Judging from the feedback I got from 5 Wild Ways to Bike with Kids, quite a few Droolicious readers are looking for ways to ride safely with kids. Go pedal power!
If you already have a bike, trailercycles are a popular way to bring kids along. You have the comfort of a familiar bike, the control of the steering and pace, and the kid can pedal to his-or-her heart's content. Normally, trailercycles mean a 1:1 adult-kid ratio, but the Adams Trail-a-Bike Original Tandem ($420) ups it to 1:2. I've seen some creative parents in a "bike train" — an adult bike with an attached trailercycle that's also pulling a trailer — so multi-kid biking is in demand. The Trail-a-Bike Original Tandem can haul up to 125 pounds of 4 to 6 year olds and attaches to the seat posts of most 26-inch and 700c bikes.
About Heather Kuldell
Heather Kuldell thinks a day without stepping on her son's tiny, metal cars can be called successful. In addition to protecting sensitive insteps, she blogs, bikes, cooks and attempts to garden. By trade, she has worked for alternative newspapers, magazines and co-edited three collections of journalism called
Best AltWeekly Writing and Design.
