Bicycle Experts

Our bicycle experts are all riders and some have engineering backgrounds related to their work. Some can design, assemble and maintain a bicycle. Some know about roadway safety standards for bicycles. The bicycle experts are supported by experts in Human Factors, Meteorology and other disciplines.

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 a bicycle race or event organized and conducted in a safe manner?
• 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 competed in bicycle races across the nation.