Several options exist for transporting cycling with my baby; trailer, bike seat or baby carrier (baby front carrier or sling, which secures the baby against the parent’s chest). I asked the pediatrician for advice on the baby carrier option, to which he advised me that cycling with a baby in a baby carrier is equivalent to skiing with a baby on your back. It’s only dangerous if you fall.

Bike seats, though very popular and pratical for the city, are identified by the Swiss Association Transports et Environment as less preferable to bike trailers, due to lack of stability stability.

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Every holiday we’ve been on since we met four years ago has been a cycle tour. That meant that for us baby bike transportation needed to be suitable for long distances in variable weather. The trailer was the only choice. Superior stability aside (they are practically impossible to roll), trailers offer supreme comfort for babies from one month old (suspended in the Thule Infant Sling aka baby hammock), along with plenty of luggage space.

The downside with trailers is the weight, with the lightest weighing over 10 kilograms. Living in the mountains as we do, no matter where you cycle, you will be going up. Towing a trailer gives you a new point of view, any climb you previously thought of as hard, will take on new dimensions of difficulty. You will develop awesome leg strength and when you do take a ride without the trailer, you will be amazed at how fast and light your bike feels.