Weehoo bicycles and bicycle parts
2 reports to CPSC, the latest made Jun 8, 2021. A report isn’t a recall.
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At a glance
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- 2reports to CPSC
- Jun 8, 2021the latest report was made
- Jun 15, 2019the earliest
- 0with the company’s comments
- Brand
- Weehoo
- Maker
- Weehoo IncorporatedMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
- Product
- Bicycles and bicycle partsNot mountain or all-terrain bicyclesCPSC’s product type: Bicycles and Accessories, (Excl.mountain or All-terrain) (code 5040), in Sports and Recreation: Cycling, Scooters, Skateboards & Skates
By month
The numbers, as a table
| Month | Reports |
|---|---|
| June 2021 | 1 |
| June 2019 | 1 |
How badly anyone was hurt
- No one hurt 1 CPSC: Incident, No Injury
- No incident, no one hurt 1 CPSC: No Incident, No Injury
As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.
The reports, as CPSC published them
Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.
Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.
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No incident, no one hurt Made Jun 8, 2021, sent to the company Jun 30, 2021, published by CPSC Jul 15, 2021
The product, in the report: Product type: childs bicycle trailer to enable towing from an adult bike, attached via a clamp to the adult bike’s seat post. Brand: Weehoo Model iGo Turbo (i.e. the one with the pedals) Color: silver frame with red polyester seat and bags Purchased: March 2018 directly from manufacturer Model iGo Turbo https://rideweehoo.com/products-weehoo-bike-trailers/turbo-bike-trailer-and-trailer-bike Manufacturer’s description: PROPULSION : PEDALING AGES RANGE: 2-9 LOAD CAPACITY: 80LBS / 36KG PASSENGERS: 1 CARGO STORAGE: 14l WEIGHT: 26LBS/ 12KG
We have a Weehoo brand child’s bike trailer (model “iGo Turbo) that enables a child to be towed and/or pedal behind an adult bike. It was purchased on March 20, 2018 directly from https://rideweehoo.com The wheel of the trailer has been wobbling for about a week so I looked and attempted to tighten the wheel per the video instructions on their website, at which point the entire rear wheel drop out (on the “non drive” side, i.e. the side without the chain) snapped in half. My suspicion is that this frame area was already weakening/fatiguing as I had not really begun to tighten it when it failed with a cracking sound. The trailer has always been stored indoors in an insulated garage and ridden in fair/dry weather with our child. The trailer is rated to 80 lb cargo/child capacity, our child is nowhere close to this limit (currently under 55 lbs). We have used it in good weather to take our son to school and on short rides around town. We do not use it to “mountain bike” or on non-paved trails (i.e. we have only used this trailer as it was intended.) Fortunately no one was on the bike at the time and there were no injuries.
In looking at the frame design, it looks quite flawed/unsafe which is why I am making this report. Maybe by now the new models are better but there must be hundreds or thousands like our still in use as Weehoo is one of the only companies on the market I know of that make this kind of trailer and it is much loved by many parents. (Including us til last week!) On the drive (chain) side, the drop out and chain stay is quite strong and large. One the non-drive side, I have frankly never seen such a thin drop out or chain stay on a bike. Because it is typically covered up by the cargo panniers/bags, you don’t normally see the rear stays so it is possible many people like myself never noticed it before. Even if the rear wheel is primarily being held by the drive side drop out and chain stay, typically bikes are made with two strong rear dropouts for a reason, due to the risk of the rear wheel detaching or hitting the frame. The non-drive chain stay is also the rear “cargo rack” on which the bike bags are attached, so this part of the frame is doing “double duty” as both bike frame and rack. Again, this is not a typical bike design because it makes for high loads on the frame. The cargo bikes I am familiar with that use that sort of design typically employ very large diameter, thick, overbuilt tubing to support the high demands placed on the frame in that situation.
I am not a bike builder but am a long time recreational and long distance cyclist with a fair amount of experience with bikes over the years. It could be that this design doesn’t create the safety risk that I think it does, but even if the wheel stays in place despite the possibility of a crack/partial crack in the rear drop out, it still creates a risk that the cargo or the “cargo rack” part of the frame would loosen/twist and end up tangled in the rear wheel so again this just seems like a fairly concerning design. Again, I know that bike frames are inherently have a small potential of failure/fatigue, and at the drop outs particularly, but this design just seems unnecessarily risky.
- Model
- iGo Turbo
- Bought from
- https:/
/ rideweehoo.com - Bought
- Mar 20, 2018
- Where
- West Lafayette, Indiana: Home/
Apartment/ Condominium - Who was involved
- Age 6, Male
- The reporter’s relation to them
- My Child
- As this report names them
- Brand Weehoo, made or sold by Weehoo Incorporated
- How badly, in CPSC’s words
- No Incident, No Injury
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No one hurt Made Jun 15, 2019, sent to the company Jul 2, 2019, published by CPSC Jul 24, 2019
The product, in the report: Weehoo turbo bike trailer
My child was being pulled in the weehoo bike trailer. We were not aware of any recalls. The metal part of the trailer cracked and our child was riding sideways. He did not fall out of the. Trailer and was not injured
- Where
- Rapid City, South Dakota: Place of Recreation or Sports
- Who was involved
- Age 3, Male
- The reporter’s relation to them
- My Child
- As this report names them
- Brand Weehoo, made or sold by Weehoo Incorporated
- How badly, in CPSC’s words
- Incident, No Injury
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