Child seats

Giro are the only company that do infant helmets with MIPS

Are people mostly running flat pedals with child seats?

You might look a tad silly clipped in

Haha, was wondering more from a maximising safety perspective.

Surely safer to be unclipped. Although, never really thought about it.

Those with Thule ST mounted seats: what tension did you tighten the clamp to?

I have dutifully followed the guide and tightened mine to 8nm and I seem to a crimped the ST. It is an old steel frame that from the weight I had assumed was made from scaffolding tubes, but the clamp has definitely misshapen the tubing.

Aargh.

Anyone got any experience installing a Yepp next mini on a medium 29er, am I likely to be able to pedal?

Seems quite hit and miss whether people’s knees hit the seat or not.. I’d really prefer a front mounted seat to a rear... but not much good if the bike is unrideable

I used a Yepp on an old Rockhopper with an almost straight top tube. My knees grazed the back of the seat when I was pedalling, but it was bearable.

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Cheers that’s helpful, any rough idea on ETT length? And are you relatively long of leg?

ETT on that bike is ~61cm. I have a long torso and short legs.

Thanks, about the same as my el mariachi, 60cm on a medium I think. I’m hoping it’ll work with swept back bars even if I have to scoot the saddle back a bit. One last question, is your steerer standard 1 1/8”?

I’ve seen a couple of people say the mount the comes with the seat doesn’t fit a standard fork steerer as the maximum tube diameter it accommodates is 28mm, which would seem crazy considering 28.6 is almost completely standard.

It’s a 1 1/8” threaded steerer that I’m running threadless with an adapter / extender (it make sense in the link below). I ran the quill stem clamp on the threadless adapter with no issues. Project thread here: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/306060/

Ace, thanks. Bike looks great!

Weeride available to anyone who wants to come pick it up from New cross.

Yours for a couple of cans of beer.

Has all fittings, a bit cobwebby but plenty of life left.

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So here we are again. Yepp seat post mount seems enormous, ride along seems like more of the mount comes off with the seat, but yepp seems cooler...

Or do I just get a rear rack and get a rack mounting yepp?

If so, recommendations on a rear rack that's not too massive??

Thanks

I just got a Yepp Maxi, XL adapter and rear rack second hand. The rack is some cheap Azur one and it’s pretty average, but works for now. The Yepp XL adapter is like this one. Apparently you can run panniers behind the seat, but I never will. It’s pretty massive.

If I was buying new, I’d either get a Yepp rack (and do away with the adapter all together) or the smaller Yepp adapter. I will probably never run rear panniers (especially with the Clydesdale fork), so having a pannier rack seems pointless to me.

Yepp rack

Smaller Yepp adapter.

What I do like about the rack mounted seat is I can easily take off the seat and just have a rear rack.

You can see the length of the Yepp adapter vs the length of the Azur rack here.

To answer your question, any rack that can hold 25kg+ would be fine. I looked at the Surly ones, but they seem overkill. As I said, if I replace the rear rack, it will be with the Yepp one that doesn’t require an adapter.

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@NurseHolliday has detailed yepp review

Thanks for all the info. I saw those yepp racks and wondered if they would be a good solution, but it's not very well explained anywhere that they are an alternative to using any other rack plus a yepp adaptor. I also haven't been able to find a picture of a yepp rack mounted on a bike anywhere!

Anyway. Thanks for your help, great info!

Awesome thanks mate. how do I find that? (I tried searching but didn't see it).

No worries. Until I actually had the racks etc in my hand it made more sense.

If you want any more photos, let me know.

The rear rack I’m using is one of these. It’s a bit shit to clamp the Yepp adapter on due to where the struts are and the base of the rack, and it’s only rated to 25kg, so I should probably upgrade it.

I think @amey was just inviting me to come dump some thoughts about the Yepp.

In terms of child comfort, the rack mounted is definitely better as the seat is much further back. However the rack is fucking heavy and like @Verbs_&_Nouns says, the whole setup so you can use panniers and seat is a faff. I thought that if I was going to have a rear rack for the seat then I might as well make the weight more useful and fit the adapter to use panniers but it's so heavy already, I ditched the idea.

In terms of fitting the rack, for me on my small Surly Troll, the top arms weren't long enough so I had to join the long and short ones together. I don't understand how they would work on a bigger frame considering mine is tiny.

The biggest negative of the whole thing is that I just don't think it's a very good seat. Ezekiel always hangs forwards when he falls asleep, the seat doesn't lean back enough, I could rig it at an angle by leaning the rack back but then it'll look like I can't fit a rack level (slave to fashion). It's also not comfy or plush, it's very utilitarian. Fine if you're doing short trips, but if you're going to have your kid sitting on the back of the bike for a long trip, you could at least do them the favour of getting something a little nicer.

I have the same (currently trying to sell rack and seat but in Sweden) . Kind of agree but the plus side is how quick it is to unlock the seat to the rack and vice versa. I could take off the seat and leave it at nursery and ride off then pop it back on at pick up in a jiffy.

I had a nightmare fitting the rack to my Marin pine mountain 27.5+. Got some new struts from yepp but they didn’t work so eventually got some from sjs and it worked fine.

The seat tube mount is beefy but the stiffness is something you want when your child gets bigger. I also had a Bobike adapter and my kid was bouncing all over the place.

What I like about the Yepp over a Bobike One is that it's made out of a softer material. My kids regularly bounce their head against the backrest over bumps (...even if I indicate them)

This is true, it's very quick to remove, but I think no quicker than the seat tube mounted version. At least if you do remove it, you're left with a usable rack rather than just a big clunky thing on your seat tube.

Yeah, it’s tough. When our son falls asleep in his car seat his head flops forward even though it’s a “reclining” one. I know the Hamax seats recline, but I don’t know how that would affect riding having weight even further back.

I’m looking forward to using the Yepp seat for a longer ride. We’ve only gone out for 5-10 minutes so far.