{"id":2704,"date":"2013-09-17T17:45:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2013-09-17T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T22:45:25","slug":"infant-in-a-bike-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2013\/infant-in-a-bike-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant in a Bike Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though all of the bike trailer companies and the American Medical Association say you aren’t supposed to let an infant ride in a bike trailer, we’ve been pulling Nadia in our Chariot Cougar 2<\/a> since she was 5 months old. \u00a0Obviously, the trailer companies want you to be extra careful so they don’t get sued and the AMA is smart to say babies need to be a year old – at that point pretty much all babies can hold their head with a helmet on it. \u00a0Wearing a helmet is a given and being able to control your neck and head does seem pretty important.<\/p>\n

We took care of those issues by rigging up a way to use Nadia’s car seat<\/a> in the Chariot. \u00a0If it is safe enough for a car, why not a bike?<\/p>\n

Here’s a short video that shows how I did it:<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xZG2nBNW96U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though all of the bike trailer companies and the American Medical Association say you aren’t supposed to let an infant ride in a bike trailer, we’ve been pulling Nadia in our Chariot Cougar 2 since she was 5 months old. \u00a0Obviously, the trailer companies want you to be extra careful so they don’t get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,4,24,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-information","category-safety","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-HC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2623,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2011\/weekly-report-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":2704,"position":0},"title":"Weekly Report","author":"crossn81","date":"April 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"41 miles of biking. \u00a0WOW!! 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