Last fall Hunt Wheels introduced us to their new composites engineer Luisa Grappone, with an eye on further optimizing their carbon wheel designs. Well, she’s been dragging the Hunt team from Sussex into the wind tunnel, and now we all get to go too – at least virtually. Tomorrow afternoon Tuesday, January 9th (in Germany, so wake up early US-dwellers) Hunt will be broadcasting live behind the scenes from the GST wind tunnel, testing the aero performance of their next wide, disc brake tubeless wheels on a complete bike setup.
Aero testing live from the GST wind tunnel
Hunt wanted to get better data on real aero performance of wide, tubeless disc brake wheels. So they’ve mounted up some 28mm Schwalbe Pro One tubeless tire to their latest prototypes and put them into some aero Canyon frames to see how they can optimize rim design with a tubeless setup and no rim braking constraints.
Now they want to offer a rare peek into the real aerodynamics testing from one of the world’s leading facilities. The GST or Gesellschaft für Strömungsmeßtechnik is the same tunnel where several big companies like Canyon, DT Swiss & Swiss Side test their cycling products, and where many pro athletes come to dial in their fit & equipment. Hunt has just started testing their latest wide disc brake carbon tubeless wheels there this week, in what they are calling ‘first round’ tests.
Follow along at home – Live!
