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"aero experts in other fields laugh at some shapes in the new wheels"
If they are in other fields, they might not actually ride bikes. There's more to a good wheel than just minimum drag, otherwise we'd all use front discs :-) Most of the work in the past few years has not been focused on reducing drag at low yaw, it has been a move towards making a low drag wheel which can actually be used in cross wind conditions too.
gbj_tester-
haha true, I tried explaining the front disc thing to a triathlete once, and he downright refused to believe me, couldn't fathom that a front has more of a positive aero effect than the back #stupidslvlss
Could it lead to multiple types of aero wheel being created then? low wind and high wind ones? for example on a still day being teed up for a sprint, a sprinter would rather have a "low wind" more V shaped wheel than a "high wind" U shaped
The marketers and wheel companies would certainly jump on it
noBlakes
Isn't this basically what the head honcho at Reynolds has been telling us for a while? I remember reading an interesting article/interview on the area that could be summarised as "aero experts in other fields laugh at some shapes in the new wheels" "cervelo and giant with the new propel have it right by making thin frames still"
there's obviously more, but that's what I clearly remember