Families in NZ or Australia Who Enjoy Biking Should Check Out This New Child Bike Seat
April 14th, 2009 by Joyce Russell, under Travel and Leisure. No Comments
One of the most enjoyable things about living in Australia is the fact that going for bike rides as a family is such a great way to spend your free time. My husband and I have a 2 year old girl who enjoys going for bike rides with us but is too young to ride her own bike, so we were looking for a good child bike seat.
As our 6 and 10 years olds have their own bikes we only needed a child bike seat for youngest, but finding a suitable one was a problem. The only models we could find we rear mounted so we couldn’t see him properly and he got fed up looking at my husband’s back for the whole journey.
I had been asking family and friends if they knew anywhere that sold a child bike seat that wasn’t rear mounted but no one had any ideas. One night I was surfing the net and I found ibert.co.nz a site which sells a child bike seat that I knew would be perfect for us.
The SafeTSeat is designed to be mounted to the front of the adult’s bike, behind the handle bars, with the child’s legs on either side of them. To protect the child’s legs when they are in the child bike seat the leg sections of the seat are made from moulded plastic which is tough and resilient.
Unlike many of the child bike seats that I have come across the SafeTSeat is easy to mount and remove so the adult rider can easily switch from carrying a child to riding alone. Previous to this my husband found it too much of a hassle to remove and re-mount our previous child’s seat so he left it on which he wasn’t too pleased about.
When I first saw the design of the child bike seat I was initially concerned that using it would shift the centre of gravity for the rider and make balancing quite difficult. I shouldn’t have worried as it doesn’t make any difference to the balance of the rider.
In addition to the child bike seat being practical and functional it also gives our son the chance to see everything that we do – no more staring at his dad’s back. We can all chat together and enjoy the scenery as a family and our son loves his new seat.
The SafeTSeat might look unusual but it is now our preferred child bike seat as it is so much fun for our daughter to use and we feel that is strong, safe and exciting.
