Adult Tricycle with child seats - anyone got one, thoughts please...and where to get them!

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Looking at a Pashley on ebay, which has a basket - but I really would love one with child seats on the back. Am I turning into a lentil weaver and are they any use?

It looks like it might be hard work to pedal but great fun!

I think people would stare at you aghast

Don't jest mama...there's one with an ice cream box as well that I looked at with wistful eyes

there's a Pashley Picador that drops two preschoolers at our nursery - I covet it. Have seen a couple of others round Ox too.

I don't think they make them any more though - maybe try a bakfiets instead?

I love the idea, would love one myself. Would be perfect where I live-country roads.

Ooh the Bakfiets are gorgeous!
I've rung Pashley and they no longer make the child seats but there are quite a few in finished listings on ebay.

I'm wondering about adapting one anyway. It can't be that hard surely.

hmm.

Or the Nihola which is cheaper than the Kangaroo.

London Recumbents sell them.

I'd love one to take DD/DS to school/nursery in September. DH reckons I'd be the laughing stock Although he likes the look of the Kangaroo...

Actually, think the Kangaroo & the Nihola are about the same price.

there's the triobike as well.

am seriously contemplating one...

Arghhhh. I can't afford any of those
So beautiful though.

I'm gonna bid on a pashley that's up the road and on ebay.

Only thing that worries me is the fact it's wide and will annoy/hold up cars etc.

I hate this as a driver. Despite being a militant cyclist in my yoof.

It's better that it's wide, means that cars have to overtake properly rather than skimming past you as if you don't exist.

On the same note, one of the cycling magazines did a study and found that the most effective way of making cars give you more room is to wear a reflective jacket with sleeves.
It means they perceive you as bigger so pass you more widely.

I read that if you wear a helmet though, they go closer
Somewhere that sells hat-style helmet covers.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Thanks for your thoughts on the car issue. I'm still worried though - not so much about the safety element of that but the fact that on a narrow road I'd potentially be holding up a queue of traffic.

I often have to take part in these queues as a driver and find myself wondering exactly how environmentally beneficial the whole situation is when that happens - about 12 cars all going at 2 miles an hour up a hill while the poor stressed cyclist is slogging away trying to get to a wider point.

I know it would be better if everyone was on a bike and then that problem would disappear but I would hate to be that cyclist!

I'm trying to route plan realistically before I decide if the trike will work for us. If there aren't enough potential journeys I might have to think twice.

Bit more feedback here

And here

Thanks for those links, they were very helpful...I have fallen in love with the Christiania
Only £1250, what a bargain...if we hadn't got a car that is...

I am moving to Denmark asap.

We love our Bakfiets - been a good investment for us. We used to have a tigger flag on the back that would wave back and forth as I cycled along which was slightly silly but kids loved it and made us more visable. Haven't had much of that stressed 'cyclist holding up traffic' feeling, fwiw.
Check out the velorution website (sorry about lack of link) - as they sometimes do some of these (particularly the Chritiania's) second hand.
Thing about the Pashleys is that I thought childies might get a bit sick, travelling backwards. Also nice not to have your back to them, and no handy box/basket for slinging things into.
In terms of difficulty of pedalling - I find that I am okay on the flats (dc are 5&7) but really puff with any uphill.

Thanks for the info
I am scared of the Bakfiets, have looked at them online and I think I'd be really nervouse about falling over particularly at junctions etc
Otherwise they are beautiful.
I rang Velorution this am, and they have nothing s/h atm, but I liked his danish accent so will keep trying

Have to my shame bid on the christiania on ebay, which I cannot afford.
5 days to go and it's up to 600.

I have a Nihola, as you can read on the other threads that AW linked to.

I do think you need to know where you're going to cycle because, yes, if you had to cycle a lot on a narrow up hill road, you might find yourself under pressure and cars wouldn't be able to pass you. I know I do, and I only have small parts of my journeys where I feel like that.

The other thing to consider is that you can't really just pull over like with a two-wheeler, or even just get on the pavement (unless it's got a sloped kerby bit) because it's hard work getting it up a kerb, especially if it's loaded.

That said, I love mine, and all those cargo bikes really hold their value (as you can see with the Christiana on eBay) and they hardly ever come up second hand. I'd say that you'd get at least half its value back, so think of it in terms of paying 50% of asking price if you buy new iyswim!

Thankyou for that, I hadn't really thought of the kerbs issue. How do you manage getting up kerbs btw?!

The nihola looks lovely. There's a kangaroo on ebay at £1,100. I think the Nihola looks better. I wonder what the Christiania is going to make.

Also seen an 8- Freight at Velorution, which is 850 but it's reserved. They've got my number now at least

You get up kerbs with difficulty and just try to avoid having to do it! There is no easy way really. But most kerbs have dipped bits not far apart (what are those bits called??).

Good luck choosing!

Has anyone tried the trikidoo? think Helena Bonham Carter has one. I have twins and would love be able to get out and about without taking the car but all the options seem so expensive. DH thinks a normal bike with trailer is a better idea but I'm not so sure. Any advice?

If anyone got a Kangeroo bike for sale i would be very interested.