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Best way to carry a toddler

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  • September 10, 2018 at 12:41 pm #28928
    Fizzy77

    My son will soon be turning 4 and he’s getting a liitle big and heavy for the child seat (fits on the rear rack). I converted my old MTB into a kind of DIY hybrid for the purpose of running him to nursery weekend trips.

    WHen my older kids we younger I used a trailgator and thier bike to tow them along. I’ve also thought about a tag-along. I think these will be fine but I worry about visibility in traffic and if he gets tired while out and about. I want to get him riding asap so don’t want him just sitting there.

    I’m really after other people’s experiences of what works and what doesn’t. Tag-alongs, trailers etc.

    I’d love to use a bicycle more and have thought about a cargo trailer so maybe there’s a way to have a bike set up to do all these things…

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  • September 10, 2018 at 7:26 pm #926875
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    Rapha Nadal

    Binbag.

    Binbag.

    September 10, 2018 at 6:39 pm #926873
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    kil0ran

    A proper tagalong from Roland

    A proper tagalong from Roland (add+bike) worked for me and my son. Much better handling than a trail-gator as long as he can hold himself up, I rode with mine up to the age of 9 before it got too unstable (he’s 142cm and powerful enough to give me a shove in the back on it)

    It’s a good way to get him used to being out in traffic but don’t expect drivers to be any less cockwombly just because they see a child – we got run off the road at Christmas deliberately because “we were taking up too much space and you should have let me past”.

    A child. On Boxing Day FFS.

    So, setting that aside, I think it’s the way to go. Realistically he’s not going to be ready to ride solo on the road until he’s 9 so you should get 5 years use out of it.

    I don’t think a trailer offers anything over a tagalong unless you’re doing really long rides. 

    Electric bakfiets is probably the ultimate for longer journeys – one of the local mums has one and it’s highly lustful but sadly we’re beyond that now.

    September 10, 2018 at 6:34 pm #926871
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    TheHungryGhost

    I have used a tagalong, a

    I have used a tagalong, a Weehoo and a trailgator.  I didnt like the trailgator as I couldn’t get the bike to sit straight for any length of time.  The tagalong was fine for my eldest, although he did fall off it a couple of times.  The Weehoo was by far the best, the child can sit and pedal, or just sit or even fall asleep.  There are a couple of panniers for holding waterproofs, lunch etc.  The only downsides are that its big to store, and can be a pain to naivgate through bike gates.  They are a bit pricy, but hold their value quite well.  I got one second hand, and recently sold it on for about the same as I paid for it.

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