Hi Sasha,
Wike (www.wike.ca) has some guidelines on when to start trailering a child. They also have some nice flexible DIY kits for building your own trailer.
Chris --- dragonfly@mac.hush.com wrote:
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Hello, Everyone.
Thank you, Rachael. I have enjoyed reading everyone's posts over the past coupleof months.
My daughter, Anna, was born on May 29th. I had her at home atmy mother's house in Toronto, helped by midwives, one of whom has known me since I was around seven years old.
My mum cut the cord, so three generations of the women of ourfamily were involved in that act.
Since then, we've all been getting used to our new lives, soother things have fallen by the wayside.
However, we did manage to put together a bike-shop-in-a-boxfor my friend's First Nation community-- it all fits onto a bike trailer we made for it!
I'd like to thank everyone who posted suggestions and helpabout that project. Thank you.
I reread everything you wrote to me, and also many of theother good posts about tools and equipment that people have shared on this list serve. You are all wonderful people and I love learning from you.
I'm disorganized right now, so you'd have to be patient whileI farted around getting it to you, but I would be happy to send info about our portable shop to those who'd like it.
I have new questions for all of you now: I'm sure many of you are in families of commuter cyclists--how young were your children when you started putting them in bike trailers or into one of those little seats?
Did you ride with them during their first winter of life, ordid you wait until they were a little bigger for all-season communter cycling?
Do any of you get asked for help figuring out how to be bikedependant with little kids when you are at your shops?
Thank you all again. I've included a couple pictures of my kid, just because I'mbesotted with her.
I hope you are all having a wonderful summer. SashaOn Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:16:59 -0400 rachael spiewak rachael@sopobikes.org wrote:
hi, everyone.
just wanted to pass along a guide to basic repairs illustrated by one of our volunteers (it also includes a few pages about bike anatomy from the BICAS manual): http://sopobikes.org/static/basicsmanual.pdf
enjoy!
rachael
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