Aventon Recollects Sinch.2 Folding E-Bike As a result of Crash Hazard From ‘Accelerating Unexpectedly’

Greater than 2,000 of Aventon’s fashionable e-bikes have been recalled, the corporate introduced final week.

House owners of Sinch.2 bicycles ought to cease utilizing them and search a free restore as quickly as attainable, in response to an announcement from the U.S. Client Product Security Fee (CPSC).

These folding, 500W e-bikes had been accessible in quicksilver and sapphire colours. They had been bought at varied areas, together with bicycle shops nationwide and on-line retailers, from April to August 2023 with a price ticket of about $1,800.

The recall, which impacts about 2,300 bikes, was initiated over considerations concerning surprising acceleration within the Aventon Sinch.2 e-bikes, which may result in a lack of management, posing potential crash and damage hazards. Though the CPSC studies that Journey Aventon Inc. has acquired six studies of the e-bikes “accelerating unexpectedly,” no accidents have been reported to date.

Free repairs can be found by a Journey Aventon licensed supplier. That entails a software program replace to the controller to handle the acceleration difficulty.

For extra details about the recall, contact Journey Aventon at 866-300-3311 throughout their enterprise hours or attain out by way of electronic mail at data@aventon.com. Additional particulars will also be discovered on the Aventon recall web page.