to think man with tiny baby in sling should not be cycling down hills and main roads at high speed?

[anonymousbird]

Just saw man on a bicycle, small baby (no bigger than 3 months - inward facing in a babybjorn) on a major road near us, going at considerable speed....

This just feels wrong to me???? That baby has no protection, right, and this is not the same as having a child in a proper child seat on the back where a child would be wearing a helmet???

AIBU, or just silly to worry?

Sounds incredibly dangerous to me. Is it legal?

Parents do this all the time in Belgium, it's a very common sight. YANBU, it is dangerous in my opinion, and having seen a girl come off her bike just last week (on a cycle path, no other vehicles or bikes involved) and sustain nasty injuries, I would hate to think how a baby would fair in a bicycle accident.

Well, I really did a double take! I thought it was a back pack on his front to start with, then as he whizzed around a corner just in front of me, I saw a baby..... clearly visible in a pink sling.

I think that sounds totally and utterly irresonsible, am slightly in that someone would do this with a tiny baby...

He was going so fast, no helmet himself, pulling in front of a school bus, oh the list goes on!! Complete disregard to the baby's safety, god forbid that they should fall or be hit, I don't see how the baby escapes serious injury.....

Glad it's not just be being over protective!

It drive me nuts too when I see cyclists without helmets on, crazy IMO

Sounds like something my XH would do. Which is one reason among many he is now X. Thank god I didn't have kids with him.

I saw a man cycling at speed down a main road with a screaming toddler tucked under his arm. Was pretty horrifying.

Wow. Just... wow.

Could you ask the police for advice and tell them where he cycles from/to and maybe they could wait for him and have a word in his shell like?

How totally irresponsible.

It's the first time I had seen it, so no idea if this is regular behaviour or a one off, but for sure, if I saw it again, I think I would have to say something/call police or whatever.

Neolara - that is too.

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