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.

tour-magazin.de 2018/11/16

Seat post test in TOUR 12/2018: Test set-up and types of damage

Our extensive seat post tests in TOUR 12/2018 brought to light the weak points of many test samples. Details as to the test set-up and evidence of all types of damage are given further below.

First the candidates passed a lighter endurance load test in accordance with the ISO standard. The samples that did not pass this test with more than one sample were excluded from evaluation.

The following load spectrum was passed by new test samples of the candidates. It was developed by test institute Zedler and TOUR and assumes higher, but realistic loads on the basis of real data measurements. For this test load is partly applied in the front area during the load cycle simulating the case that the cyclist sits on the saddle nose when a shock occurs.
Nearly all seat posts showed some kind of defect during or after the harder TOUR endurance test. The Specialized and Syntace seat posts were the only ones that passed the test without problems. Most defects however have a non-critical course and are repairable; therefore the seat posts were marked after all. No more than a few of them were affected by safety-related failures.

Read the entire article here.

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Author: Jens Klötzer

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