5Color Recalls Children’s Bicycle Helmet and Pads Sets Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Head Injury; Violate Mandatory Standard for Bicycle Helmets

Official recall facts

CPSC published recall 26789 on 2026-09-24. Check the product description and official notice to determine which items are affected.

Hazard

• The helmets in the recalled sets violate the mandatory safety standard for bicycle helmets because the helmets do not comply with the impact attenuation, retention system, positional stability, labeling and certification requirements. The helmets can fail to protect the user in the event of a crash, posing a serious risk of injury or death due to head injury.

Official remedy

• Consumers should stop using the helmets immediately and contact 5Color for a full refund of the set. Consumers will be asked to destroy the recalled helmet by cutting the straps and email a photo of the destroyed helmet to FiveColorCS@163.com. Consumers should then dispose of the recalled helmet. Consumers may keep the protection pads.

5Color toll free at 833-382-6461 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. CT Monday through Friday or email at FiveColorCS@163.com.

Read the official CPSC recall notice

Identify the recalled product

Compare these photographs with the product description and model details below; appearance alone does not confirm that your item is recalled.

Photo source: CPSC recall notice. Photographs and captions are reproduced with the recall information; CPSC does not endorse CiteFacts. Images load directly from CPSC.

Products

• 5Color Children’s Bike Helmet and Pads Sets

Deterministic enrichment

• Product identifiers: 5Color Children’s Bike Helmet and Pads Sets
• Explicit remedy actions: stop use, refund, dispose
• Safely parsed reported counts: incidents: 0

Publisher normalization using cpsc-deterministic-enrichment 1.0.0. Raw source text, field paths, and abstentions are in the JSON record; this is not CPSC advice.

Description

This recall involves 5Color-branded bicycle helmet and pads sets. The sets consist of a pink helmet, knee and elbow pads. Only the size small helmets are included in this recall. The helmets are size small (S), fitting a head circumference of about 18 to 22 inches, and have black padding, black straps, a black and a black fit-adjusting knob at the back. “2026/03/20” are included in this recall. “Model No.: YD-001,” “Lot/Ref: YD-260320” and “Date 2026/03/20” are printed on a label on the inside of the helmet and on the product packaging.

Reported incidents: None reported

Check products you own

Check this product alongside up to 49 other descriptions, model numbers, or UPCs. Results keep confirmed candidates, possible candidates, and no-known-match states separate.

Open the recall checker