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DON'T BUY BICYCLE HELMETS ON AMAZON (especially from random-characters-strung-together stores)

CPSC: Aisstxoer Adult Bicycle Helmets Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Head Injury; Violates Mandatory Standard for Bicycle Helmets; Sold on Amazon by YXTDZ Store

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Aisstxoer-Adult-Bicycle-Helmets-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Head-Injury-Violates-Mandatory-Standard-for-Bicycle-Helmets-Sold-on-Amazon-by-YXTDZ-Store

#BikeTooter #recall #bicycles #helmet

Aisstxoer Adult Bicycle Helmets Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Head Injury; Violates Mandatory Standard for Bicycle Helmets; Sold on Amazon by YXTDZ Store

Consumers should stop using the recalled adult helmets immediately and contact YXTDZ Store for a full refund. Consumers will be asked to destroy the recalled helmet by cutting the straps and email a photo of the destroyed helmet to [email protected].

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

irrational method 2d ago

Everyone says you shouldn't buy from Amazon because Jeff Bezos is a terrible person and the company has terrible labor practices (both true)

But the biggest thing that has me shopping elsewhere (most of the time) is that I would not buy anything from them where my safety or life depends on it.

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@IrrationalMethod Yeah, I try to avoid it as much as I can, although there appears to be a class of stuff you can't get anywhere else (namely, imported, random Chinese electronic components/cables/doohickies). Which is annoying.

irrational method 2d ago

I uh, just placed an order for those this morning, along with a replacement phone case. I had a few SMA connector/adapter bits in my cart, the total pushed me into free shipping.

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@IrrationalMethod Yeah, I have tried to acquire some of those things and they're just not available other channels... perhaps eBay. Or AliExpress, although AliExpress refuses to let me order anything and I don't trust sucking my phone number and all my personal info into the maw of Chinese surveillance. It's bad enough being in the maw of US surveillance lol.

@ai6yr This is a general problem on Amazon and other online retailers.

I fail to understand how any government regulators allow blatantly non-conforming products to be sold online.

I should not be able to purchase non-UL listed electrical equipment either.

The public interest is not at all served here - it is simply extracting money for something that does not meet the standards, and that consumers buy because it's cheap, assuming that regulations are enforced.

There are UL listed electronics available, I just bought some COB lights for my home office. They cost a bit more and I had to pay more for a UL listed power supply. But at least it won't catch fire - probably.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial 2d ago

@ai6yr never buy ANYTHING safety critical from Amazon, unless you have verified that it is being sold by the manufacturer's verified store page. Amazon identifies products based on SKU only, which means there's a potential one-to-many between listings and actual products; all a seller has to do is ship Amazon a product with the same barcode and they're in the running for sales of "that product", even if their version has none of the safety certs.

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@gsuberland Yep, comingled inventory and dishonest sellers is an actual scam

@gsuberland @ai6yr amazon has become the US's version of alibaba

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@Viss @gsuberland This is actually the case of many other retailers, too... Walmart, etc. who have "third party sellers"

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial 2d ago

@ai6yr @Viss almost all high street clothing, homeware, and diy retailers in the UK are like this now. seas of dropshipped crap cluttering up every category.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial 2d ago

@Viss @ai6yr I'd say that's bordering on being rude to Alibaba.

@gsuberland @ai6yr or was i thinking aliexpress? which one is shadier?

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial 2d ago

@Viss @ai6yr AliExpress has more crap by volume but also a lot of good stuff and you typically get what you ordered. Alibaba is typically direct factory sale but if you buy from the West and don't have a local liaison to check quality and verify it before it goes out you are at high risk of being scammed.

@gsuberland @ai6yr it also doesnt help that broadly speaking, americans are happily dumbing themselves down at the behest of popular culture, media, the news and various other factors that reward the stupid and either neglect or overtly punish anybody with a clue, so scamming americans is definitely a thing now. there are whole economies built on it

@gsuberland @ai6yr like, we famously came up with the tide pod challenge, for example

AI6YR Ben 2d ago

@Viss @gsuberland (man makes strange gesture at Washington, DC)

@ai6yr @gsuberland oh yes, injecting bleach as a recco straight from the whitehouse. and most recently, shoving carrots up your ass, i think? i dunno i try to actively avoid news out of dc these days. it hurts the brain

Chris Petrilli 2d ago

@gsuberland @Viss @ai6yr really more Temu

@petrillic @gsuberland @ai6yr oh shit i forgot about temu

Chris Petrilli 2d ago

@Viss @gsuberland @ai6yr

@gsuberland @ai6yr

Mark Wollschlager 2d ago

@ai6yr I wonder if these helmets are made by the guy that touts recycled plastic in youtube ads. Seems legit.