I installed the same co pilot recently and my son loves it, he’s 5. To protect my seat post I cut a short length of tire tube, put some silicone grease inside and slid it to the mounting point on the post.
rkymtnrsx that’s a good idea. I do wish there was an easier way to dismount the bracket from the seatpost. You can unhook the bike easy enough, but those screws that mount the bracket are way long and you have to completely unscrew all 4... #firstworldproblems
Thanks for this detailed video and review! When you do turn on your bike, does the seat turn? (A lot of reviewers on Amazon say this happens. I wonder if the bit of fabric around your seat post ends up minimizing this.)
Erin C yea, you have to be careful with how sharp you turn, it seems to turn the seat really easily. If you used something too slick, the clamp would probably slide up or down the post as well... then the arm attaching the trailer bike to your bike would possibly run on the rear tire. Not sure there is a good way to fix it, so long as it mounts on the seat post.
Word of warning (for awareness, not warning off), do NOT hold the back of your seat when walking with one of these attached, if it jack-knifes it can extremely quickly turn from a turning position to a 90-degree vertical position; I just had this happen the other day, ripped out half of my fingernail bed. My seat is closer than this video, but at least several inches from the coupling, it didn't seem at all possible to get a hand caught but believe me it is! My father-in-law then tried to figure out what happened and nearly also had his hand ripped off when it jack-knifed and changed angle in a split second. These are great no doubt about that, our 3.5yo can happily trail along, but be extremely wary of the joint and don't rest a hand/finger over the back of your seat or on the bar!
roguestreak that sounds pretty crappy. I have had issues with it rapidly shifting. More so with me it is when taking a turn too sharp, it will either spin my seat post in the seat tube or the bracket attaching the trailer to my seat post will shift. It really doesn’t have that great of rotational range at the pivoting point just behind that bracket.
So far I haven't had any instances of my seat or the bracket shifting, but haven't had much experience with it yet. I don't know if the above could potentially happen when riding or whether it's purely a walking thing, I was attempting to wheel the bike around 180 degrees and I believe it was a combination of turning too sharply with some banking of the bike (ie. not held vertically), resulting in a jack-knife on the vertical hinge. The bike's elsewhere at the moment, but I don't recall seeing those welded stops on mine; perhaps they are there and I haven't noticed, or perhaps mine's an earlier model and the stops were added later to address such an issue? (I picked mine up 2nd hand) Maybe that's why I inversely haven't (so far) had issues with the seat moving? If you do want to experiment, just make sure to keep your extremities well away from the area no matter how impossible it seems!
I had a look last night and mine definitely doesn't have the welded bump stops, and looking around at pictures online I've found multiple without them (silver models in particular); I'd guess this was added to later models, potentially to stop such incidents but inversely introducing the hassle of too-limited turning.
R Jardin it attaches just fine but doesn’t allow the dropper to function with the bike attached. It didn’t mar up the post, but I also wrapped a rag around the post to serve as a buffer between the trailer bike front clamp and the dropper post on my bike. Honestly, if you want to be able to quickly take the trailer off to ride your own bike, I would plan on having minimal, if any, use of your dropper. Otherwise you have to fully remove the front clamp from the seat post. The clamp is a 4 bolt design and so loosening (or removal, entirely) does take a minute or two. Other questions, feel free to shoot em out.
Any ideas on how to hang this copilot on a car bike rack such as Thule Apex XT? The bar on the copilot is too short to go through the 2 handles on the bike rack, anyone figured out a creative hack for this?
Sam Lugo I like it, I think the biggest complaint I have for this brand, is that the seat post mounting bracket is obnoxious to undo. It’s easy to quickly detach the trailing bike because of that bolt system behind the bracket, but the bracket takes a while to remove from my seat post if I want to go ride by myself. You can still ride with the bracket attached to your post, it just sticks out like 6 inches.
I installed the same co pilot recently and my son loves it, he’s 5. To protect my seat post I cut a short length of tire tube, put some silicone grease inside and slid it to the mounting point on the post.
rkymtnrsx that’s a good idea. I do wish there was an easier way to dismount the bracket from the seatpost. You can unhook the bike easy enough, but those screws that mount the bracket are way long and you have to completely unscrew all 4... #firstworldproblems
@@thegermmt6496 I'd consider another seat/post if it was that big an issue, unless you wanted to put it on another ride..
Thanks for this detailed video and review! When you do turn on your bike, does the seat turn? (A lot of reviewers on Amazon say this happens. I wonder if the bit of fabric around your seat post ends up minimizing this.)
Erin C yea, you have to be careful with how sharp you turn, it seems to turn the seat really easily. If you used something too slick, the clamp would probably slide up or down the post as well... then the arm attaching the trailer bike to your bike would possibly run on the rear tire. Not sure there is a good way to fix it, so long as it mounts on the seat post.
I am thinking about retro fitting my co pilot for trailing a small kayak when I am not trailing my child.
James Bond that’s awesome! Maybe I’ll do the same but put my kids inside the kayak.
Word of warning (for awareness, not warning off), do NOT hold the back of your seat when walking with one of these attached, if it jack-knifes it can extremely quickly turn from a turning position to a 90-degree vertical position; I just had this happen the other day, ripped out half of my fingernail bed. My seat is closer than this video, but at least several inches from the coupling, it didn't seem at all possible to get a hand caught but believe me it is! My father-in-law then tried to figure out what happened and nearly also had his hand ripped off when it jack-knifed and changed angle in a split second.
These are great no doubt about that, our 3.5yo can happily trail along, but be extremely wary of the joint and don't rest a hand/finger over the back of your seat or on the bar!
roguestreak that sounds pretty crappy. I have had issues with it rapidly shifting. More so with me it is when taking a turn too sharp, it will either spin my seat post in the seat tube or the bracket attaching the trailer to my seat post will shift. It really doesn’t have that great of rotational range at the pivoting point just behind that bracket.
So far I haven't had any instances of my seat or the bracket shifting, but haven't had much experience with it yet. I don't know if the above could potentially happen when riding or whether it's purely a walking thing, I was attempting to wheel the bike around 180 degrees and I believe it was a combination of turning too sharply with some banking of the bike (ie. not held vertically), resulting in a jack-knife on the vertical hinge.
The bike's elsewhere at the moment, but I don't recall seeing those welded stops on mine; perhaps they are there and I haven't noticed, or perhaps mine's an earlier model and the stops were added later to address such an issue? (I picked mine up 2nd hand) Maybe that's why I inversely haven't (so far) had issues with the seat moving?
If you do want to experiment, just make sure to keep your extremities well away from the area no matter how impossible it seems!
I had a look last night and mine definitely doesn't have the welded bump stops, and looking around at pictures online I've found multiple without them (silver models in particular); I'd guess this was added to later models, potentially to stop such incidents but inversely introducing the hassle of too-limited turning.
Hey great review. Quick question, I noticed you have a dropper post on your bike, have you had any problems with attaching the trailer to it?
R Jardin it attaches just fine but doesn’t allow the dropper to function with the bike attached. It didn’t mar up the post, but I also wrapped a rag around the post to serve as a buffer between the trailer bike front clamp and the dropper post on my bike. Honestly, if you want to be able to quickly take the trailer off to ride your own bike, I would plan on having minimal, if any, use of your dropper. Otherwise you have to fully remove the front clamp from the seat post. The clamp is a 4 bolt design and so loosening (or removal, entirely) does take a minute or two. Other questions, feel free to shoot em out.
Any ideas on how to hang this copilot on a car bike rack such as Thule Apex XT? The bar on the copilot is too short to go through the 2 handles on the bike rack, anyone figured out a creative hack for this?
Thanks for the video. On your mtn bike, just curious what is that blue-ish purple cable running up to your seat?
Dennis Gomolak it’s the housing for my dropper post cable
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Sam Lugo I like it, I think the biggest complaint I have for this brand, is that the seat post mounting bracket is obnoxious to undo. It’s easy to quickly detach the trailing bike because of that bolt system behind the bracket, but the bracket takes a while to remove from my seat post if I want to go ride by myself. You can still ride with the bracket attached to your post, it just sticks out like 6 inches.
4 years later it is $250...
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