10 Bike-Related Recalls to Check Out Before You Hit the Road This Spring

10 Bike-Related Recalls to Check Out Before You Hit the Road This Spring

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Now that spring is here, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is reminding consumers to check to see if their bicycles, bicycle components or accessories have been recalled before using them. Recalled bicycles, components and accessories can be dangerous and cause an accident, resulting in injury or even death. If you have a recalled product, contact the firm for the remedy. Once thats taken care of, remember to properly strap on your bike helmet!

Check out these recent bicycle-related recalls. You can find out more about these recalls and others at our website www.cpsc.gov.

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Product
Recall Press Release
Hazard
Photos
Bridgeway Bicycles
(91,000 units)
11-331
The bicycle chain can break, causing a rider to lose control and fall.

Trek 2012 FX and District bicycles
(27,000 units)
12-024
The bolt that secures the seat saddle clamp to the seat post can break posing a fall hazard.

Fuji Saratoga Women’s Bicycles
(10,500 units)
12-112
The bicycle’s frame can break in the center of the downtube during use, causing the rider to lose control and fall.

Public Bikes 2010 through 2012 Model Year Bicycles

(4,100 units)
12-145
The pedals can crack and break, posing a fall hazard to the rider.

Specialized 2012 bicycles with Advanced Group carbon forks
(460 units)
12-096
The brake component housed within the bicycles carbon fork can disengage from the fork and allow the brake assembly to contact the wheel spokes while rotating, posing a fall hazard.

Chariot bicycle trailers (44,000 units)
and bicycle trailer conversion kits (70,000 units)
12-085
The bicycle trailers hitch mechanisms can crack and break, causing the trailer to detach from the bicycle. This poses an injury hazard to children in the bicycle trailer.

Topeak Babyseat® II Bicycle Carrier Seats
(40,000 units)
12-143
A child can place his or her fingers in the opening at the grab bars hinge mechanism. When the consumer lifts the grab bar to remove the child from the seat, the childs fingertips can be caught in the hinge mechanism, posing a laceration and fingertip amputation hazard to the child.

Little Tricky Bicycle Helmets
(30,400 units)
12-082
Product testing demonstrated that these helmets do not comply with CPSC safety standards for impact resistance. Consumers could suffer impact head injuries in a fall.

GT, Giant and Trek Bicycles with SR Suntour Suspension Forks
(17,000 units)
12-149
The suspension fork’s internal support tubes can break and cause the rider to lose control, fall and crash.

Gore Bicycle Brake Cables for Road Bikes
(9,700 units)
12-125
When the brake cables are installed on Campagnolo® style brake levers, they can detach, causing the brakes to fail and posing a fall hazard.