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TOUR 02/2025 and tour-magazin.de 2025/01/10
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The beginnings of a new era in road bike testing

30 years of TOUR testing – With measure and courage

30 years ago, TOUR began testing and measuring road racing bikes systematically. This has had a significant influence on the development of the road racing bike. A look back and into the present

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The two engineers and former technical editors Robert Kühnen and Dirk Zedler were looking for a way to make reproducible statements about the riding behaviour of road racing bikes. Their point of view: “Ride tests are all well and good, but in order to make reasonable statements about road racing bikes, you have to expose them to extreme riding situations, i.e. preferably on fast and long downhill sections, at high speeds and on different surfaces,” says Robert Kühnen. “And it's all the more better if several riders do this so that they can compare their respective experiences. Of course, the effort involved would have been without any financial and personnel limits.” So in November 1994, after much thought and some experimentation, Robert Kühnen and Dirk Zedler presented a test stand that measured the torsion of the front triangle in relation to the rear triangle.

Not foreseeable at the time:

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Author: Thomas Musch

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