Mountain bicycles – Cannondale
Serious risk Injuries
- Product
- Mountain bicycles
- Brand
- Cannondale (5 alerts)
- Type / model
- Cannondale Mountain Bicycles with Lefty Speed SL and Lefty Speed DLR Forks.
- Description
- The products are mountain bicycles with certain models of Lefty suspension forks. Note that these forks are proprietary Cannondale products with unique dimensions. Unlike many suspension forks these cannot be fitted to other brands of bicycles.Lefty Speed Carbon SL: - 2007 Taurine Carbon Team Replica - 2007 Scalpel 1 - 2007 Scalpel Team Replica - 2007 Rush Carbon 1 - 2007 Rush Carbon Team - 2007 Aftermarket, replacement Lefty Speed Carbon SL forks Lefty Speed DLR 2 (including bonded, 100mm and 80mm): - 2007 Rush Carbon 2 (This model also included in the recall for Cranksets – CPSC press release #07-206) - 2007 Rush 3 - 2007 Rush 4 - 2007 Rush 5 - 2007 Caffeine 29’er - 2007 Scalpel 2 - 2007 Scalpel 3 - 2007 Caffeine 1 - 2007 Caffeine 2 - 2007 Rush Feminine 1 - 2007 aftermarket, replacement Lefty Speed (bonded, 100mm and 80mm) DLR 2 - 2008 Rush Carbon 3.
- Risk
- The notified product poses a serious risk of injuries due to a possible failure of a fork.Cannondale has received 15 reports of the bicycle forks separating, including five reports of injuries including a broken collarbone, broken ribs and bruises. All accidents were reported in the US. So far, no accidents reported in Europe.
- Measures
- Voluntary withdrawal from the market, recall from consumers and information to consumers
- Notifying country
- The Netherlands
- Country of origin
- The Netherlands
- Alert type
- Consumer
- Photos
- Photos shown from the Safety Gate server (European Commission); not copied here.
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Other alerts for Cannondale
- Hobby/sports equipment · The Netherlands Bicycle, Bicycle frame – Cannondale “Slice RS” 5 Julweek 26 report, 2013 Injuries Serious risk
- Hobby/sports equipment · The Netherlands Bicycle: Scalpel Carbon – Cannondale 8 Febweek 5 report, 2008 Injuries Serious risk
- Motor vehicles · Greece Bicycles with Carbon Crankset – Cannondale 6 Julweek 26 report, 2007 Injuries Serious risk
- Motor vehicles · Greece Bicycles with damping cartridge – Cannondale 29 Junweek 25 report, 2007 Injuries Serious risk