Yes, what started as just a peanut butter problem has expanded to peanuts and other peanut products. The recalls of peanut products has expanded to quite a long list, including dog treats. I’m not implying any cyclists eat dog treats but…

Peanut Corporation of America has now expanded their recall to all products from the Blakely, Georgia plant produced from January 2007 to present – yikes! It’s possible they distributed contaminated products to over 100 firms. Anyway, if you’re at all concerned check the ever-expanding list of recalls at FDA. If in doubt, toss it out.

As if Salmonella’s not bad enough, now you can fall off your trainer, too.

Saris Cycling Group Recalls Stationary Bicycle Trainers Due to Fall Hazard – info

Some other recalls over the last few months that may be of interest:

Giant Bicycle, Inc. Recalls Bicycles; Fork Can Break Causing Rider To Fall – info

Bicycles with RockShox Bicycle Forks Recalled by SRAM LLC Due to Crash Hazard – info

Magura USA Recalls Bicycle Suspension Forks Due to Crash Hazard – info

Shimano American Corp. Recalls Wheels for Bicycles; Flat Tire Can Pose Injury Risk to Riders – info

All you peanut butter fanatics might want to check your cabinets. Clif Bar has announced a voluntary recall on their products containing peanut butter. The peanut butter in some of their products was, for a limited time, sourced from the Peanut Corporation of America, the company confirmed to be the source of the recent Salmonella outbreak. For more information, visit the Clif Bar site.

There is a comforting yet creepy aspect to this and that’s in how we found out about the recall. We received a recorded message from Costco letting us know about the recall and advising that we destroy any Clif Bars we have. It’s comforting to know they went to the effort to notify us but it’s a little creepy that they keep such close records of what we buy.

Kudos to Clif Bar for being proactive – it had to be a difficult decision to make.

We’ve updated our component data. It now includes two lists (grids). The first is a grid that shows which manufacturer builds which parts and it also has links to their websites. The second is a grid that shows gruppo data, specifically weight and price of each component, along with a sampling of gruppo prices from several retailers. Check it out at “components” above. We suspect the gruppo prices may vary widely over the next few months.

There’s still lots of tweaks to do and content and updated data to be added but thebikeframe.com is completely remodeled and functional.

A brief of what’s currently available:

- Searchable data, including dimensions, price* and weight*, on nearly every road bike frame available for sale in the US. Currently 2007 data and updating to 2009 data. 2009 data will include even more hand-built custom frames.

- Searchable data, including specifications and price*, on nearly every pre-built road bike wheel available for sale in the US. Currently 2008 data and updating to 2009 data.

- Data on all frame builders that have frames in our database.

- Data on all wheel builders that have wheels in our database.

- Grid of component manufacturers and what they make. Currently 2008 data.

- Images of frames and wheels. Currently limited images of 2008 wheels. Will be dating to 2009 for frames and wheels over the next few weeks.

*where available

We’re remodeling thebikeframe.com website. Our work should be complete in the next few days. If something’s not functional today please return and try again later. Thanks.