Whether to wear a helmet
By John Swindells
04 Jul 2004
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Trailer manufacturers will tell you that your child must wear a helmet in the trailer. Helmet wearing is considered so important that some of the trailers come with optional helmet cushions, helmet recesses, etc. So that's the official advice.Facebook
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We don't use helmets in the trailer; 2 children riding in a trailer, esp. 2 children of different ages, will bump heads frequently & with helmets on you're talking a lot more crowding & complaining about one child's helmet ending up in other child's face. I failed to see how to prevent these problems except by just not using helmets in the trailer in the first place. It's devilish difficult to get a helmet to fit a baby or small child perfectly, too. See the top of this discussion on rec.bicycles.misc about the practicalities of trying to use a helment in a trailer
One thing that cheered me no end was seeing on the Burley website that few of the Burley users themselves had helmets on their kids in the trailers, either.
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My name is John Swindells and I'm a keen recreational cyclist with a preference for long one-day rides. I've also previously dabbled in time trialling and cyclo-cross. See more of what I get up to on Strava!