Is A Bicycle Seat For A Child Better Than A Bike Trailer?
When I thought of a child seat on a bicycle, I thought I was waxing nostalgic for the simple times of old. Surely, in our day of turbocharged safety hysteria there couldn’t be such an item available anymore! But once again I’ve been proven wrong (It’s hard to admit). The child’s bicycle seat and baby child bike seat world is still alive. Basically you’ve got the rear mounted and the front mounted. There is no mid-ship mounted bicycle seat for a child because that’s where you’ll be sitting as the esteemed pilot of the bike. I’ve no trouble envisioning the rear mounted child bike seat. Immediately I think of Toto, the Cairn Terrier jumping from the Wicked Witch of the West’s bicycle basket. A few upgrades later, and you’ve got the rear mounted baby bike seat. The front mounted seat was harder for me to picture. I kept thinking about a basket hanging in front of the handlebars. That seemed like a good place for a child if you didn’t like them very much. They could absorb the impact of a v
