CoPilot Limo Bicycle Child Seat

this is a great buy!there is a lot of protection for the child's head and sides incase of a fall.the front bar is great to have, although it's not secure so the child (if old enough) will have no problem pulling it up.the pads on the sides aren't very secure either and although they stay in place because of their stiffness, my daughter likes to pull them off from the sides.it does recline and this is nice because if it didn't i doubt i would like it. we keep it in the reclined position always.it is very easy to install onto the bike rack and also easy to take off. it is also very secure!it is very light weight and can easily be carried with one hand.the seat belt is not as secure as i would like. probably because of it's small width. there are 3(?) adjustment holes for it. when we got it our daughter was about 1, and if i remember correctly, we had to put the adjustment to the highest level. our daughter is a tall girl, but not that tall.it is much sturdier than the cheaper child's bike seats you can buy at like walmart and like i said, much more protection around the head and sides! for your childs safety, this is worth the price.this is a great buy. our daughter is 2 and she still fits very easily in it. we'll be using this for all of our kids, as long as it holds up, which i'm sure it will :)

Please, listen to the previous reviewers who talked about the difficulty in installing this seat. If you are not a bicycle mechanic, you really are better off finding a professional to do this for you. I say that after having spent the last 6 six hours or so working on this, and even though I have now successfully installed this seat and reassembled my bike, I don't trust that the bike wheel, gears, and brakes are all back the way they should be and I'm going to end up taking the whole shebang to a bike shop for them to check it anyway. Should have just paid them to do it up front and saved myself the aggravation. Having said that, the seat looks to be comfortable and safe and a good product. Quality of seat: 5 stars. Ease of installation: 1 star....I used the average of those two scores to come up with my three star rating.Note: It's now a couple of hours since I posted that review. I just tried to remove the seat from the bracket so I can load the bike in my car to take it to the shop tomorrow. I came a hair's breath away from slicing off the tip of my thumb in the process, and consider myself lucky to have only a bruised and swollen thumb that will probably lose its nail. Be careful of the front safety latch and sliding the seat off. And for sure don't let your kids anywhere near it. Now bumping my rating down to two stars and seriously regretting ever thinking about putting a seat on my bike....

It earns 1 star because my daughter has at least enjoyed sitting in the seat on the ground, in the living room, while I've been cursing at this inane manual. I have not actually achieved anything close to installation of this seat, and I'm not too hopeful at the moment. It astounds me that in the age of the Internet, graphic design, information design, etc. that any company can build a (seemingly) quality product and accompany it with such a disastrous instructional manual. And I've installed IKEA, so I know crappy instructions! Seriously folks. How about a couple of photos of actually installing it on, you know, a bike? How about a website with a video or two? How about a definition of the parts that are included and what the hell they are for? The instructions for installing it are literally not much more than "Step 1: Install it onto your bike". I'm not kidding, it's that bad.If anyone at the company reads this, just consider that while my daughter is literally in the other room wearing her new bike helmet in anticipation of the ride that we're *not* about to take, I am so pissed that I dropped what I was doing to sit at the computer and give this product this review. That's how bad your instructions are. Might want to think about that.

This seat works great once installed. It is very comfortable for the child (my 2 year old fell asleep in it on the first trip out). Very secure with harness, foot straps and a pull down horizontal bar that then locks in place so I felt very comfortable with it. Balance is good. Rode 10 miles first trip out and had no problems.Buyer Beware!!!! My one complaint has to do with the included bike rack. If you have a mountain bike with disc brakes and quick release, it simply doesn't work!!! I only found this out after receiving the item and realizing there is no way for the Blackburn Expedition Plus rack included to be installed. After doing some additional research on the problem I found that Blackburn now sells a different version of their rack (look for Blackburn rack for Disc Brakes) that is meant for bikes with disc brakes but that is not what is included in the co-pilot box. So, I was able to purchase the modified rack on Amazon for $60 and at least get the seat installed but I feel cheated in that I feel like I paid twice for a rack for the seat (assuming the price of the seat would be less if it didn't include the rack). It would be especially useful for the co-pilot people to make it very clear their included rack doesn't work with all bikes but their box actually says "Seat and Rack works with virtually all Bicycles"!!!! Talk about false adverstising. Very disappointed in this aspect of the seat but the seat itself is great.