Here’s something you won’t see in a road.cc bike test (yet) – how far a bike can travel through the air. Wiggle have tried it, though, with four very different models, launching them and their riders off what resembles a ski jump off the side of a mountain in the French Alps.

Fortunately, the riders – carrying weights where necessary to ensure like is being compared with like – are attached to bungee cords, but even so some of the facial expressions in this video of the exercise are priceless as they plummet into the ravine.

Watch to find out which bike and rider flies through the air with the greatest of ease – and road.cc bike reviewers be warned, site editor Tony was last seen, hammer in hand, heading off to the Cheddar Gorge in a van laden with sheets of plywood, planks of wood and coils of super-thick of elastic cord …

The film was shot at the Bun J Ride, just behind the Hotel les Aravis in St-Jean-de-Sixt, Haute-Savoie.