Quote Originally Posted by hebe View Post
Thank you so much for all your replies.

That mtbr link is really useful, I shall spend some time there reading.

The weeride is one of the front mount seats I was thinking about, also the Ibert which seems to be a bit lighter and fits on the stem rather than the top tube. I think the bottom line will be to try rear and front mounted and see which feels safer as clearly they'll change bike handling in different ways. I did think about trailers but would really want B close to me. I appreciate all your comments, there is a lot to think about.
here's a great page that has reviews with pros/cons of several different front-mount seats. it's a great family biking website in general

http://totcycle.com/blog/all-about-f...ike-seats.html