FSA has declared a voluntary recall of its Gossamer BB30 chain units fitted to twenty-eight outstanding bike fashions.
The recall impacts 12,300 Gossamer Professional AGX+ chainsets (product code 6037) that have been offered individually and on bicycles together with Cannondale, Canyon, Marin, Haro, Fuji, and Pinarello gravel manufacturers between January and December of 2022.
A discover on the Client Product Security Fee web site (CPSC) says “Shoppers ought to instantly cease utilizing the bicycles with the recalled cranksets, and phone Full Pace Forward for directions.”
The Gossamer chainsets have been fitted to entry degree Synapse fashions such because the bike above
(Picture credit score: Cannondale)
The American part producer launched an official security discover final week, saying that it had acquired reviews of crank arms turning into “free or wobbly and detaching from the crank/spindle interface”. The cranks, that are held collectively by a press-fit interface and a bonding agent, are solely liable to failure on the drive facet in response to FSA.
Each the character of the crank failings and the potential accidents highlighted by FSA share just a few similarities with the Shimano Hollowtech crank recall. If a crank de-bonds whereas being ridden, the sudden slip can simply trigger somebody to crash, and danger critical damage.
On the time of writing, FSA has acquired 277 reviews of cranks detaching or turning into free, nevertheless, no accidents have been reported. Whenever you examine this to the Shimano Hollotech recall, the place there have been 4,620 recognized failure circumstances, 277 might appear to be a comparatively small quantity, nevertheless, as a proportion, that is round a 2% failure fee in comparison with Shimano’s 0.16%.
FSA has really useful all shoppers with affected cranks to get involved with an area supplier, the place they are going to be capable to have a brand new substitute crank fitted freed from cost.
For a full listing of affected bikes, and extra info and phone particulars, go to the Full Pace Forward web site.
