Remember that scene from Better Off Dead, when the paper boy (”I want my two dollars!”) is on his bike chasing John Cusack down a mountain, and he loses control and goes flying over a cliff? Funny in the movie, not so funny if it happened in real life.

That’s why if you have a children’s bike trailer manufactured by Pacific Cycle, you may want to check it out since over 7,000 of them are being recalled. The problem is the coupler that attaches it to the adult bike has welds that may fail — and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what could happen if that happened (see first paragraph).

The recall affects trailers manufactured under the InStep “Pathfinder”, Schwinn “Run About”, and Mongoose “Alley Cat” labels, sold between January - August 2007. Depending on which model you have, visit the appropriate bicycle company website for more details, including an image as to if the welding on your particular trailer is safe or not.

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