Scott Sports activities has at this time issued a voluntary recall discover on its Speedster bikes, masking each the mannequin’s street and gravel derivatives.
“Scott is conducting this recall resulting from an inhouse discovering that the steerer tube/fork bridge can break, making a potential fall hazard,” explains the discover. A separate report offers additional element explaining that “traces of cracking throughout the fork steerer” had been discovered throughout inner assessments.
“To this point, there have been no accidents nor accidents reported because of the potential breakage, nor experiences of failure,” the discover continues.
The recall impacts 5 fashions in complete from Scott’s 2022 vary. Particularly, this consists of the Speedster 40 and Speedster 50 street bikes, in addition to Speedster Gravel 50, Speedster Gravel 40 EQ and Contessa Speedster Gravel 35 gravel bikes. A complete of 1985 bikes are affected.
The at-risk fashions had been bought in Europe, Asia and South America. Scott says prospects within the USA or Australia will not be topic to the recall.
House owners of those fashions are informed to examine beneath their fork bridge for a inexperienced dot. These with out the inexperienced dot are topic to the recall, whereas these with the dot are secure to proceed driving.
House owners of affected fashions are being suggested to instantly cease driving the bike and take it to an authorised Scott seller, the place they are going to obtain a substitute fork freed from cost.
Alternatively, house owners can contact Scott at recall@scott-sports.com for extra info.
