tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post1660818233755908288..comments2024-02-15T04:42:41.606+00:00Comments on James' Empty Blog: Trek recall of 1,000,000 bicyclesJames Annanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-27557135307165508912015-04-29T22:58:19.338+01:002015-04-29T22:58:19.338+01:00http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/05/busi...<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/05/business/The-Fault-in-the-Cobalt-Ignition-Switch.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/05/business/The-Fault-in-the-Cobalt-Ignition-Switch.html</a><br /><br />This is a (slightly) similar problem. A jostling key turns the car's ignition switch off, potentially causing an accident. Maybe the biggest point of congruence with the QR issue was the long period of denial of the problem by the manufacturers. Another is that as QR mechanisms where designed in the era before bicycle disk brakes, GM also designed ignition switches in the era before people attached to car keys to loaded-up carabiners.crfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726414637021391906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-65177478137578347222015-04-24T11:16:40.853+01:002015-04-24T11:16:40.853+01:00Well they would say that wouldn't they.Well they would say that wouldn't they.James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-72214810717367123862015-04-24T10:19:51.597+01:002015-04-24T10:19:51.597+01:00Trek seem to be advising people that the QR will n...Trek seem to be advising people that the QR will not open by itself if installed correctly.<br /><br />http://singletrackworld.com/2015/04/qrdisc-brake-recall-update/#comment-32994Alocacocehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07801663790721601590noreply@blogger.com