Child Bike Seat Roundup! We take an in-depth look at 6 different seat options including a homemade option (Mac Ride, Shotgun, Do Little and more). These are the best seats for off road mountain biking. Never has there been a better time to be a Bike Mom or Bike Dad with all these awesome products...
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Kids Ride Shotgun Offroad Child Seat Review
The Shotgun seat positions your child safe between your arms and the conversations and teaching moments you will experience with your child are priceless. We loved the weight distribution of the Shotgun seat on the bike and really allowed for uninhibited steering while on the trails. The foot straps and foot pegs held my kids...
Shotgun Kids MTB Seat
Raising a future mountain biker? If so, you need to check out the new shotgun kids MTB seat (riding shotgun – get it?) The shotgun seat is a front mounted child seat for kids 2 - 5 years, designed for the next generation of mountain bikers. The seat has been on sale in Australia and...
Mac-Ride Kids Bike Seat Review
The Mac-Ride is our favorite off-road child seat currently in the market today. It allows you to mount it to both carbon and metal frames and it's dropper post compatible. As mountain bikers we would struggle to give up these luxuries. The mounting of the Mac-Ride is very simple and you can take it on...
Getting Kids Motivated to Ride Bikes
Every Winter I wonder if my kids will be as “stoked” to ride come Spring as they were the previous Fall. We are lucky enough to be able to ride all year round but the relentless rain and damp/cold days in the Pacific Northwest definitely cramp the desire to get on the bike. My kids...
First Look: Tyke Toter
We were stoked to see this in the mailbox yesterday! I first found out about the Tyke Toter while researching a similar style of seat that was having production delays. We outlined these new front mounted style of seats in a previous post but we had not yet tried any of them…until today. The Tyke Toter arrived and...
A Different Kind of Front Mounted Child Bike Seat
We are big fans of front mounted bike seats. They position the child in front of you, allowing them to see ahead and anticipate what's coming ahead. Further, the weight is distributed equally over the bike which offers a very stable ride, even at slow speeds. A limitation of front mounted and defiantly rear mounted...