Burley sets up trailer recall.Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard Nearly 3,000 of Burley bur·ley n. pl. bur·leys A light-colored tobacco grown chiefly in Kentucky and used especially in making cigarettes. [Probably from the name Burley.] Design's child trailers, made to be hitched to bicycles, are being recalled because a defect defect - bug can cause one of the trailer's wheels to fall off, the company and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday. Burley, a Eugene company with 20 employees, was founded 31 years ago and pioneered the market for the two-wheeled trailers used by cyclists This is an incomplete list. Please add to this list if you are aware of an omission. This is a list of cyclists by decade. Cyclists by decade Cyclists before the 1880s
Burley touts its reputation for safety. The company was instrumental in helping to develop national safety standards Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory. for the trailers, and it says its products greatly exceed those standards. The recall covers 2,700 of Burley's top-of-the-line 2009 d'lite ST and Solo ST child trailers, which were manufactured in the Philippines. A sleeve Pin or shaft on or with which wheels revolve; with fixed wheels, one of the basic simple machines for amplifying force. Combined with the wheel, in its earliest form it was probably used for raising weights or water buckets from wells. assembly can loosen, causing one wheel to come off the trailer In communications, a code or set of codes that make up the last part of a transmitted message. See trailer label. , risking injury to the child or bike rider, the commission said. "There have been no injuries thus far," said Riana Linsky, a Burley sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → . "There was only one incidence of this happening - in Germany - and it happened while the trailer was being assembled as·sem·ble v. as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. 2. , not when it was in use," she said. "Because we're so interested in safety, we decided to make this public and voluntarily recall the trailers, so potentially there aren't any injuries down the road." The problem arose from a manufacturing error, Linsky said. "One (step) in the manufacturing process was skipped," she said. The error was not caught in quality control because the manufacturing process that was skipped cannot be visually identified," Linsky said. "We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if it was missed on 100 trailers or all 2,700 trailers," she said. "So that's why we issued the voluntary recall on all (2,700) trailers." Consumers should stop using the trailers and contact Burley for a free repair kit or help in finding a retailer to assist with free repairs, the company said. The trailers were sold by bike and specialty outdoor retailers and on the Internet from November 2008 through June 2009 for $550 and $600. About half the trailers were sold in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and half in Europe and Canada, Linsky said. Recalls are also under way in other countries where the trailers were sold, she said. In its three-decade history, Burley has had only one other recall, Linsky said. In 2000, the company issued a voluntary recall of about 2,200 Burley-Bravo bicycle trailers A bicycle trailer is a motorless wheeled frame with a hitch system designed for transporting cargo by bicycle. A bicycle trailer expands the cargo-carrying capacity of a bicycle greatly, allowing point-to-point transport of objects up to 4 cubic yards (3 cubic meters) in volume and - again out of concern that a wheel could separate from the trailers. After 28 years as a worker-owned cooperative, the business converted to a privately owned corporation in June 2006. Eugene businessman Michael Coughlin bought the company in September 2006. The company has struggled financially since 2003. Linsky said it is projecting a profit this year. After decades of manufacturing its products in Eugene, the company recently began contracting with Asian manufacturers. That has no bearing on the recall, Linsky said. "The potential for this failure could still happen here," she said, adding that the earlier recall dealt with products manufactured in Eugene. Linsky said the voluntary recall had been well-received by dealers. "Our dealers have been very understanding, as there are recalls in the bike industry almost on a daily basis," she said. Len Schvaneveldt, manager of Hutch's bike shop in Eugene, predicts the recall will have little impact on Burley's business. "This is just normal," he said. "With all businesses there are just government regulations for how things are supposed to be, and if they don't meet them, you've got to fix them." BURLEY RECALL What: The recall covers 2009 d'lite ST and Solo ST two-wheeled child trailers with serial numbers starting with D939 or D948. The serial number is located behind the seat on the lower left rear frame tube. Why: A defect can cause one of the trailer's wheels to fall off. Information: Burley's help line (800) 311-5294 is open between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Or go online at burley.com/STProductRecall. To report product-related incidents or injuries to the safety commission, go to https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/incident.aspx. |
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