Originally Posted by
anichka
Another female bike commuter here. We are a car-lite family, and my husband uses our car to get to work.
I take my son to preschool most weekdays on my bike. We're trying to work out a good solution for cycling in the winter rain. This is our first winter in the PNW and while we've been sucking it up for a while, the chill is getting to both of us (maybe more my conscience about having a toddler out on the bike in the rain?). I am getting a new bike soon (woo hoo!) and want to set up something like this for him to make the ride a bit more comfortable for him:
http://youaintgotjack.blogspot.com/p...rotection.html
That looks cool. You should be able to work something up from a stroller rain cover, the frame from a stroller canopy - google those terms and you'll see lots of options - and some sturdy zip ties. We used to push our daughter around in a stroller with a rain cover, this was in London during the winter, she was perfectly toasty and dry,