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I'd go for a Surly Disc Trucker with 26" wheels. Small wheels means the center of gravity is lowered, even with kids and baskets.
Added benefit is more space for something like a macride or Kids Ride Shotgun seat because of the tall headtube and short fork AC.
Touring spec makes the frame nice and stiff.Be wary of the wheelbase though.
Pictured is my Intec M1 in dad mode.
It used to have a rear mounted thule seat as well.
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This has served me well for a while now, but it was always a bit of a budget bodge, and I'm thinking of changing things out. Formerly a cheap 29er MTB, it's very slightly too long for the bike locker it lives in, and the high bottom bracket means getting on it is difficult with anything in the basket. I also want to make it two-kid capable, in anticipation of a possible future goblin to join the horde. So I'd need to be able to fit a second child seat on the rear rack, and then ideally still keep a basket on the handlebars or a front rack.
It's now the bike I ride most often, doing commuting journeys and town stuff, before or after the nursery run. So I'd like a dynamo wheelset, and I'm thinking 27.5 or even 26 would make the whole thing a bit easier to handle around town, up steps, through the nursery gate, into its bike locker etc.
Any reason not to go for an On One Inbred or 456? Or are there any new 'ATB' type frames I should be looking at - something like Surly Bridge Club? VO Piolet looks great but too expensive. Bit wary of mad boost and thru axle standards on new MTB-adjacent frames...
Probably cheaper option would be to keep the frame but just build a 27.5 dynamo wheelset to drop the bottom bracket a bit, and get a slightly shorter fork to accommodate, both of which would also slightly shorten the wheelbase. Expect that might make the geometry noticeably weird though