With the little ones, the front seat's got 'em right there if, somehow, anything bad happens. Our rides sometimes include some city riding, and I'm not cool with a trailer while out in traffic. Of course, care is taken in choosing routes that have little or no traffic. But sometimes, you gotta cross that road. I'd rather have the kids on the bike...
Plus, they see everything and you can talk... whispering into their ear and pointing out sights to be seen. With my daughter in the Bobike, our rides along the San Diego River are full of conversations of sea birds, the tides, the moon, salt marsh, fish, favorite colors, etc. Its truly wonderful. She's right there and can see everything and feel everything. Eventually, when our 7 month old is ready for the Mini, the 4 year old will go on the back, likely on a Bobike Jr. I'll miss her up there! I mean, does it get any better than this? http://www.flickr.com/photos/25671...@n02/3956633337/ The Bobike Mini threadless mount probably takes the space used by 20mm of spacers. They have a threaded mount too that will work on most Rivendells. I have friends with both the Topeak seat and the green one and they like them very much as well. I've seen a little sidecar around the internets. That might be cool! Just avoid ant hills. Especially the big, red, nasty ants. Esteban San Diego, Calif. On Mar 19, 10:08 am, 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. -- 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.
