There's nothing that road cyclists argue about more than frame stiffness and comfort. Supporters of stiff aluminium or carbon frames argue with friends of the classic steel frame because they believe that steel is comfortable per se. And can a frame be too stiff? This question is as much a source of controversy as the judgement of steering head stiffness. There is only one thing left to do: a test without regard to rank, name and image. What wine experts awkwardly describe as a "blind tasting", TOUR has packed into a unique test as an unprecedented concept comparison: nobody knows what they are riding. Eight fundamentally different racing bikes were made completely unrecognisable and travelled to the TOUR readers' test weeks in the training camp in Sicily, where around 25 readers tested the bikes intensively.
You can find these frames in the test as a PDF download:
Bianchi, Canyon F 10 Ultimate, Felt F 35, Giant TCR Composite, KTM Strada 4000, Marschall Alamo, Müsing Onroad Ltd., Schmoke Arcalis
(Text: Dirk Zedler, Photos, Daniel Simon, Matthias Borchers)
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