On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 7:56:56 PM UTC-8, Doug Williams wrote: > > I'm weaving flowers into my beard right now and looking for a lugged steel > maypole. Care to join me? From SRAM and the Bike Snob New York: > > Doug > > > *It has recently come to our attention that during last weekend’s > Cyclocross racing in the US, in sub freezing temperatures, several failures > were reported. In these conditions the master cylinder seals failed to hold > pressure resulting in abrupt loss of brake power, and an inability to stop > the bike. These failures are related to product that is outside the > originally stated date code range and unrelated to the original failure > mode. No injuries have been reported to date.* > > *As a result of this new finding, SRAM requests that anyone who has a bike > equipped with SRAM Hydraulic Disc or Hydraulic Rim Brakes stop using the > bike immediately. All products shipped to date, and currently in the market > or in inventory will be recalled.* > > Upon reading this, retrogrouches around the world wove flowers into their > beards and danced arm-in-arm around the lugged steel maypole, reveling in > the irony that the very conditions in which hydrolic dick breaks are > supposed to excel were instead their undoing. Meanwhile, the experts at > SRAM have been working around the clock to find a new way to convince > people that you need hydraulic braking for slow bicycle races that last > only 45 minutes to an hour in which you have access to a spare bicycle > roughly every five minutes. > > As for the hydraulic rim brakes, all SRAM has to say about that is that if > you actually bought those then the joke's on you. >
Its actually worse, this is going to be very expensive for Sram: http://www.bicycleretailer.com/recalls/2013/12/17/sram-says-brake-recall-disruptive-and-painful#.UrEgovRDuSo I can see the lawyers lining up now..... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
