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The most common safety risks that we come across in our daily work around bicycle safety, technology and operating instructions are also published by us in articles in the leading German special-interest magazines TOUR (Europe's road bike magazine no. 1), BIKE (Europe's mountain bike magazine no. 1), MYBIKE and EMTB in order to make this information, which is important for the industry, available to a wider public.

For many years now, the Eurobike Show Daily, trade fair magazine of the annual Eurobike Show, has also given us the opportunity to publish our view of major developments in the cycle industry in full-page articles.

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BIKE 02/2013
Reading time 0:45 minutes

CARBON – Care & Maintenance

Pieces of sports equipment made of carbon are both robust and sensitive. They require special care. Graduate engineer Dirk Zedler explains what you should do and what you must not do.

1. PARKING
Never lean your bicycle with the top tube against a railing, a road sign or the like. The handlebar can turn, the bike moves away and the top tube sustains damage. (…)

2. TRANSPORT
Do not place sports bags or the like on a bicycle transported in lying position. Do not mount your carbon bike for transport to a rack fixing the down, seat or top tube with a clamp. The clamping forces necessary for a safe transport can lead to a tube damage which may be invisible from the outside. (…)

3. PRECAUTIONS
If the brake or the shift lever bumps against the top tube on the occasion of a fall, the frame can suffer from damage. (…)

4. ASSEMBLY AND MAINTENANCE
Do not fix the frame in an assembly stand with clamp mechanism. Due to the lever ratios, there is the risk of a tube being crushed. (…)

Read the complete article in bike 02/2013

Author: Dirk Zedler

 


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