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General => Tech Forum => Topic started by: colinv on May 18, 2006, 06:47:30 am

Title: Child seat
Post by: colinv on May 18, 2006, 06:47:30 am

Has anyone ever fitted a child seat to a carbon? I know it might be a stupid question but the wife thinks you can.

Title: Re: Child seat
Post by: shovelon on May 18, 2006, 07:27:43 am

How would that work? The swingarm goes up and down. And  I would not  chance breaking the bonded seatpost insert.

Here is an idea, put it on the wife's bike.

I did have a hitchhiker attached to my Beast for a while. The extra weight on the shock was very noticable.

Terry

Title: Re: Child seat
Post by: colinv on May 18, 2006, 07:48:24 am

My thoughts too, but if I did it would have to fit on the seat post but as you said I don't fancy stressing that area anymore than it is already.

Title: Re: Child seat
Post by: orange on May 18, 2006, 09:41:41 am

I regularly carry my 18 month old on a childseat that attaches just to the seatpost on my 857 or my XP-8, however both bikes are aluminium and they seem to take it just fine. The seat bounces around a bit as it obviously doesn't have the struts that connect to the chainstays, but that's how it's designed. Don't know about carbon stresses around seatpost...

Title: Re: Child seat
Post by: Simon on May 18, 2006, 09:45:55 am

Be carefull with the carbon regarding
stressing the seatpost area,
those seat post inserts are known to fail (or come loose),
mine did as has Sprucey's (both failed),
had some new one's made, up drawings in the file's
section.

Simon.