FAQ: How do I carry children on the Mundo?
Great question! The answer that’s most applicable to you depends greatly on the age of your children. If you’re transporting children between the age of 9 months and about 5 years, and you’re looking for a pre-manufactured bicycling child seat, we recommend the Bobike Maxi. If you’re transporting children between the ages of 5 and 10, you may consider the Bobike Junior. A Bobike seat will attach securely to the seat tube of the Mundo using their special ATB bracket. The Bobike is one of the safest, lightest and most user-friendly child seats available, albeit a bit pricey. Stumptown Mundo doesn’t sell the Bobike seat, but our good friends at Clever Cycles in Portland have an excellent selection and great prices.
This being said, many people may choose to carry older children on a seat/cargo platform mounted securely to the Mundo’s top cargo rails. If this is your transportation mode of choice, we recommend attaching a set of stoker handlebars to the Mundo’s seat post for added stability for your passenger. For this configuration, we recommend using an adjustable stoker stem from our friends at Co-Motion, in Eugene, Oregon. This way you know you’ll have the correct size to fit your seat post. A typical threadless stem for a standard steering tube will either be too big or too small for the Mundo’s seat tube. The Co-Motion stem fits perfectly and doesn’t require any shimming.
Mundo with Co-Motion stem and Profile bars
Please note that if you use the Co-Motion stem, you’ll need to pay special attention to your handlebar selection. I know, those fancy Nitto touring bars would look pretty nice! This being said, most touring and cruiser bars are 24.5mm in diameter. The Co-Motion stem has a 31.8mm handlebar clamp. If you went with a typical touring/cruiser bar, you’d most likely have to shim the heck out of it. Not only would this be very challenging, it’s also not the safest solution. Because of this, we recommend purchasing a set of lightweight base road bars from the folks at Profile Design. They make a bar called the Airwing OS (apx. $30-$50), which fits the Co-Motion stem’s handlebar clamp perfectly. This is the exact setup we use here at Stumptown Mundo. We love that these bars give you a ton of flexibility in meeting your passenger’s preferred position –you can even flip the bars over to add another dimension to the configuration. Once you’ve got the position set, simply throw on your favorite set of grips and you’re ready to roll!
On a related note, Stumptown Mundo is working hard to introduce our own child carrying solutions. This includes a secure bracket for attaching an extra Bobike seat to the Mundo cargo platform, in tandem with a seat tube-mounted Bobike seat. That’s right… two child seats securely attached to your Mundo for maximum family friendliness. Additionally, we’re tooling away on building a non-Bobike fixed tandem seat that may bring down the cost of family haulin’ even further. If you’d like to add your own passenger/cargo top-deck, you can do that too!
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