Mastodawn

Q7. What additional precautions do you take to protect children while you are carrying them on your bicycle? Do you advertise their presence, in hopes drivers will be more careful around you? Do you use flags, or a "baby on board" placard?

We have a large front loader with a baby car seat adapter and it'll be our main form of child transport; we're car free.

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ajft [SEC=continvoucly morged]1d ago

@ascentale @skyfaller @bikenite #BikeNite A7 some years ago now, given that the teenager is now well past being carried. I generally found that the mere presence of the kid, either in a trailer or on the tag-a-long suddenly made motorists who 'cannot see cyclists' overtake with 2m to spare, stop to let us turn even when legally they shouldn't, and follow us slowly if they couldn't pass

There was also the once or twice a year we'd get some screamed abuse about us endangering our child by taking them on the public road, usually by a person driving who was clearly the sort who would endanger our child by driving on a public road

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Nelson

@ajft @ascentale @bikenite I hope for drivers to be more careful around children, but that's why I asked about advertising the presence of a child. I fear that by the time they get close enough to see my child clearly it may be too late for them to drive more carefully. My frontloader means the child is in the front, so cars approaching from behind may not see the child until they have already passed me.