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From: jgold@bbncca.ARPA (Jamie Gold)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.kids
Subject: Re: Suggestions wanted on child seat for bike
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 19:35:10 EST
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Don't take this personally, but as an ex-cabdriver, I think
people who use baby seats on the back of bicycles are NUTS!
If you skid out on some sand, or some moron in a parked car opens
a door in your face and dumps you, are you going to be able to
retrieve your son before a car hits him?  If it's a minor tumble,
perhaps, but I've been witness to cyclers knocked unconscious,
fortunately, none of them had babies with them.

There used to be a fellow in Cambridge who used a sort of
rickshaw attached to the back of his bike to cart his kids
around.  It was large enough to be seen by cars and certainly
looked safer than a baby seat to me.

 Jamie (jgold at bbncc6.arpa)
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