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Bicycle Practice Area
Bicycle Expert

Our bicycle experts are riders with engineering backgrounds that can design, assemble and maintain a bicycle. Our work often involves reconstruction of how a collision occurred and how the rider was injured, whether there was a defect in the bicycle or its parts, or whether third party bicycle assembly or maintenance was a factor, and determination of whether the environment (road, street, path) or something in the environment (traffic signal, pothole, gate, grate, obstruction, bridge joint) was a factor. We do this for all types of bicycles: mountain, road, BMX, cross, downhill, recumbent, stationary and exercise.

Our experts inspect the bicycle and its components as well as motor vehicles that are involved, use data generated by scene investigators, use injury data, and apply the laws of physics and engineering and human factors concepts to determine how the collision occurred and the underlying causes. Involved experts could be: a bicycle expert; a human factors expert; a biomechanical engineer; a reconstructionist; and, a highway engineer.

  • Were the rider’s actions improper in a manner that was a cause of the collision?
  • Was the bicycle path, road or street improper in a manner that was a cause of the collision?
  • Was the failure to use a helmet a cause of the severity of the injury outcome ?
  • Was the bicycle properly sold and fitted to the rider?
  • Was the bicycle design, assembly or maintenance improper in a manner that was a cause of the collision?
  • Were components, aftermarket parts, or modifications a cause of the collision?

We have experience in every aspect of the bicycling world: we have ridden thousands of miles, operated and worked in shops, assembled hundreds of bicycles, repaired crashed bicycles, built custom wheels, designed and built frames, and “clean-sheet” engineered new bicycle models. We have worked professionally for bicycle manufacturers and raced bicycles competitively across the nation.

Related Articles/Documents
  • Roadway Defect Causes Bicycle Collision
    • Roadway Defect Causes Bicycle Collision

      A cyclist on a city street encountered a power company grate in the street, his front tire went into a gap in the grate, he crashed and was injured.

      We inspected the grate and showed that ordinary bicycle tires could readily be trapped by the gap, that the gap was in a normal bicycle travel path and that cyclist activity was common in the area. We also showed that gaps such as this have been known for a long time to be dangerous to cyclists, and that the gap made the grate dangerous in a manner that was a cause of the cyclist's crash and injuries.

      This event was typical of other bicycle collisions. The case resolved through settlement.

      View Full Case HERE

  • Bicycle Failure - Experts Investigate Bicycle Component Failure
    • Bicycle Failure - Experts Investigate Bicycle Component Failure

      A bicycle rider was catastrophically injured when he crashed a composite-framed, road bicycle. After the crash, the front fork (with wheel) and the right crankarm (with pedal) were found detached from the bicycle. The roadway in the area of the crash was unremarkable and not consistent with causing the crash. Robson Forensic was retained to determine if the bicycle was defective in a manner that caused the crash.

      View Full Case HERE

  • Parents' Expectations and Beliefs Toward the Relative Safety of Riding Bicycles at Night
    • Parents' Expectations and Beliefs Toward the Relative Safety of Riding Bicycles at Night

      This study examined parent’s expectations, attitudes, and perceptions toward the relative safety of their children riding bicycles at night with reflectors and/or head and tail lights.

      View Full Article HERE

  • Motorcycle Helmets - Expert Study on Consumers' Perception of Protection
    • Motorcycle Helmets - Expert Study on Consumers' Perception of Protection

      This study examined consumer beliefs towards the level of protection offered by motorcycle helmets varying in price ($35, $60, $120, $240); level of certification (none, DOT, SNELL, both DOT and Snell); and at high versus low speed lay-down type crashes.

      View Full Article HERE

  • Robson Forensic Cycling Expert Featured in Freeride Mountain Biking Video
    • Robson Forensic Cycling Expert Featured in Freeride Mountain Biking Video

      Watch Jeff Lenosky perform freeride stunts in a YouTube video clip from NWD7.

      View Full Video HERE

  • Rich Adams interviewed by uRide.TV at the 2010 Philadelphia Bike Expo
    • Rich Adams interviewed by uRide.TV at the 2010 Philadelphia Bike Expo

      Rich Adams briefly discusses his custom bicycle business and showcases some examples of his work at the 2010 Philadelphia Bike Expo.

      View Full Video HERE

  • MDC Ordered To Pay $2.9 Million To Injured Bicyclist
    • MDC Ordered To Pay $2.9 Million To Injured Bicyclist

      A Superior Court jury in Hartford awarded former children’s book illustrator $2.9 million for injuries suffered in a bicycle accident on land owned by the Metropolitan District Commission.

      View Full Verdicts \ Settlement HERE

  • Children's Expectations & Beliefs Toward the Relative Safety of Riding Bicycles at Night
    • Children's Expectations & Beliefs Toward the Relative Safety of Riding Bicycles at Night

      This study examined middle-school-aged children's expectations, attitudes, and perceptions toward the relative safety of riding bicycles at night with reflectors and/or head and tail lights.

      View Full Article HERE

  • Bicycle Defect Causes Crash
    • Bicycle Defect Causes Crash

      A man crashed his bicycle and suffered paralyzing injuries. According to a witness, the injured man was riding in front of him when he was suddenly catapulted from his bike and landed on his head.

      View Full Verdicts \ Settlement HERE

  • Bicycle Crash Reconstruction
    • Bicycle Crash Reconstruction

      Bicycle Crash Reconstruction involves the application of scientific and engineering principles to determine how the incident started and what initiated the loss of control. Vehicle speeds and positions at various times and distances are investigated, as well as the location of vehicles at impact.

      View Full Article HERE

  • Robson Forensic Brochure
    • Robson Forensic Brochure

      Robson Forensic has been providing high quality and professional forensic engineering, architectural, scientific and investigative services throughout the United States since 1987. Robson Forensic provides expertise in a broad range of forensic and technical disciplines.

      View Full Our Work HERE