Strapping Infants To Motorcycles Is A Perfect Idea With No Flaws

You’re a motorcyclist, but you’re also a parent — a new parent at that. You want nothing more than to share your hobby of motorcycling with the new kiddo, but they’re just too young to reach the passenger pegs on your Gixxer. Do you just sit back, put the bike in the garage, and shuttle them around in a safe, protective car for a few years?

Absolutely not! You strap a child’s car seat to your bike and take your newborn out for a rip. At least, that’s what Zach Courts and Ari Henning did over at RevZilla, seeking to prove the viability of newborns on motorcycles. The results? Shockingly positive.

Babies on Bikes! Testing Motorcycle Child Seats | Common Tread XP

Of course, the two didn’t use their own actual young children for this test. That’s the kind of move that ends with you in a police blotter, not on YouTube — at least, not on your own channel. Instead, Courts and Henning strapped accurately weighted baby dolls to their own motorcycles to see how the kids would fare.

To say the results were “good” is an understatement. You almost get the sense that the two didn’t expect their setups to work so well, perhaps thanks to some Wing-ebago-induced engineering trauma. So long as their wheels remained on the street, Courts and Henning’s not-kids remained firmly in their seats.

You should, probably, not carry an infant around on a motorcycle. For one, they don’t even make proper riding gear in those sizes. But the two hosts did make sure to mention that this idea is only out-there in countries like ours. Go to parts of Asia or South America, where two-wheeled transport is more common, and you may well see babies on bikes. Here? Not so much.