Most ridiculous thing I've EVER seen

[sabian92]

Evening...

I'm not one to be critical of what other people do on the roads, but this takes the cake. Bear with me....

I went to Center Parcs in Sherwood Forest over the weekend (Near Nottingham) and if you've been, you'll know a lot of people ride bikes, and if they have little kids, they're hanging off the back in a child's seat. We (me and my girlfriend) were walking around on Sunday, when I saw something I could hardly believe - a woman had her little girl in a child seat, which was slung OVER the top tube on the bike, balancing her between her legs and with 1 arm around her chest!

Can you beat that? I bloody well can't... and I don't think I ever will!

 

[ramses]

Well, you won't believe what you see if you go to Amsterdam.

Saw a woman cycling down the road with a large plastic dog bed balanced on her handle bars, which she could barely hold due to the width of the dog bed. Totally insane! I just hope she didn't need to turn a corner.

Another cyclist in Amsterdam had a large dog in some contraption attached to the front of the bike, much like a massive basket, and the dog looked very much like a lab. Mad, can you imagine the weight!

You get to see some interesting cycling over there, just things you wouldn't see here, you'd get nicked!

 

[youngoldbloke]

It was probably just one of these forward bike seat . There are lots of different versions - try a google search.
... and .... how about - again lots of different versions available - head tube mounted too.
Try googling 'bike dog basket'.

 

[darth vadar]

Evening...

I'm not one to be critical of what other people do on the roads, but this takes the cake. Bear with me....

I went to Center Parcs in Sherwood Forest over the weekend (Near Nottingham) and if you've been, you'll know a lot of people ride bikes, and if they have little kids, they're hanging off the back in a child's seat. We (me and my girlfriend) were walking around on Sunday, when I saw something I could hardly believe - a woman had her little girl in a child seat, which was slung OVER the top tube on the bike, balancing her between her legs and with 1 arm around her chest!

Can you beat that? I bloody well can't... and I don't think I ever will!

If I was at Center Parcs with my girlfriend I think the last thing I would be bothered about was worrying about

a woman and what she was doing with her baby

 

[Grizzly]

What about this then?

 

[ColinJ]

It was probably just one of these forward bike seat . There are lots of different versions - try a google search.

Someone I know used to ride around with his twin toddlers on his bike - one on the back, one on a forward bike seat. I always wondered how he got on and off the bike without kicking them or dropping the bike!

 

[MarkF]

Would never have thought that a Center Parc client could be such an out and out rebel.

Amsterdam, ha! Was there last month, saw plenty of parent/kid/cycle stuff (normal life stuff) that would have had the parents castigated in the press in the UK. Mind you, the kids were having a whale of a time................

 

[raindog]

Sounds like the kind of thing people did all the time before Elf and Safety arrived on the scene.

 

[Muddy Ground]

How about the guy in Brixton who had two dogs hanging from the ends of his handlebars in carrier bags? At least he'd double bagged them. I've also seen children balanced on the top tube sitting on a small piece of wood that's been tied on. All a bit daft, but not as daft as the motorcyclists who ride around in t-shirts and shorts.

As for kids and bikes - bring the daftness on I say, let them explore and break stuff. Anywhere other than here or America such events would be called life. We're so risk adverse that we cry out when we see something that would have been regarded as normal 20 years ago, or is indeed acceptable when you cross over to the continent. How many people here can remember being thrown out the front door as kids at 9am and being told not to return until lunch time? Never really hurt any of us did it?

At least the environment you describe was a safe one.

www.muddyground.blogspot.com

 

[2Loose]

Back in the 70's my mum used to carry me around on a saddle on the cross bar (like the one youngoldbloke links to) while my younger brother sat in an armchair type contraption behind her. It was common back then, cars were a lot less prevalent and I can't remember any accidents...

 

[Globalti]

I remember having to ride on the seat on the back of my Mum's bike - I hated it because it felt so unsafe.

 

[tyred]

My Dad remembers the day he started school. My Gran took him and his twin brother on an old loop framed Raleigh, one sitting in the basket on the handlebars, one sitting on the rear carrier. Normal behaviour before the modern obsession with health and safety.

 

[lukesdad]

Evening...

I'm not one to be critical of what other people do on the roads, but this takes the cake. Bear with me....

I went to Center Parcs in Sherwood Forest over the weekend (Near Nottingham) and if you've been, you'll know a lot of people ride bikes, and if they have little kids, they're hanging off the back in a child's seat. We (me and my girlfriend) were walking around on Sunday, when I saw something I could hardly believe - a woman had her little girl in a child seat, which was slung OVER the top tube on the bike, balancing her between her legs and with 1 arm around her chest!

Can you beat that? I bloody well can't... and I don't think I ever will!

Thats nothing my youngest used to love flying about perched on my mtb s bars bit like this really

 

[ianrauk]

hahaha top photo Mark....

 

[youngoldbloke]

Sounds like the kind of thing people did all the time before Elf and Safety arrived on the scene.

These things are available and in use now - front child seats, dog baskets etc, and as far as I know, are perfectly legal. Children on handlebars or dogs in carrrier bags - I think not!