Bike Testing and Technology: Interesting Links (texts mostly in German)

Scientific websites and test reports
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• Japan bicycle technical center - the oldest bicycle institute in the world, one of the founders of Shimano
• Metallurgy for cyclists - a small article on bicycle materials by Scot Nicol of the magazine VeloNews 
• Fahrradforschung an der Uni Oldenburg - researching today on the bikes of tomorrow (German).
• Damon Rinard´s Bicycle Tech Site - interesting bicycle test results from California, with excellent links
• Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) - list of all US bike and component recalls
• Ric Hjertbergs photo collection of crankset and axle fractures (thanks to Lotar Krahmer)
• CFK Damage - discussion by members of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (German)

• VSF e.V. - an association of pro-bike retailers
• Hase Spezialräder - unique and successful new bike solutions from Germany
  
• B. Eisenschmidt, R. Mai - sworn CCI bike experts and members of the German Association of Bike Experts ( Bundesverband der Fahrradsachverständigen )
• Fahrradlinks.de - includes German manufacturers directory
• TOUR - German racing bike magazine
• Mountain BIKE - German mountain bike magazine
• BIKE - German mountain bike magazine

• Links to Manufacturers - an alphabetic index of manufacturers
• The international bicycle fund - an extensive overview of bikes
• Articles by Sheldon Brown, Keith Bontrager and Others
• Analytic Cycling - an interesting website for calculating all aspects of cycling and bike components