Is there a safety issue with the latches coming undone during riding?
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Grant - YikeBike
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Each of the latches has been designed with safety in mind to minimize the chance of failure:
- the rear leg has been designed so the bike can be ridden even without the latch being done up (not recommended though)
- the seat latch is a double acting over centre mechanism. This is the only latch that has ever broken in testing and because it only causes the seat to go down a few inches this did not cause the riders to hit the ground. This has been redesigned and tested to destruction at double the force
- the front wheel latch has no force on it in normal riding position but it is under load on braking - it is a double acting over centre cam mechanism to avoid unlatching. This braking and accelerating has been tested over 10,000 cycles with a 100 kg load.
- the handle bars would feel loose if the latch became undone but the YikeBike would still be ridable.
