Hey Harold, I've got a Hamax Siesta Recliner on a Surly Big Dummy. My son's 19 months and he's been riding around in it for a few months. He'll fall asleep in it (gentle rocking motion on quiet roads and smooth trails) and we recline it which supports his little head (we pop a soft hat on him too to give him a bit more cush). The seat doesn't interfere with load carrying on that bike which is great. Pricewise, it's fairly reasonable. A neat feature is that it's removable using the quick release on the bracket (which is mounted to the seat tube) - useful little indicators that tell you when it's locked in place. Hamax also sell spare brackets which makes using the seat on multiple bikes a synch. I've attached one of the big red triangles to the back of the seat for extra viz. Takes kids up to 22kg so he can use it for a while too. I've not affiliation with Hamax nor tried others but I'm very pleased with this one.
On Mar 19, 5:08 pm, Dustin Sharp <paleo.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gotta say . . . One of my earliest memories--I must have been 3 or so--is my > mom going down on her tenspeed with me on the rear-mounted child seat. None > of us were wearing helmets, of course. > > I survived, but happened to fall in an ant pile. That sucked. > > Dustin > > > > > From: William <tapebu...@gmail.com> > > Reply-To: <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> > > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:00:32 -0700 (PDT) > > To: RBW Owners Bunch <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> > > Subject: [RBW] Re: Child seat recommendations? > > > I think that the US is completely out of synch with the rest of the > > world in terms of what is considered safe and what is not. The > > thinking that leads to the trailer recommendation is that the higher > > you mount your child to the bike, the harder they hit the ground when > > your bike goes down. Most trailers don't tip over at all when the > > bike falls, which is certainly nice. The things that have to be > > balanced against that feature is that trailers are much more > > expensive, much heavier, much harder to secure when parking, virtually > > impossible to incorporate with any public transportation. Possibly > > most importantly, your vehicle is now so massive that riding in > > traffic is terrifying for many, and it is easy to assume that the risk > > of being hit by a vehicle is increased. > > > If you apply the same logic that Grant uses to rationalize not wearing > > a helmet, you will claim that riding with your small child on the bike > > makes you so much more careful that the remote chance of you going DOG > > (down on ground) is rendered infinitessimally small. If that risk is > > acceptable, then a smaller, cheaper option that gives you the ability > > to have your child right there with you, in your view, where you can > > talk to her, is likely to work fine. > > > I used a Burley Solo trailer, partially because my wife was scared of > > falls, and we kept our kid rides to bike paths only. I have since > > converted that trailer to cargo, which is a cool conversion that is > > possible with a nice trailer. The other reason we did that was that > > all my bikes were lightweight go-fasts when my kids were small that > > didn't take kidseats well. > > > On Mar 19, 9:22 am, Weird Harold <alanpcr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> I just read that the American Association of Pediatrics recommends > >> trailers instead of bike seats. Any opinions on that? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW > > Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
