Peloton issues recall for 833,000 bikes over faulty seat posts

Peloton is recalling astir 833,000 of its archetypal Bike Plus machines, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The crushed being that the spot station tin interruption and detach during use, with Peloton receiving 3 reports of breakages and 2 reports of injuries resulting from falls.

The affected Bike Plus units were sold betwixt January 2020 and April 2025, and were manufactured successful Taiwan from 2019 to 2022. The bikes were sold some from Peloton directly, and done third-party retailers similar Dick’s Sporting Goods, eBay, and Amazon. To cheque whether your Bike Plus is affected, it should person the exemplary fig PL02 and serial numbers opening with “T.” As a remedy, Peloton is offering a escaped redesigned spot station replacement that owners tin instal themselves.

The callback does not impact the caller Bike Plus Cross Training series, which launched successful October.

“The integrity of our products and our Members’ well-being are our apical priorities. We are taking this accidental to marque replacement spot posts disposable to each affected Bike Plus users and we promote them to interaction america to person the redesigned spot station arsenic soon arsenic possible,” Marcio Oliveira, Peloton’s elder vice president of Global Hardware Operations and Product Safety, tells The Verge.

This is the 2nd callback for Peloton motorcycle spot posts. The archetypal was successful 2023 for the basal exemplary archetypal Bike, and affected 2 cardinal units with 35 reports of breakages and 13 injuries. The archetypal Bike and Bike Plus, portion akin products, diagnostic somewhat antithetic spot station designs.

The callback comes a delicate clip for Peloton. The institution volition denote net aboriginal contiguous astatine 5PM ET, and this quarter’s net are peculiarly important fixed it’s the archetypal aft Peloton’s ambitious hardware refresh and deep-dive into a caller AI fittingness coaching feature.

Update, November 6th: Peloton’s connection attribution has been updated.