My daughter wants to kite buggy and I've been wracking my brain how to fit her into an adult-sized buggy. She's 11 years old and 4' 9" tall. Her feet don't reach the pegs well even when the buggy is set to its shortest position. The buggy I'm trying to fit her into in an old Peter Lynn Comp buggy. It's not big, but it's just not small enough.

Today I had the epiphany--I grabbed the seat off my wife's sit-a-top kayak, clipped it the buggy, adjusted the strap lengths and offered it to K. It worked great and took about 3 minutes to set up. See photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbchase/sets/72157625235860056/

Susan says the seat cost about $60 new. As I already had one in my garage it's FREE. Just the price I was hoping for. :-)

I fixed S-P-A-M-L-I-N-K-s favorite kite yesterday so maybe next weekend we'll see what she can do.

Philip

Necessity's a mother. :wow:

ATB,
Sam

This work great, I actually used one in my xr for a while. I found thought that a staduim seat worked a bit better for my kid as it made a bit more of a cup to hold him.



I removed the plastic/fiber rods from the seat bottom and back and then tied it down to the rails and I folded the top part over to make it even smaller width wise.

You could have done like Ricardo does and strap some wood blocks to the bottom of her feet so she could reach the pegs

Arkay that is what The Kidd and I both use for seats in our buggys. He sits his in the sdt PL seat for back support, And I didn't want to spend a bunch on a custom seat for my Rat. They work perfect.

How about a Kinderbuggy from Libre built just for kids.

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Originally posted by jellis How about a Kinderbuggy from Libre built just for kids.

Cool. If I didn't already have a spare buggy I'd bite.

Philip

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Originally posted by DAKITEZ You could have done like Ricardo does and strap some wood blocks to the bottom of her feet so she could reach the pegs

very funny .. i thought you were referring to yourself. should i bring up the pictures from NABX 2010 again of the MG. jealous he cant reach my footsteps on the ApeXX, than again either can Ken #3

the quickest thing is drill another set of holes on the downtube.

I thought those were Ricardo's blocks! Just kidding big guy.

jon is that the libre special new name,that what i ride when i'm not at nabx/sbbb,great for tricks and robust,eli look good in it at sbbb 2002 against dave s. kyte slinger

It is like the Libre Special but smaller, with side rails that help hold them in and a seat that has a great back rest. The new Sprinter is designed from the Special but with new foot pegs, a spray skirt, and a new seat design more like the V-Max II.

Jon is an amazing salesman ! A fellow is out for a buggy seat and you almost have him ( and hopefully a few others ) sold on a WHOLE baby buggy !

SMoooooth !!

Big points to Libre to see a need and to fill it ! :cool2: