Tour magazine wheel test

Why is a magazine called "Tour" rating boutique wheels???

On 2/4/2011 3:44 AM, Chalo Colina wrote:
T♦m Shermâ™*n wrote:

Note the three Mavic wheels have the highest aerodynamic drag of all
those tested.

Note also that the Alex wheels have the lowest drag of all the wheels
tested.

Chalo

Yeah, but would you rather have lower drag and cost with better
durability, or European Heritage & Mystiqueâ„¢?

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Tºm Shermªn™ °_° wrote:
On 2/4/2011 3:44 AM, Chalo Colina wrote:
T♦m Sherm♠n wrote:

Note the three Mavic wheels have the highest aerodynamic drag of all
those tested.

Note also that the Alex wheels have the lowest drag of all the wheels
tested.

Chalo

Yeah, but would you rather have lower drag and cost with better
durability, or European Heritage & Mystiqueâ„¢?


Real Italian or merely 'Euro' ?

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On Feb 4, 6:25*pm, JG wrote:
Why is a magazine called "Tour" rating boutique wheels???

It is one of the biggest road bicycle magazines in Europe. It is all
about the road bicycle (I have never seen an article there featuring a
"normal road bike").

Now, you shouldn't take the measurement values in the Tour at face
value. However, they do make measurements of all kinds (frames, seat
posts, handle bars, etc.) on a regular basis in collaboration with
universities and public research facilities In Germany.

How you gonna interpret the measurements is a different matter.
However, they at least measure and that is what the engineers in
Germany are good at. The magazine "Cycling Plus" for example here in
the UK is laughing stock in terms of "objective comparable
measurements" because there are none (I do not even mention UK based
"Cycling Active" since this magazine is a true humiliation).

The competitor in Germany to Tour is the magazine "Roadbike". They
also try to test and measure. The magazines are not unbiased
especially testing tyres at the test centres with Continental or
Schwalbe; guess what which tyres come out first then.