Originally Posted by
Ktea
This bike (a Trek FX 7.2)
gets my son to daycare and me to work, 5 days a week. I started out with an i-Bert safety seat (which mounts on the front) and a rear rack and panniers, but my knees kept hitting the seat and it made it hard to stop at stoplights (my bike doesn't have enough room for me to hop off the saddle with that seat). So I switched to the Topeak seat with front rack. Makes the bike feel more cumbersome but feels safer. I think my son preferred the front seat- the view from this one is pretty boring.
I'd always wondered about those iBerts. The Topeaks seemed boring but a safer model. In the end I decided I liked doing the trailer thing instead (but them I'm lucky enough to be able to leave the trailer at the daycare when I do it (not as often as I should).
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Bikes: 1996 Eddy Merckx Titanium EX, 1989/90 Colnago Super(issimo?) Piu(?), 1990 Concorde Aquila(hit by car while riding), others in build queue "when I get the time"