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Something different for the wife (to carry baby seat)

  • 25-06-2013 3:24pm
    #1
    WithCheesePlease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭


    My wife already has a nice road bike and a hybrid, but we've just had a baby and I'm looking to get her a new run-around - something pretty lightweight (not some big clunky steel frame) that could comfortably carry a baby seat and with a dropped crossbar to easily get on and off without dropping bike with baby. Simple gears and components would be a bonus.

    I'm looking for something kinda funky / fun, bordering on "hipster" fixie. I'm thinking something along the lines of the Dawes chick line, but can anyone else can mention any others worth looking at??


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  • #2
    Vélo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Vélo


    Here you go

    It will take a rack and mudguards but it's steel!


  • #3
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I bought the Kona Roundabout for my girlfriend from Evans. It turned out to be rather road bike more than anything else and the frame is quite wobbly with a child seat on it.

    Get something sturdier, ladies MTB or a touring bike.


  • #4
    WithCheesePlease
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭WithCheesePlease


    That's actually not a bad looking bike. Far nicer than the 2013 model.


  • #5
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,738 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    What about something like a Surly Cross or an On-One Pompino, steel single speed frames, built tanks.


  • #6
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,220 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    stetyrrell wrote: »
    What about something like a Surly Cross or an On-One Pompino, steel single speed frames, built tanks.

    Sounds perfect!
    WithCheesePlease wrote: »
    I'm looking to get her a new run-around - something pretty lightweight (not some big clunky steel frame) that could comfortably carry a baby seat and with a dropped crossbar to easily get on and off without dropping bike with baby


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  • #7
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,738 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Lumen wrote: »
    Sounds perfect!

    Didn't read the OP sorry.

    Pompino isn't extremely heavy and has a sloped top tube like a MTB. Won't be as light as an aluminium frame though.


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