Realising the Dream - Highlights of the WeeRide Story

About 15 years ago, a father tried to take his young son with him on a bicycle outing. He bought a bicycle child carrier for the back of his bike, put the child in, and pedalled off. Half an hour later the child was screaming. The child, once removed from the bicycle, refused to go back in the carrier! Father carried home the child, pushed home the bike, and concluded there must be a better way.

So begins the story of Malcolm Jefferson's quest; a quest for the perfect bicycle carrier that would take 15 years and take him on an emotional roller coaster ride. Being a carpenter by trade, he quickly created a wooden child carrier that could be mounted in front of the rider, over the bicycle's center of gravity. His son loved it. So did everyone else who saw it.

A Revolutionary New Concept

The WeeRide Centric centre-mounted bicycle child carrier is an award-winning new design that makes biking with a child much safer and much more fun!

The centre-mounted carrier is attached to a specially designed bar that fits virtually any bicycle.

The result is a carrier from which children can enjoy and share in the cycling experience, surrounded by a protective pair of arms.

Advantages:
• Child is visible at all times by rider
• Child's needs can be heard, seen and attended to more easily
• Child's weight enhances rather than impairs bicycle stability
• Child has interesting view - no more staring at someone's back!
• No dangling arms or legs to reach wheels
• Rear of bike is free to carry equipment

A Revolutionary New Design

The WeeRide Centric center-mounted bicycle child carrier mounts on almost any bicycle by way of an ingenious, patent pending, independent steel support bar that attaches between the front handle bar tube and the seat post.

The result provides the following advantages:
• Improved balance for rider due to child's central position on bicycle
• Better communication between adult and child
• More comfortable, enjoyable riding experience for child
• Enhanced safety because adult's arms surround child
• Easy to remove child carrier for riding alone

From The Age Of 1

At about the age of one year the neck development of some babies approaches the point where they can tolerate the weight of a helmet while awake. A baby seated upright in a child carrier seat will go to sleep frequently, that's why the WeeRide has the build-in sleep podium, otherwise usually when that happens, the parent must stop and wait for the child to finish napping.

Most parents with Rear-Mounted Seats don't have that much patience. It is common to see parents still riding, with the child's head lolling around with every bump and wobble of the bike.