I can only admire love to bikes especially when it comes to family riding. However, what do you do, when the kids are not old enough to go on their own with your speed, but too big for bike carriers. When the kids are really small you can use bike seats, but once your kids are ready to help pull their weight it’s time to think of other options. And guess what the big box stores will tell you when you ask them for this kind of solution – it’s impossible!
Meet Boise Idaho’s Kristin Smith. She loves biking, but with three kids under 6 it seemed like an impossible task. It is hard to keep all kids inline when they ride their own bikes, so she decided to go custom route. Kristin bikes around town on a triple bicycle. It has three seats, three handlebars and three sets of pedals for her two daughters. And now that her son is 3 years old she has added a “plus one”- a tag along bike- to the back for a truly family bike.
The Smith’s bike was custom-made, but there are commercial dealers of triple bikes. Are you on a market for one of these?
California based Santana Tandems company specializes in triplet bikes (Starting at $6100), but can also do Quad, Quint & Hex (starting at $8990).
Co-Motion, a company in Oregon, hand crafts tandems, Triplets, Quads, Quints with tandems starting at $3700 and triplets starting at $6400.
This is what I call a real love for bicycles – this bike definitely keeps a family together.
WAW!!!! This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time 🙂 Wish I could hop on one of those bikes
I never knew they made bikes for so many. That would be really fun to get my entire family on one bike.
Growing up my fbest friend had one for two people… It was always a challenge to ride it but it was so much fun!!
Wow! I thought finding a way to bike with one kid was tough! Rock on!
Dawn
How amazing is this and I’m thinking it takes a lot of working together as a team to ride something like this smoothly.
WOW. I love the “cross country” family on the bottom. I would totally love to try the tri bike!
whoa that crazy tandem bike that fits a family is soo cool!!
xo,
Sandy
Sandy a la Mode
That’s CRAZY. THat woman in the video is a BEAST!!
Okay that’s way too much fun! LOVE THIS!
xxoo
Tairalyn
Love her description of the families turning radius. “lie a semi but better for the environment.” too funny.
Wow I wish I can be like that woman in the video
How sweet are those bikes! That looks like a great time. I use to ride with my parents all the time. Hope to continue the tradition when my tots are bike ready!
I haven’t biked in forever. Not sure I still can ~ LOL!! This one looks super cool though!
That’s awesome! That would be so nice to keep all the kids together..can be scary on the road.
This is so great! I love that bike. I wish I could get my whole family to do this with me!