Carbon Frame and child seat

shanecl

Guy's

I'm looking at a Giant XTC carbon frame but there is a condition attached with the permission to buy from the missus. I have to be able to attached a child seat for the odd family cycle. The one i am looking at is the type Halfords sell that clamps to the seat tube. Would you reckon this would have an adverse effect on the carbon as i suppose its not designed to take stress at that angle. She is currently 10kg and the seat will do her up to four years of age.

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The Rookie

Get a cheap hack bike for the job, ideally get a kiddy seat braced to the dropouts or you are putting one hence of a bending load into the seat tube.

shanecl

I was thinking that but i would be shot if i came home with two bikes, i already have a 2 roadbikes lol. It's not the most ideal way of doing this but it's all i'm allowed

nicklouse

shanecl wrote:

Would you reckon this would have an adverse effect on the carbon

yes. most carbon frame have reinforment for the front Mech so god knows what the weight of a child on a clamped braket will do.

as above cheap hack for kid duties.

shanecl

Was hoping i would be wrong, it's not often though, i'll look for a alu frame so. Thanks guys

The Rookie

You'll have a kiddy on the back, so the bikes weight and performance is rather irrelevant, just get a decentish used MTB off EBay or gumtree, v-brakes would be fine, you could get a more than good enough bike for circa £50-60.