Bike trailers

I have some experience of cycling with a child in a Chariot Cougar trailer. That one has a "hammock" available, so it can be used with a new-born. Then as they get bigger, you switch them to the standard seat. A head support is available for younger children.

It's a very well worked-out trailer, and an excellent stroller (which was what I used it mostly for), and, over seven years on, I'm still using it as a goods trailer.



But it has a price to match.

Family were very unhappy with me using it with my daughter, so I ended up walking most of the time, using it as a stroller. I then ended up with two daughters, and got a bakfiets cargo bike so I could get around with both of them, which nobody seemed to find as objectionable.

I personally think that on suburban roads with no trucks, they're perfectly fine to use, but you'll probably get the stink-eye from busybodies.

i use a croozer for my lad, similar to tomasrojo's above but a bit cheaper. for the cheaper price it's also bulkier and could fold down better for transporting / storage. that said it has massive storage itself and like tomasrojo's it converts to a jogger or normal stroller also.

it can be used from 3 months up with the baby insert as per the chariot, we got it at 3 or 4 months. we then took that insert out at 10 months. the lad absolutely loves being in the trailer and i find you get load of space from traffic compared to cycling by yourself...i never cycle on footpaths with it.

i had also planned on doing the creche run when i got it but my creche don't have enough storage space so i bring him up on the weeride mounted above the crossbar instead.

Just getting a pixel when I click on that image. (Would like to see it!)

mr spuckler wrote: »

any chance this one works? file looks fine on my computer and works when i click it above, though that may be to do with caching?

Bingo. Charming!

One thing to keep in mind with any long bike or trailer: if you're heading into a "corridor" of any sort (line of cars, for example) have a think of how you'll get out the other side. Your options for getting off the road are quite diminished, and filtering is tricky sometimes. Behaving more like a car, and queueing up more works for me.

And, as with any bike, be really, really careful going up the inside of large vehicles. I mean, really, really, etc.

tomasrojo wrote: »

This looks lie the most detailed work done on passing distances of people on bikes with child trailers and child seats.

https://twitter.com/ianwalker/status/1317521086091767810



All pretty good news, except the last one, and pretty much my experience of using trailers and cargo bikes with children (even, to some extent, my experience of moving non-human cargo).

That's really interesting and good to see some more formal confirmation of what many of us have observed on an individual basis.