One of the most enjoyable things about living in Australia is the fact that going for bike rides as a family is such a great way to spend your free time. My husband and I have a 2 year old girl who enjoys going for bike rides with us but is too young to ride her own bike, so we were looking for a good child bike seat.

As my husband wasn’t keen on the old type of rear mounted child bike seat as he didn’t like the idea of our daughter being behind him. I could see his point, it would be very social or much fun for our daughter if she was sat behind us in her child bike seat.

I tried everywhere to get a child bike seat that was more ‘family friendly’ but all the places selling bike seats for children seemed only stock a few different models. Then I came across ibert.co.nz which sells one of the most unique child bikes seats I have ever seen.

The child bike seat in question is the SafeTSeat which is front mounted onto an adult’s bike right behind the handle bars. This might sound a little dangerous for the child’s legs but they are totally protected by high impact plastic leg sections which go on either side of the handle bars.

Unlike many of the child bike seats that I have come across the SafeTSeat is easy to mount and remove so the adult rider can easily switch from carrying a child to riding alone. Previous to this my husband found it too much of a hassle to remove and re-mount our previous child’s seat so he left it on which he wasn’t too pleased about.

When I first saw the design of the child bike seat I was initially concerned that using it would shift the centre of gravity for the rider and make balancing quite difficult. I shouldn’t have worried as it doesn’t make any difference to the balance of the rider.

Now every time we go for a family bike ride we all get the benefits from this child bike seat. Our daughter feels as though she is riding between us, we can see her all the time and she gets a great view!

Now every time we go biking we use the SafeTSeat and I can safely say that I would never opt for another style of child’s bike seat again. It is practical, fun and most of all safe.