So far I'm impressed. It's well engineered and, once it's all set up, it really does go on and off in seconds. I took it for a ride round the block without a child and, if not for the rattling that's inevitable with an unladen trailer, I wouldn't have known it was there.
The plan was then to take it round the block with Jenny on the back. Unfortunately I was a bit wobbly starting off, and before we'd gone 5 yards down the drive she decided she didn't want to go out after all :-(
Hopefully she'll be up for it again later in the afternoon.
-- Danny Colyer <http://www.redpedals.co.uk> Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often "The plural of anecdote is not data" - Frank Kotsonis
Hopefully she'll be up for it again later in the afternoon.
Woohoo. We've been round the block (3/4 mile) and by halfway round she was really enjoying herself. The laden FollowMe felt very stable to tow (even more so than a laden BoB). So this year's family rides will see Jenny on the FollowMe behind me (detaching her bike occasionally so that she can ride on her own), and Jenny on the trailer bike behind Mummy. Should be good.
-- Danny Colyer <http://www.redpedals.co.uk> Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often "The plural of anecdote is not data" - Frank Kotsonis
(even more so than a laden BoB). So this year's family rides will see Jenny on the FollowMe behind me (detaching her bike occasionally so that she can ride on her own), and Jenny on the trailer bike behind Mummy.
(even more so than a laden BoB). So this year's family rides will see Jenny on the FollowMe behind me (detaching her bike occasionally so that she can ride on her own), and Jenny on the trailer bike behind Mummy.
You have 2 daughters named Jenny?
It will certainly help avoid embarrassing mix ups over names. Just the other day, while presenting Bikeability badges to children from three schools, I inadvertantly called the headteacher of one school by the name of a headteacher from one of the other schools. The pupils were quick and unforgiving in their correcting me. How useful, I mused, if all headteachers had the same name.
(even more so than a laden BoB). So this year's family rides will see Jenny on the FollowMe behind me (detaching her bike occasionally so that she can ride on her own), and Jenny on the trailer bike behind Mummy.
You have 2 daughters named Jenny?
No, the second one's a son called Charlie, but I wasn't typing straight.
-- Danny Colyer <http://www.redpedals.co.uk> Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often "The plural of anecdote is not data" - Frank Kotsonis
It will certainly help avoid embarrassing mix ups over names. Just the other day, while presenting Bikeability badges to children from three schools, I inadvertantly called the headteacher of one school by the name of a headteacher from one of the other schools. The pupils were quick and unforgiving in their correcting me. How useful, I mused, if all headteachers had the same name.
Like in Australia, where they're all called Bruce, even the Sheilas.
