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How NOT to carry a child on your bike

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Cycling with kids bicycle seat safety

We're talking regular bikes, not the snazzy, super cool ones specially developed for carrying our precious cargo (...the ones I'm highly jealous of).  Just a bike with a child seat added. image credit The other day I saw a big 7-8 year old boy, climb onto the back of his mum's bike into a traditional toddler rear seat. I kid you not! My jaw dropped! He then … [Read more...] about How NOT to carry a child on your bike

Filed Under: Family Life Tagged With: cycle seat, cycling, debate, Safety, toddler seat

Is this the coolest mama bike? … the Sparta Ion m-gear

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Sparta Ion m gear mama bike

So you ask: what is a mama bike? A mamma bike or mama bike, mama fiets is a term I recently discovered in the Netherlands and it refers to a bicycle designed for moms (and dads) to transport children and shopping.  It's a bike that has a long frame and can accommodate a child seat in front, between the cyclists and the steering wheel and probably one on the back, above … [Read more...] about Is this the coolest mama bike? … the Sparta Ion m-gear

Filed Under: Technology for Families Tagged With: bicycle, bike, cycle to school, cycling, electric bike, Review, school pedal, Technology, Time Tested Review

We did it!!! Cycling to school in Oxford

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cycle to school

We live in the beautiful Oxford. Oxford is supposedly a cycling city, yet there have been a number of cycling deaths in city in the past years. I hasten to add, not cyclists' faults from what I can gather from the news and folklore. The cycling network is haphazardous: On the road, then on the pavement, then it just stops. Or even worse the road narrows, as a traffic … [Read more...] about We did it!!! Cycling to school in Oxford

Filed Under: Family Life Tagged With: #cycletoschool, cycling, Learning, moments, Natural Childhood, Out and about, Oxford, Parenting, parenting dilemma, Safety

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