All about bicycles, electric-assisted bikes, technology and safety in the press

In our daily work as we deal with bicycle safety, technology and user manuals we come across lots of safety risks. The most frequent ones are published in articles of the leading German special-interest magazines TOUR – Europas Rennrad-Magazin Nr. 1, BIKE – Das Mountainbike Magazin Europas Nr. 1 and E-Bike – Das Pedelec-Magazin to make this information important for the sector accessible to a wider public.

For many years now the Eurobike Show Daily accompanying the annual international Eurobike Show has given us the opportunity to publish our perspective on major developments in the cycle industry in full-page articles.

We also speak regularly in independent lectures about all topics relating to bicycle technology and bicycle market. In addition, we are regularly cited by further special-interest magazines or trade journals as well as more and more by radio and television and in their media reports, which shows us that we are completely right with our information. The section NEWS informs you about the latest news from our specialist fields. The reports and publications of this section are listed chronologically or according to topics of interest.

RadMarkt 12/2013
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And yet he moves

Sometimes you expect little and get more. On the occasion of their members’ meeting the German service and bicycle cooperation (VSF) had arranged a panel discussion on the e-bike test of the German product testers (Stiftung Warentest). Those who had expected no more than an exchange of the known arguments on this November 25, 2013 in Bad Boll were pleasantly surprised. It seems that the Berlin product testers are possibly willing to move with regard to the test design and to open a genuine dialogue.

As a matter of fact the discussion also included the verbal exchange reminding the press conference given by the industry and the reply of the product testers (…). The CEO of Biketec, Kurt Schaer, of course took the opportunity to assure the big number of Flyer dealers on the spot that there was no truth in the defects on the low-step-through frames of Flyer alleged by the product testers. Intensive tests had been conducted on their own and no modifications to the frames were made. He is of the opinion that the frame breakage was caused by a wrong clamping into the test stand, in this point he had the assistance of the tester Dirk Zedler who sarcastically remarked that the fix clamping of the rear frame was a wrong method used by the product testers, which can normally be done by a trainee, whereas the correct movable clamping of the rear frame required a sophisticated construction which was only mastered by competent engineers.

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Author: Michael Bollschweiler

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