Best way to carry a toddler

Fizzy77 wrote:

Right. I managed to find a WeeHoo turbo on Ebay. He can peddle or just fall asleep. I may have even managed to convince the other half I need a new bike to replace my home botched together thing I use for carry the sprog and family rides.

In my experience this works well – something along the lines of “I need something more stable with better brakes” tends to release the required budget.

One other solution that hasn

One other solution that hasn’t been mentioned is the FollowMe tandem

https://www.followmetandem.co.uk/

There’s a review on this site (TLDR: Mike Stead thought it was awesome)

The benefit of this one is that you can tow them to your offroad excursions on their own bike and then let them tool around on the singletrack.

With our two kids, who are

With our two kids, who are now 10 and nearly 7, we’ve been through a Chariot trailer, Tagalong and most recently a Bullitt cargo bike. All have been good, and have pluses and minuses, but for me the best by a long way is the cargo bike. It’s the priciest option, but by far the most versatile, and is a big part of us being able to live without a car which offsets the cost considerably. Until fairly recently I’ve been able to fit both kids in there, so still comfortably room for one on their own. I can (and on occasion have) fit an adult in the front.

Of the other options, I’d say a trailer probably isn’t going to last too long – our kids were growing out of the one we had by the time they were about 5, so you might be faced with the same problem again in a year or two. I’ve never used a trailgator, but have never liked the look of the angle that the child’s bike ends up at. Ours is a Trek tagalong and will probably see another year or so of use with our youngest, before he’s too big for it. I’ve never felt concerned about either the trailer or tagalong not being noticed when riding in traffic. Most models come supplied with a flag which helps a lot I think, but my perception is that drivers gave me more room when I had something on the back (especially if was obviously a child). I also modified a light bracket to mount a light halfway up the flag pole.

Mark B wrote:

Mark B wrote:

While tagalongs clearly handle a lot better than trailgators, they’re stuck on there. If  your aim is to get them from A to B safely, that is not a problem, but if you are out riding for pleasure, a trailgator gives you the flexibility to let them cycle some of it where it is safe.

I’ve forgotten the name of it, but there’s an alternative to a trailgator that looks like it should be more stable and is much quicker to get their bike on and off. Not cheap though.

 

The Roland Add+bike connects to a custom rack and is easy to connect–just a tapered pin that slots into a brass hole with a spring loaded catch. The rack is very meaty but as OP already has one it won’t be too much of a weight penalty when he’s out riding on his own. Best thing about hauling a tagalong is how it makes a tourer feel like an ultralight race machine when you ditch it

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modern equivalent

modern equivalent