+1 for a trailer. One advantage of a trailer is that you can use it with a bike that is not well suited for a heavy load on the rear rack; and I agree, they don't change the handling and feel of the bike as much as a big and high rear-rack weight does. And they allow easier mounting.
Mine was a "doublewide" and let me combine child hauling with grocery shopping: my daughter and I would combine bicycle fun with grocery shopping on Saturday mornings, she on one side, the paper grocery sacks on the other, usually with a helium balloon or two in our slipstream. My tractor was a early-edition Raleigh Technium sports tourer, a tank with long stays and flexy tubes stuck into gaspipe lugs, but with 32 mm tires (fat at the time, early '00s) it was very plush. I had it set up with a 67" fixed gear, just right: low enough to grunt Catie and groceries up minor hills or pull the doublewide against headwinds, fast enough to keep up with modest tailwinds. You don't need a name brand. I forget what I had; it was decent but not a Burley or a Thule; Avocet? It worked fine and by the time you get to the point of experiencing the longevity of an expensive brand your child has long outgrown it. I did later get a used Burley trail-a-bike but by the time my daughter was old enough to ride it she was embarrassed to be seen on it and demanded her own bike. On Sat, Sep 2, 2023 at 7:05 PM Eliot Balogh <eliotbal...@gmail.com> wrote: > A trailer is the safest option. If you go that route I would consider a > Thule or older Chariot (these can be had very inexpensively). They have > weight adjustable suspension and you can use an infant sling. The general > age recommendation is to wait until 12-18 months but we certainly started > closer to 6 months (My wife and I are both nurse practitioners and got the > Ok from his pediatrician). It will very from child to child but once they > are demonstrating strong head and neck control they should be ok in an > infant sling. > > I personally prefer a Thule Maxi seat on a rack behind me. It’s just nice > not having to deal with the weight and logistics of a trailer. We only just > started doing that on our Cargo E bike now that he’s 16 months and gets to > ride to daycare. > > Eliot > > On Sat, Sep 2, 2023 at 5:54 PM Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! < > jonasandle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Kushan, >> >> Oh, I so know that excitement you feel about introducing your baby to >> biking. It’s wonderful that you want to share it and it will be such a >> bonding experience between the both of you as he grows up. >> >> Is the plan to put him in a bike seat on your bike? Or in a cargo bike? >> In a car seat inside a cargo bike? I think the last option is the only one >> I could safely recommend, and maybe not even that. I am a nurse, and I >> won’t ever forget the part of our pediatrics training that talked about the >> microtears that can be caused even by bouncing a baby too hard. You can >> damage their little eyes, their brains, and their neck muscles, which >> really aren’t meant to support much until after one year of age. Now, if a >> pediatrician happens to be on here and would like to offer advice, I’d love >> to hear it, but from what I can remember in peds training, it wouldn’t be >> safe to take baby on a bike seat until next year. >> >> I’m sorry! >> Leah >> >> On Friday, September 1, 2023 at 10:58:35 PM UTC-4 Kushan wrote: >> >>> Looking for wisdom and advice from the Riv community on riding bikes >>> with babies on them. At what age did you start? What seats, trailers, etc >>> did you use? Where did you ride? >>> >>> My little one just turned 6 months old and I am itching to introduce him >>> to bike rides. He can sit on his own and does pretty well in carriers (both >>> facing in and out). He loves being outside and I would love to do a ride >>> with him on a car-free bike paths or (non-technical) dirt trails. 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