Oh, Come On! Part Of Front Fender Somehow Broke Off

[Aufgeblassen47]

I have no idea how/why or when it happened. Just looked at at when parked and it looked odd until I realized what happened. pps:

Anyone else see/hear of something like this?

Much of what broke off was attached to inner fender piece, and not hard mounted. I wonder if it vibrates and fatigues the plastic where it broke?

 

[Aufgeblassen47]

Update: Upon examination, said piece indeed flaps with road bumps/vibration!!! Plastic fatigue is exactly what happened.

 

[Markubis]

How many miles do you have on your Ryker?

 

[DGoebel]

I'd like to see a zoomed out photo, is this the flap on the trailing edge of the fender, seemed like it would help with shedding rain, but could be easily stepped on.

 

[poli]

Looks like it hit something in the road and broke.

 

[Aufgeblassen47]

Looks like it hit something in the road and broke.

Nope. Nothing hit. Try pushing up & down on yours. You see how easily it flaps. Broke right where the fatigue line would be.

 

[Aufgeblassen47]

How many miles do you have on your Ryker?

A mere 800 miles mostly at lower speed around town, and suburbs and max. 60 MPH on fairly smooth roads.

The thin walled tab on what the broken part attaches to is broke too. Don't know which happened 1st.
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[poli]

I have almost 3000 on mine with about 2000 of that on dirt roads bouncing around! What I've put mine through is probably equivalent to 30000 street miles and have had no issues with any of the plastic.

 

[MDLNB]

Strange

 

[Aufgeblassen47]

I have almost 3000 on mine with about 2000 of that on dirt roads bouncing around! What I've put mine through is probably equivalent to 30000 street miles and have had no issues with any of the plastic.

That only proves that my part must have been defective. Hopefully replacement and other side will last the life of the trike.

I think I'll still rivet the two pieces of plastic together, so the act as one solid unit. And if it still breaks someday, at least the piece will still be there for repair.

 

[graysonsway]

We have Ryker ' and both are 's 600's My finders on my bike are OK at this time. On my wife ryker the left finder is in good shape. The right fender has a hair line crack. There is more give in the finder that has a crack in the finder. The other three are more rigid. It will break someday.

 

[Aufgeblassen47]

Not sure what the "finder" is. Please explain.

 

[ARtraveler]

Probably meant fender. That is in there at least once.

 

[Aufgeblassen47]

Probably meant fender. That is in there at least once.

OK. My bad!

 

[Wildrice]

Probably meant fender. That is in there at least once.

He was trying to "Find" his "Fender"

 

[Mikey]

Update: Upon examination, said piece indeed flaps with road bumps/vibration!!! Plastic fatigue is exactly what happened.

You got to keep the old girl on all three on those speed bumps!!!! That bad air will get ya every time!!:shemademe_smilie::b2b:

 

[Aufgeblassen47]

You got to keep the old girl on all three on those speed bumps!!!! That bad air will get ya every time!!:shemademe_smilie::b2b:

One would need to go over a series of 100s of speed bumps to create enough plastic fatigue to cause failure.

 

[Chupaca]

Defective....

From what has been said here it is looking more like an injection problem at production of the plastic part. May be in a particular lot may be random. Something to watch for and see if there are more happening....:thumbup:

 

[Aufgeblassen47]

From what has been said here it is looking more like an injection problem at production of the plastic part. May be in a particular lot may be random. Something to watch for and see if there are more happening....:thumbup:

It is a sharp angle where the piece that broke off was attached to the vertical component. Stresses are always high at such places without a gusseted or curved corner. Bad design.

 

[ARtraveler]

Based on all the information so far...

Might be a good idea to have a conversation with your dealer and see if they are going to cover it for you. We would all like to know what happens. opcorn: