You've got lots of opinions here already, but I'll say that I really wasn't comfortable with the front child seat. It felt like it was going to get in the way of my steering and manouevering, but then my daughter got tall really fast. We used a CoPilot Limo rear seat for a couple of years and it worked quite well. I just had to remember not to try to swing my leg over the back of the bike to get off. I never did it with the kid on the bike, but did knock myself over once that way trying to get off with no kid on board. I did find that as my daughter's weight got up around 30lbs, that the child seat and child on top of a tall (64cm) Atlantis tended get rather top-heavy and unwieldy.
We then graduated to a Chariot trailer. I started with the two seater, but it didn't fit through our door here in NYC so I downgraded to the one seater. This has worked quite well, though it's not cheap, kind of the Cadillac of trailers. It pulls easily, is very sturdy and comfortable. Some people have express concerns about trailers in traffic but I've found that with a bright colored kids trailer and lots of reflectors/flashers, cars are actually more respectful around me. I don't ride the busiest streets, but on side streets, they tend to pass with more room and the kid almost always get smiles and waves from drives when we stop at traffic lights. I've ridden her across town to school for the last two years in the trailer and it's worked well. I always figured that if a car tapped us on a bike we were all going down, but at least with the trailer, they're not going to fall hard on asphalt. We've got a trail-a-bike now, so far only for bike path use. I'm not in love with it at all, though. It works ok, but definitely affects the handling of my bike for the worse. I may try to graduate us to a Bike Friday tandem soon which apparently has a rear seat that can be adjusted from child to adult heights. Happy riding! Peter NYC On Mar 19, 9:38 am, Weird Harold <alanpcr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My daughter is 21 months, and I think it's time to get her up on a > bike with me. Any recommendations for child bike seats? Front or Rear? -- 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.
