After half a decade dominated by the ‘aero all-rounder’, 2025 is the year in which the all-out aero bike truly made a comeback.
Evidence of this is Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard racing their respective aero bikes, the Colnago Y1Rs and Cervélo S5, for every road stage of the recent Tour de France, even the high-mountain stages, despite both having a nominal ‘lightweight bike’ at their disposal too.
To answer these questions, in our latest Cyclingnews Labs test, we’ve been back in the wind tunnel with 12 of the latest dedicated aero bikes on the market. Our selection includes the Colnago Y1Rs, Factor’s UCI-legal pre-production prototype, the latest Cervélo S5, Ridley’s Noah Fast 3.0, Argon 18’s new Nitrogen Pro and many more.
The bikes
While our previous test centred on popular all-rounders and bikes found in the WorldTour, this time round, our focus was on dedicated aero bikes.
In alphabetical order, they are as follows:
- Argon 18 Nitrogen Pro (pre-production prototype)
- Bianchi Oltre RC
- Cervélo S5
- Colnago Y1Rs
- Cube Litening Aero C:68X
- DARE Velocity Ace-AFO
- Elves Falath EXP
- Factor Prototype
- Merida Reacto 9000
- Ridley Noah Fast 3.0
- Scott Foil RC
- Van Rysel RCR-F
- And our baseline: My very own 2015 Trek Émonda ALR
We requested a top-tier spec from every brand, mainly to avoid any brands gaining an unfair advantage, and because we wanted each of our aero bikes to be…
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