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Hey guys,
I'm going to be a dad for the first time and wanted to get a bike trailer. Obviously down to head control but roughly how old do they need to be before you take them out in one? Also can anyone recommend a specific type?
Cheers 🙂
Once they can support their head basicaly 6-12 months
You can take them out in car seat if you put that in the trailer - in that case aged 1 day
Lovely thanks Junkyard. Thought it would give the baby and me a nice break from Mum 😀
Makes sure the seat is secure and still reward facing though
I used those strap thingies you use for securing bikes on racks to secure the seat to the trailer frame.
I then minced just in case
I'm from Brighton. Mincing is on the national curriculum in schools down here 🙂
What Junkyard said, but also i would add that you shouldn't take them offroad till they are a bit older. And go easy on potholes, up kerbs (if you have to) and on speedbumps etc 😉
My two love it- i didn't take either of them out till they were at least 18 months old though. And offroad for the first time when they were about 2.
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It's great riding along listening to the giggling coming from behind 😀
yes sorry should have said that is on smooth off road cycle routes as well
I'm from Brighton. Mincing is on the national curriculum in schools down here
😀
There was a baby sling seat available when I was looking (many moons ago) I thinknit was made by a company called weber
It fits a lot of trailers and takes babies from birth.
That's a brilliant picture!
Are the eBay cheapy ones any good?
That's a brilliant picture!
Thanks 😀
Mines a Phillips Shetland one, i bought it from a mate for £30 after his son got his own bike.
Iv'e seen some pretty good ones in Go Outdoors for about £119- Decathlon ones are similar, they look pretty much the same as mine. So that means i can recommend them 😉
£119 is about right for a two seater...
Took our nipper out (very very carefully) for the first time when he was about 7 months, he loved it and it sent him to sleep better than anything else we'd tried up to that point, transferring a snoozing infant from trailer to cot soon became a well honed skill.
From about ten months he was more than happy to go for longer, faster road rides and after about a year we started venturing off road. Unintentionally Got him airborne at the FOD at 13 months, he didn't even wake up!
Mind you this is in a Chariot Cougar 1, which has pretty decent head support and suspension, without this we'd probably have waited much longer.