Sascha Resch is a great computer expert and a big racing bike fan. As far as his height is concerned, however, the 19-year-old high school graduate is comparatively small. At 1.62 metres, he is exactly 16 centimetres shorter than the average German man. This average is at least the result of a statistical survey from 2009. According to this survey, German men are on average 1.78 metres tall, German women 1.65 metres.
Resch generally faces the fact that he is not one of the longest in the country with healthy self-irony. Only sometimes does he get annoyed about the restrictions that his height sometimes imposes. For example, when buying a racing bike. When he wanted to buy a racing bike a few years ago as a schoolboy on a tight budget, the result was inevitably a compromise. To be precise, a discontinued model that was a few centimetres too long and too high for him. But what should he do? As he couldn't spend any more money, the alternative would have been not to buy a racing bike. And so Resch has been bending over the too-long frame more badly than well ever since, instead of riding a bike that suits his stature and requirements, as he should have done.
Sascha Resch and other TOUR readers tried out these five small carbon racers:
- Cube Axial WLS GTC SL
- Felt F4
- Focus Izalco Ergoride 3.0
- Specialised Amira Elite C2
- Trek Madone 5.2 WSD
The practical experience was supplemented by extensive laboratory tests.
You can find the test results in the PDF download below.
In the video you can follow our testers at work:
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