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.
