The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that the broken bike seat could cause injuries like lacerations and bruises.
It turns out that a bike that goes nowhere may send you to the emergency room.
On Thursday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Peloton, the company that made exercising from home both addictive and fancy, was recalling roughly 2 million bikes due to a faulty seat. Peloton, according to the release, has received 35 reports of the seat breaking, which has resulted in some 12 injuries that include “fractured wrist, lacerations and bruises” caused by falling from the bike.
This is the second recall that Peloton has faced. In 2021, the company recalled 125,000 of its treadmills and offered full refunds because of safety hazards, mainly “adult users, children, pets and/or objects” were “pulled under the rear of the treadmill.
