Ridstar
03-31-26 | 03:04 PM
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I read that the subject company has had 11 battery fires recently and the CPSC requested that they initiate a recall, but they refused (as Radpower did recently AFAIK). Buyer/owner beware.
03-31-26 | 05:44 PM
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Not surprising. I had to turn away a Radpower because it needed electrical work and judging by the rest of the bike being in absolutely poor shape and the battery under recall I was not going to take the risk. It is a shame unsafe stuff like this keeps happening and nobody is really stopping the flow.
04-01-26 | 12:38 AM
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The statement was 11 recent fires, but I didn't see a time frame. Whatever it was, the CPSC thought there was sufficient data for a recall. My purpose in posting this is to provide info on the apparent problem.
04-01-26 | 05:05 AM
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04-01-26 | 10:52 AM
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The scary aspect of the Rad post (to me) is the "recall" the CPSC requested was for fires in older products which implies that anyone owning a Rad may be riding a time bomb. My suspect batteries are maintained where I wouldn't die (hopefully) from a fire. As a comparison, several years ago when Pedego had a similar situation (but not with a CPSC requested recall (AIR), they replaced the batteries on every bike sold.
