Topeak BabySeat Child Bike Seat with Aluminum Rack Standard Version
July 26, 2009 by Bicycle Seats
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Topeak BabySeat Child Bike Seat with Aluminum Rack Disc Mount Version
July 22, 2009 by Bicycle Seats
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Topeak BabySeat Child Bike Seat with Aluminum Rack (Disc Mount Version) Sale Price: $144.99 Average Rating:   |
DescriptionEnjoy the optimal stopping power of your disc brake system, and keep your infant secure and comfortable with the Topeak Baby Bike Seat. The only child bike seat on the market offering a full suspension system to absorb road shock and ensure a smooth ride for your child, the Topeak Baby Seat includes a Disc Mount Aluminum Rear Bike Rack so that the bike seat can be mounted easily on bikes with popular disc mounted brake systems... Features
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Topeak BabySeat Child Bike Seat with Aluminum Rack Disc Mount Version
February 27, 2009 by Bicycle Seats
Filed under Child Seats
Topeak BabySeat Child Bike Seat with Aluminum Rack Disc Mount Version
A baby seat with suspension. Adjustable foot rests with safety straps. Four point harness. Includes aluminum rack with quick mount system. 40 lbs capacity. This one is compatible with disc brakes.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Everything I was hoping for in a child seat.
My wife and I wanted a child seat that would work on my mountain bike with disc brakes. This rack/seat combination has worked perfectly! The variety of extension brackets included make this rack simple to install on any frame with the pre-drilled mounting holes. All you need is an allen wrench, a screwdriver and a pair of pliers or small crescent wrench. It will also work on a standard (i.e. caliper brake) frame, so why not buy this one in case you decide to go with a disc brake bike in the future? It's big enough for our "oversized" toddler to ride in comfort as well. He loves it, we love it, and we would absolutely recommend it to anyone who's looking for a good child bike seat. It's difficult to find (we came to Amazon after being told we'd have to special order it at REI and pay $45 more). Great product.
5 Stars Very good carrier
I bought this on the recommendation from my local bike shop. They said it was the only one they would sell because the back wouldn't fold over if you did flip over.
I installed it myself and it was much easier than I thought. No problems.
I would recommend this to anyone.
5 Stars Very happy
Even though my bike doesn't have a disc breaks I got this model to future proof my investment. It took me about 2 hours to install the seat, bike stand and rearview mirror (which I have purchased separately). The supplied instructions are pretty good and all the supplied parts fit together very well. I have used this seat couple of times so far with very good experience for both, the rider and the passenger 
. It is easy to put the baby in and out of it. The straps work very well to hold him in the seat. We have not used the foot straps since it seemed uncomfortable to prevent any movement and the way the seat is positioned on the bike and the shape of the foot rests it is hard to put his feet into the wheel. The seat seems to protect the passenger very well and we had a blast with it. I especially like that having him right behind me allows us to talk and share the experience.
Topeak BabySeat Child Bike Seat with Aluminum Rack Standard Version
February 27, 2009 by Bicycle Seats
Filed under Child Seats
Topeak BabySeat Child Bike Seat with Aluminum Rack Standard Version
A baby seat with suspension. Adjustable foot rests with safety straps. Four point harness. Includes aluminum rack with quick mount system. 40 lbs capacity. This rack is for standard bike but a disc brake compatible rack is also available.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Great seat and sturdy. My son loves it.
This is a great seat and well made. It wasn't that difficult to install.
My 11mon old son loves this one. He smiles every time when I pull out this bike. The enjoyment is well worth the $100 spent on this item. I'm very pleased.
5 Stars Great bike seat
Our daughter is three and a half years old and we have used this bike for over two years -- ever since she was safe riding in it. She loves it. We have taken her on long bike trips and on short rides to the neighborhood playground, on flat asphalt roads and on bumpy gravel rides. The seat does not interfere with riding -- there are even straps to secure her feet. It is exceptionally sturdy and sits very firmly on the back of the bike. The rack was a bit tricky to attach, but once in place it has stayed firm and secure all this time with no adjustments required -- we never once had to worry about it getting loose or wobbly. The rack-seat configuration is convenient because it allowed us to buy extra Topeak racks (which are inexpensive) and move the seat from one bike to another with no effort. We even got an extra rack for our in-laws when our daughter stayed with them -- she had a great time riding with them in her seat. And, once you no longer need the seat, you still have a great, solid rack on your bike to use. I have noticed that a lot of parents in our neighborhood ride with this seat. After heavy use, the seat is still in great condition -- a little bit of lining got loose, but that was fixed in no time with a little glue. So, very happy with the product, no complaints, but a few words of caution -- you must buy a kickstand for your bike, and you must always hold on to the bike when your child is in the seat.
5 Stars Topeak Babyseat
Very nice product. The only issue i have had is the velcro for the seat cushion does not stick to the plastic.
5 Stars Very easy to use
My bike is stored in my apartment so I purchased the rack with the sliding lock and the seat comes on and off very easily. The seat I purchased was with the standard rack but came with the sliding lock version. Handy if you have 2 bikes (like me) since the rack is muck cheaper than the seat. The seat in it self is sturdy and seems very comfortable. The sliding lock, how ever easy to use, is also very secure.
4 Stars Excellent Bike Seat
My wife got a new bike (REI Women's Novara Hybrid) and wanted to haul the 2 year old around so we decided on a bike baby seat.
We first tried the Bell classic. Aside from looking kind of cheap (ok, so it was very inexpensive) we had the problem that it would not fit on the bike. She has one of those step through bikes with a curved center tube. This has proved problematic for fitting accessories. The main problem is that the built in mounting points are level with back brakes. So anything you mount has to go over the back brakes and down.
Fortunately the Topeak was able to accommodate this with all the extra parts that came with the rack. There are three different lengths of straight mounting rails as well as the curved rails that attach to the rack. To get the rack mounted I first attached the curved rails to the rack, then the long rails to the curved rails. This brought it up above the brakes then I used the medium rails to come down and attach to the mounting points. It was like an erector set project. The bottom supports mounted easily enough without any problem other than having to pull the bottom "legs" apart some and mount them under tension. Be careful or you can scratch the paint on the bike. It took some doing and about an hour but the rack is well mounted.
Once the rack is mounted getting the seat on and off is easy enough. On the front of the seat at the bottom in the area between the legs is a circular plastic lip. This attaches to a rail on rack close to the bike seat. This is what holds it on at one end. There is a bracket underneath the seat that goes into a slot towards the rear of the rack. This is the second point of support. The bracket goes into the slot and then you have a yellow block shaped piece of plastic that slides into the bracket and clicks in via a spring loaded red cylinder that pops up through the deck of the rack and prevents the block from being able to slide forward or back. The seat is held by the fact that the bracket from the seat is in between two brackets on the seat and the block slides into all three locking the seat bracket into place. Its very secure though it does make jiggly noises while riding.
Other latching mechanism exist on the seat. There is a foam covered bar that attaches to the seat. It is hinged on one end and takes noticeable effort to undo. The kid is not going to do it. Its generally easier to slide the kid in than under the bar. The main purpose of the bar is to give the kid something to hang onto.
There is a 3 point harness "Y" harness as well. The groin strap attaches to the shoulder straps via a unique slide fitting. It's a spring loaded slide lock that you have to pull back on and then pull the plastic ring from the groin strap out of. It's actually somewhat difficult to do, no way the kids going to do it.
Other features include decent foam padding, a decent shaped plastic seat. Two damper springs on the rear to help take the bite of a shock and adjustable footwells with straps for the younger ones. For added bonus if you buy a separate rack and install it on another bike you can move the seat from bike to bike.
Overall it's a good seat, it's the only one we could find that would fit the type of bike my wife got. Installation was complicated by the bike type, it would have been much easier on a standard mountain bike. Use might seem complicated at first but once you understand it and practice it becomes easy.
Kettler Flipper Child Bicycle Seat
February 6, 2009 by Bicycle Seats
Filed under Baby Seats, Child Seats, Hers, His, Kids, and Baby Seats
Kettler Flipper Child Bicycle Seat
The Kettler Flipper Bicycle Seat features a reclining backrest and adjustable headrest to provide your child with a comfortable ride. Kettler Childrens Bicycle Seats are unique in how they mount onto bicycles. They do not require a luggage rack on the bicycle rather they are mounted using a patented natural suspension system bracket which offers the child a more comfortable ride. They come with 7-position adjustable foot rests with a safety strap for added comfort and safety and can accommodate a child up to 50 lbs.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Didn't Fit
Unfortunately this looked like a great seat when we received it. It has the adjustable back and foot rests, as well as the must needed storage that other seats do not offer. My husband and I liked the idea that it did not require a bike rack in order to mount it to your bike. Before we purchased the seat we checked the manufacturer's website and it indicated that this seat should fit my husband's Trek bike. However, when we tried to mount it, the adapter fit on the frame but because of the angle of his frame it did not fall right and we could not attach the seat to it 
( Had to return the product, but amazon.com makes returns easy and painless. We wound up getting a seat with a bike rack mount.
2 Stars Good luck getting this to fit your bike correctly
We bought this to go on my wife's Trek 800. We have a total of 4 bikes, but that is the only one we were sure it would fit (there were 2 bikes that were questionable) based on Kettler's site of Bikes that work and Bikes that won't. You should only believe the bikes that don't pictures.
If you expect this to fit your bike, the following has to be true. 1. seat post tube has to be round and between 28mm-44mm and have 6 inches of free space up and down. 2. bike has to have a "traditional" rear triangle design that is not too wide (never measured that, but the gist is that the seat rails must go by the frame, so if it's too wide, you can't slide the seat in.) 3. shifter cable has to either run straight up and down the middle of the seat tube or not be on the seat tube at all. 4. no side pull brakes, only V-style (side pull brakes block the seat rails). 5. this is the kicker. If you get all of the above right, Kettler has a dot on the side of the seat showing the center of mass. This dot can not be more than 10 cm (4 inches) behind the rear wheel axle. What this means is that the distance between the adaptor mount (the thing the rails slide into) and the axle must be at least 16" (the distance from the adaptor center to the dot when the rails are in the adaptor is 20"). 6. And the real kicker is you can get all that right, but when you pedal you can be hitting your child's feet with your heel on the way up. The seat has a decent range on the rails, but you can't move it back beyond the 10 cm, so you move it forward and hit feet or move it back and go beyond the limit.
I tried this on several bikes at a store and then gave up. The seat itself was nice or I'd have given it 1 star. The instructions are pictures, which would be fine if they were better at it. http://www.kettlerusa.com/Flipper.pdf A few words would help, even if they were in German. The support people were not as helpful as I thought they should be. It took a phone call and many emails to get to the point where they could definitively tell me why there is a 10 cm limit. (And their reason, that it is a structural issue (quote from Germany - "If the center of the red dot is more than 10 cm from the middle of the wheel away - the leverage effect of the seat and the fitting of the seat would be to high. The structure of the seat could get damaged --> and so the child could get hurt too.") is different from the reason given for the CoPilot
( http://www.bikedock.com/custom/pdf/08/CoPilot/Co-Pilot_Taxi_manual.pdf page 3, which is that it is a balance/braking issue. I know they mount differently, so take that for whatever you think it's worth. The instructions (the part at the beginning that is words) say "