size 56cm is actually a different bike to a size 58cm. Sign up for our newsletter Newsletter. Secondary menu. Best aero bikes Ride faster. Cyclist magazine 1 Sep The best aero bikes of 1.
Trek Madone. However, we have conducted a couple of past experiments that have compared the performances of aero bikes with non-aero bikes. In the first of these, we put the two bikes to the test in what should be the aero bike's home turf : the velodrome. However, this time it was the lightweight bike that came out on top.
At W, it took our test rider to tackle the 2. At W, the lightweight bike was still faster, but the gap between the two was reduced, with the aero bike only being seven seconds slower with a 0. This shows how much more important aerodynamics become at higher speeds, while weight is more of a factor at lower speeds.
The take home message then, is for most riders over most terrain, an aero bike will be faster than a lightweight bike. The only case where weight begins to become more of a factor is on steeper climbs where you're travelling more slowly, and even then any time gains could well be balanced out on the descent, where the high speeds are going to make aerodynamics a factor again.
At a most basic level, all aero bikes should come with tubes that have been shaped to smooth airflow, meaning that they will have a slender front profile but being extended rearwards. However, manufacturers can't go crazy if they want to see their bikes used in races, with the UCI's rule restricting the ways in which they can shape the tubes. This rule means that the depth of a tube's profile or indeed any other part of a bicycle cannot be more than three times its width.
So if a bike's down tube is two centimeters wide when viewed from the front, then it cannot be more than six centimeters wide when viewed from the side. In an attempt to continue to improve the aerodynamics of their bikes while staying within this rule, many manufacturers now use kamm-tail tube profiles. This means that the tube retains a traditional aerofoil shape at the front, but with the back half lopped off to give it a flat back.
A lot of people say that aero bikes now all look the same and a possible reason is because of the use of popular dropped rear stays, which the industry has collectively decided is the most aerodynamic shape. Helpfully, it's also comfortable, too. Integration is the latest big trend when it comes to aero bikes, with the latest aero bikes such as the Trek Madone aiming to hide as much hardware as possible within the frame.
The key to this is cable routing. The sleekest aero bikes keep the gear and brake cables hidden for as long as possible, routing them through the handlebars, stem, and frame before they emerge close to their partner components, usually on the backside of the tubes to keep them out of the wind.
At the next level down from this the cables are not routed through the handlebars and stem, but do at least enter the down tube behind the head tube to keep the cable entry out of the wind. Integrated rim brakes used to be very common on aero bikes and when the first models emerged a few years ago most manufacturers decided that the optimum aero position to stick the rear brake was under the bottom bracket, although the aerodynamic benefit of this was questionable. Now, however, the market has moved a long way from integrated brakes, and disc brakes are the most common stoppers that you'll find on aero bikes, with some models even being disc brake specific.
The bike brand's argue that they've managed to design the latest models around the rotors, or generate more aero savings across the frame. However, possibly the most important part or parts of a seriously sleek aero bike are the wheels. According to Kevin Quan of Knight composites, a 95mm deep rim which is admittedly incredibly deep will save a typical rider watts compared to a standard box section wheel at time trial speeds. While 95mm is probably a little deep, most aero bikes do come with chunky rim profiles, typically between 50 and 65mm deep.
Other than aero benefits, deep wheels are stiffer and faster rolling as a result. Oh, and they look amazing, too. There are, of course, other areas that aero bikes can maximise efficiency. Nearly all models now come with either an integrated bar and stem that are designed in an aerodynamic shape, or ones that are capable of running cables internally. Yes, for most people on most terrain, an aero bike will be faster, but if you're considering buying one, you also have to weigh up what day-to-day life will be like with your new pride and joy.
It used to be the case that the more aerodynamic the bike, the more difficult it was to live with, mostly because of complicated internal cable routing. This does make altering cable length or raising and lowering stack height a bit of a pain because it involves cutting cables to do so. However, many modern aero bikes now come with split spacers, which makes this process a lot easier.
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