As a mum-cyclist, I often (and I am more sensitive on the subject) see parents on the road with their children in more or less dangerous or uncomfortable (and therefore dangerous) situations.
\nA little bit of risk always accompanies us in our lives, but not to expose ourselves too much and especially not to expose our children, I believe, is one of the main goals of a parent.<\/p>\n
Some time ago my family and I made the choice towards the TAGA BIKE, as it was stable and manoeuvrable, for transporting our son. Despite the fact that we are a family-cyclist who cycle every day, or perhaps because of this, because things happen even to the most experienced, neither my husband nor I felt like transporting our eldest son on a two-wheeled bike.<\/p>\n
At this point we researched and saw various solutions, from trolleys to numerous family bikes and cargo bikes.
\nWe chose the TAGA BIKE for a number of reasons, also explained here.
\nHowever, I can't help but notice different situations on the street.<\/p>\n
Children without helmets<\/strong>. I have been using TAGA for more than two years now. Never a potentially dangerous situation. However, I never go out without putting my son's helmet on because we do stretches on the road! Honestly, I should get used to wearing one too. I can't help noticing people on bicycles (bravo!) but unfortunately without helmets carrying 1 or even 2 children (not allowed by the highway code, read about it here)!<\/p>\n I often see them wobbling at starts or during turns; even an acquaintance of mine who had fallen before (fortunately without serious consequences for the child) found her losing her balance on bends, risking ending up under the car and what?! still without a helmet, I give it to her, it goes!<\/p>\n long tail or what? Before we discovered the existence of TAGA, we considered possible trolleys to attach to the bike, but we also discarded them right away and even before we discovered our Taghina.<\/p>\n Because yes, at the back and at the bottom, especially in the street, and then when you have to turn or cross the street it becomes just unacceptable. For us (personal opinion). I happened to do a bit of TAGA next to a mum in bike with trolley<\/strong>, direct confrontation confirmed all my possible concerns. As chance would have it, we did three different stretches side by side before leaving her far behind:<\/p>\n Road and main road crossing.<\/strong> It already makes me sick to see the kids on the back and bottom attached to the two-wheeler. The good thing is that at least, unlike the seat on the two-wheeled bike, the trolley stays upright so there is no risk of it falling over. The flag signals to the cars that there is something besides the cyclist. It was instinctive for me to stroke my son, sitting comfortably in my arms and think, thank God, I have Taghina. I don't know how he then managed to cross the road at a busy spot. Blocks for bicycles before entering a cycle lane.<\/strong> Passing the blocks quietly, I looked back to see what you do in the case of the trolley. Nothing, you just get off and manoeuvre it through. I was curious if one even had to detach the trolley to pass. No, fortunately it didn't have to come to that.<\/p>\n Descent and subsequent ascent.<\/strong> I haven't seen it downhill, in fact I was curious, but I was busy not taking too much speed on one side, and sharing my son's obvious enthusiasm, which was more important than a comparison. However I am curious to see how it goes downhill, the trolley doesn't have brakes! Ah, now, why the long tails?! Lately I've been hearing about these long tails, it must be the fashion of the recent moment like the shuttle bikes (do you know?!) of last season and I'm wondering as I did then, but why?! Or maybe not. I can understand for transporting cargo where you don't have much space, perhaps the long tails could even be an alternative to other cargo bikes which are indeed bulkier in width. But for transporting children!... On 2 wheels and longer, it will be even more difficult to ride, and then, what it saves in width, it takes back in length, even going so far as to be illegal if it exceeds 3 metres in length. And then I doubt (to be verified) that it will pass through the track blocks.<\/p>\n Returning to the question of bicycle footprint<\/strong> and pointing out that the highway code limits the dimensions not to exceed 1.30 metres in width x 3 metres in length and 2.2 metres in height, it must be said that the handlebars of a bicycle range from 63 cm (uuultra slim) to 78 cm, which affects the overall dimensions. My Taghina is 73 cm wide (73x165x102h), while the new TAGA Family bike is 78 x 193 x 114h.<\/p>\n So it is anything but cumbersome!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La mia sui caschi, carrelli e le long-tail. (esperienza personale) Come una mamma-ciclista, mi capita spesso (e sono pi\u00f9 sensibile sull\u2019argomento) di vedere i genitori in strada con i propri pargoli in situazioni pi\u00f9 o meno pericolose o scomode (e quindi pericolose). Un po\u2019 di rischio ci accompagna sempre nella nostra vita, ma non esporsi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagacargobikes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEither I removed it or I was too focused on the traffic, as much as the TAGA offers a very good view, better even than when standing, it is always better to be very careful when crossing.<\/p>\n
\nOn the other hand, after making the ascent in a hurried manner, I stopped out of curiosity to see how it is done, and so I know: it is done on foot by pushing. Perhaps with the motor it would go better. I was without.<\/p>\n
\nAgain, my personal opinion as a laywoman who has never tried one or the other and only judges by seeing and thinking: you want to ride a bike, you ride a bike, you want to ride in the sea there is a wide choice, even eco-friendly ones like the pedalo.<\/p>\n