Originally Posted by dragonflybikes
elares, how did you put the trailer on with the trail a bike? DO you have any pics of that? With a little one due Feb 2, I will still have to wait but will want to get him out there on the bike rides with his big sis asap.
Thanks
Ours was an inexpensive two-seat trailer from PerformanceBike. It attached to the left chainstay of the trail-a-bike. So we had the triple, single-seat-trail-a-bike, then trailer. An articulated beast. Attached is the best pic I could find of this setup.
This configuration rode well. Of course I wasn't doing any 50MPH mountain descending. Our triple has a drum drag brake that helps keep the speed down. The kids get plenty of thrill from 18-20 mph so there is no value in going faster, only greater risk. I've not experienced any shimmy in either setup and hope never to experience it. That is what motivates me to keep the speed down.
Like I tell the kids, if we crash, mom is gonna be very mad at me.
The downside to riding with all four is that it takes at least a half an hour at ride check-in to get waivers filled out and numbers pinned and potty time handled. Not much of a downside at all really. And the kids are treated like stars when we are out on these rides.