Cannondale Recalls Bicycles With Carbon Crankset

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Cannondale is conducting a recall of the cranksets on the following models. If you own one of these bicycles please stop riding it until you can take it to a Cannondale dealer for a mandatory inspection.

2007 Road Bikes:
Synapse Carbon SL1 Compact drive
Ironman 1, Si Carbon Standard drive
System 6 Team 1 Compact drive and Standard drive
System 6 Team 3 Compact drive and Standard drive
Cyclocross SLl 1 Compact drive

2007 Mountain Bikes:
Taurine 1 SL
Rush Carbon 2

2007 Framesets & Cranksets:
Synapse SL Si
System 6 Team SI
Ironman 613 SL
CAAD 9 Cyclocross Si
All carbon Si road and mountain cranksets

2008 Road Bikes:
System 6 Liquigas 3 Compact and Standard Drive

What’s wrong? FSA incorrectly heat treated the aluminum bottom bracket spindles on some of these bikes. This manufacturing error caused cracks that can lead to a complete crankset failure, with risk of serious injury or death.

A pdf-Sheet with all Information you can get here.