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

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.

We also speak regularly in independent expert presentations about all areas of bicycle technology and the bicycle market. In addition, we are quoted by further special-interest magazines of the industry and the trade as well as increasingly by radio and television in their media reports, which shows us that we are spot on with our advice. The section "News" informs you about the latest news from our specialist areas. The reports and publications of this section are listed chronologically or according to areas of interest.

TOUR 10/2017
Reading time 0:50 minutes

Bicycle transport with disc brake

Reader’s question

My new Cannondale SuperX has a Shimano Di2 gear system and hydraulic disc brakes. Soon, I will make a trip into the mountains with my own car and I would like to transport my bike in the boot of my SUV in lying position. In one of the last TOUR issues I read that air can also enter into the system when transporting the bike in lying position. What can I do to prevent that this will happen, if I take my bike on a 700 kilometre long trip?

Reply by Dirk Zedler, TOUR technology expert and bicycle expert

Simply take a very tight rubber for each handlebar end and tie it around the brake lever, as if you would pull the levers. Then you will have pressure in the system, which remains free of air as a consequence. If you remove the wheels, you have to mount brake pad distance holders to the disc brake first, before pulling the brake lever. Do not tighten the rubber around the brake lever before. Make sure that the system remains free of air.

Go back