Originally Posted by
gsa103
Extremely stupid question, how do you get on a bike with a rear mounted seat?
Step 1: Load child.
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Ride away.
Does it require a step-through frame or something? I'm having trouble seeing how to kick my leg high enough to clear a child without kneeing them in the head.
Step 2 = roundhouse kick the kid in the face
Seriously though, you are right, it's not trivial, you pretty much have to get your foot over the toptube, because the knee-over the saddle option is taken away. So if you don't have a townie or mixte with a low toptube, and if you don't have the flexibility of a gymnast or a porn star, you have to lean the bike over. It certainly helps to have a spouse to hold things (or load the child for you after you straddle the bike), or maybe if you lean the bike away you can have the kid squish against a wall for a few seconds or something.