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WeeRide Kangaroo Child Bike Seat | 
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| Brand: WeeRide
Category: Sports
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $54.84
You Save: $25.15 (31%)
New (4) Used (1) from $49.95
Rating:  143 reviews
Sales Rank: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.5
Dimensions (in): 19 x 17 x 10
MPN: 980551
Model: 98055
UPC: 755553980551
EAN: 0755553980551
ASIN: B000FIH0EG
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Center-mounted bike seat for your child provides front-row view, added protection from your surrounding arms | | • | New sleeker design | | • | Sturdy steel/plastic construction; installs on almost any adult bike | | • | Features seat harness, height-adjustable foot cups, and padded front bumper | | • | For kids ages one year and up; maximum weight of 40 pounds |
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Product Description
The WeeRide Kangaroo child seat offers an innovative riding position so the child is visible at all times and can be heard and attended to more easily. The child is provided with a more interesting view, and the weight distribution actually works to enhance the bicycle's stability. All in all, it offers enhanced safety and a more comfortable, enjoyable ride for the child.
Amazon.com Product Description
The WeeRide Kangaroo center-mounted bike seat offers an award-winning design that makes biking with your child much safer and much more fun. It's installed onto virtually any bicycle via a patent pending, independent steel support bar that attaches between the front handle bar tube and the seat post. It provides a much more enjoyable and interactive experience for the child and rider. Your child's needs can be heard, seen and attended to more easily, and he or she has a more interesting view--no more staring at someone's back. Other advantages include no dangling arms or legs to reach wheels and the rear of the bike is free to carry your gear. The seat is made from an injection-molded plastic form, and it features a comfortable padded foam seat, height adjustable foot cups, and a fully adjustable three-point security harness. The Padded pedestal armrest sitting atop the handlebars gives children somewhere comfortable to put their hands, and can serve as a headrest for the napping toddler. The steel support bar is an independent support system that does not interfere with brake cables or other attached bicycle gear. It includes different sizes of plastic spacers for the front yoke attachment and rear seat post to protect the posts and ensure it fits on almost any recreational bicycle available. It's easily removable for when you want to ride on your own. It can be used with mountain/city bikes with upright handlebars (with drop-handled racing handlebars, the rider leans forward too much for the child to sit comfortably). Children should be at least 1 year old, and it has a maximum weight capacity of 40 pounds. This bike seat is designed for casual riding on smooth, flat, paved and dry surfaces free of sand, gravel or dirt.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 138 more reviews...
wee ride child's bicycle seat July 22, 2008
The beauty of having a child with you on the bicycle is the ability to share the sights and sounds and experiences that are present around you. With this front-mounted seat you get to see what the child sees, and to have a running dialogue with him. Excellent
 wonderful and fun ride July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My son is 20 months old, and is very tall for his age. I was concerned if this seat would be able to fit him (and still accommodate my lanky self on my bike). I admittedly was skeptical after seeing some negative reviews on this product (surprisingly, no one mentions the age of their kids - important for a product such as this).
Having used this for a week now, I am a total convert and will enthusiastically recommend this to anyone. Not only does it fit my son, but it also allows me to ride my bike without any problems (no wide-angling of my legs). I have a standard $80 road-bike bought from Walmart, nothing fancy here. I have been able to ride for an hour on my bike with my kid without any discomfort at all. I love the fact that it is front-mounted, and the hand/head-rest is very convenient for my son to hold on to. His feet rest correctly in the bottom section of the seat, and the seat-belt is easy to put on and take off.
I now wake up to the calls off 'biking' from my son early in the morning. :-)
great so far... July 15, 2008
This seat works great for me. I do not experience any of the difficulty in pedaling that others have noted, and I am even able to stand most of the way up to pedal up hills (I am 5'-10" tall and I have the seat mounted on a Giant Rincon mountain bike). My one (minor) complaint is that I wish the back of the seat came up a little higher - my son is always trying to lean his head back into my chest as we are riding - perhaps a removeable head rest or something.
 Disappointed July 14, 2008
I thought this would be a perfect alternative to the caboose type carrier, but I was very disappointed. The straps are way too long for my child (and probably for most kids--my daughter is 22 lbs and 30 in. tall). The seat is almost exactly straight up so she was leaning forward making it uncomfortable. I returned it.
Good Item - Larger Straps now available July 14, 2008
I ordered this item around 5 months ago just as my son was turing 2. I read some of the concerns from others but ordered anyway becuase the item is so unique. Didn't have a problem with the item fitting my mountain bike (giant). Installation from fairly easy, I wouldn't say it's simple, but the directions seemed fine to me. I didn't have any issues with the turning radius of the bike after installation as some have indicated, and I'm only 5'8 so I have a smaller bike to begin with. I have noticed that after 4 months I can no longer strap the bottm straps around my son's legs, and the overall strapping mechanism is fairly clumsy to begin with becuase the straps don't come completely apart and you have to kind of put the kid down through the middle of them while you are trying to hold your bike up. I'm not able to sit on the seat while the bike isn't moving becuase his seat is too close to mine until I'm actually sitting on it. I need of a rolling start and then I just kick my leg over the tap and jump on the seat at the same time. Fine for me, but not for everybody. I just went to the weeride website and called the manufacturer and they apparently now have larger replacement straps that they will send out. Currently it is at no charge. I'm not sure if it also addresses the fact that the current ones don't completely separate because of the fixed chest strap that is permanent, but they are at least larger and should allow you child to use the seat until the age/weight it is actually intended.
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