Kettler Flipper Bike Seat, Black/Blue

This is a really great bike seat, my two sons both enjoy riding in this. Overall, it seems well made and nice and I would recommend it.I ADDED AN EDIT AT THE BOTTOM AND CHANGED FROM 4 TO 2 STARS!Pros:Adjustable in the leg wells. We had a copilot limo and my 41 inch tall 41lb 3 year old son fit well in the actual seat portion, but his legs had to hang over because he could not fit them in the leg wells. The leg wells were the perfect length for my 32 inch tall 11 month old son, but even he would have outgrown it by 18-24 months and it would have been cramped. But the Kettler has much longer and more adjustable leg wells. However, I feel the actual seat portion is tiny and could/should be a but more generously sized.I like the way it mounts and sits on the bike. I like the rack-less design because you can remove it easily.The bright colors is nice because I feel it makes it more visible.Cons:While the leg wells are a good length to fit my older son, the seat portion is small. The seat is not very deep, wide or tall and I find it to be quite small and cramped for him. I don't see how the seat could accommodate a child that is 50lbs.Not easily adjusted. This is my least favorite part about the seat. In order to adjust the leg wells, you have to unscrew them with a screw driver and reinstall them. And in order to adjust the back height, you have to remove plastic screw and reinstall. I thought they should make it more easily adjusted, without having to literally take it apart and use tools.The instructions are a MESS. All you get is a very poorly drawn, picture only instruction. I am not mechanically inclined, so maybe it is just me. But even my husband thought the instructions were just awful. It literally took me 2 hours to figure it out, and another 45 to get it adjusted just right on the bike.The seat is just basically a small chair on the bike. I prefer the copilot in the sense that it kind of encased your child. Since the seat is so small my sons regularly have shoulders and arms hanging out and over the seat. I could see that ending really badly if I ever fell. With nothing around them to keep them from getting bad road rash, or nothing to keep an arm from getting stuck under in a fall, or to keep a shoulder or head from smacking the ground, I find it a bit unsafe. The copilot has a generously sizes seat that wraps around the child's body, keeping all limbs and body parts within the seat. Seems much safer to have it that way, versus just hanging out and over.Overall, I like the seat, but it could use some improvements, especially for the price.EDIT**** Okay, VERY upset. I have had this seat now for about 3 months, and it was fine at first. My sons were able to fit and ride in it fine at first, then all of a sudden even the SLIGHTEST bump would cause the seat to bounce so much that it would come down and hit the wheel. We adjusted it, and moved it up as high as it would go. It is about 4-5 inches off of my wheel and that is as high as my frame will allow. I am 5' 5" and I have an average sized women's bike. According to Kettler, it SHOULD work, but doesn't. The bar they are using must be too cheap and got too bendy and floppy and I am REALLY upset about this. Not only is this VERY dangerous because every time it hits my wheel my bike goes off balance, but it should be made better so it does not do this. This seat should not be hitting a wheel. This has started to happen just within the past 2 weeks all of a sudden, and has gotten worse with every use. What an AWFUL product! It says up to 50lbs, so my kids are not out of the weight range. So upset because I actually did kind of like the seat at first. I had come to LOVE the dimple for their helmet, no other seat I have found had this. And I found the recline to be semi-decent, I am trying a different brand, so upset!

This child seat is made from very cheap plastic and low grade metal, and in addition to suffering from poor quality materials, is one of the most poorly manufactured products of any kind that I have seen.The molding "flash" was not trimmed off and in places was razor sharp.The cross bar has no effective lock. It can easily be opened by a child. There is no positive lock - only a 1/2 mm bump to hold it in place. Both sides of the cross bar appear ready to fall off at any time.The reclining mechanism will not stay "up" and has no gradient recline. It is either "up" or "back" and can, and does, snap to "recline" if any jostling occurs.The head support (the upper blue part) is supposed to lock in place with small buttons, which a) do not fit and b) are so brittle they snapped and stripped out. Hence, the head support is unlikely to hold in place in the event of a fall and will compound injury rather than protect head and shoulders from injury.The mounting device is made of cheap metal and poor quality plastic and fell apart in my hands when I bolted it on to the bike. The bolts themselves were extremely brittle and the heads stripped out (have you ever heard of an allen-head strip out?).The seat rattles like a can of safety pins. The leg panels were warped and as such hugged the bike so tightly as to nearly interfere with the wheel spokes. All the decals were coming off when I removed it from the box.The panniers it is supposed to come with were not in the box. There were other missing pieces, and several pieces that were included that clearly did not belong with the Kettler Flipper.Seat belts are cheap thin nylon and the adjustment devices don't hold the adjustments in place. They are mounted with poor quality mounting devices that appear ready to snap off. The buckle is extremely difficult to unbuckle without breaking fingernails, even when nails are cut very short.The instructions are incomprehensible pictograms, and no English translation of the scant written instructions are included.The mounting rack was not "true" and so the seat could not sit on the bike square, even if I had been able to fully mount it. The back and forth adjustment is so badly designed it cannot be moved forward without fouling on the bicycle seat.The safety lock puts a small pin approximately 1 mm through one side only of the two mounting tubes. It looks like a hard jolt can pop it out and the seat can then fall off the bike.I am returning this and getting a different brand.

Great bike seat for my 6 yo and my 3 yo. Surprisingly strong and is particularly great since it works on just about any bike including my vintage road bike that has none of the usually required eyelets or mounts for a rack/rack-mounted child seat. And it only leaves a very small mount on the frame when the seat is not on...barely noticeable. Couldn't be happier. As for the problems of bounciness described by others. I wonder if ther were installation probs... Installation can be hard, especially getting the seat all the way onto the metal slider rack. But I was able to do it with the hels of a large flathead screwdriver which I used as a ramp to allow the plastic seat to slide over the metal pieces on the frame. If it weren't for that, the seat would have hung too far back ans WOULD have been bouncy.

NICE but very narrow.

As the great grand parents of a special needs child, we used this to modify a all terrain tricycle for her use. High quality and heavy duty, well built and it was easily converted to our use.

My daughter is tall but she still loves to use the foot rest. GREATand safe seat! The reclining seat is a great idea to help the kids stay relaxed during the ride

Ich bin total zufrieden mit dem Fahrradsitz! Er war schnell montiert und startklar.Sehr sinnvoll finde ich dass man die Rückenlehne in der Höhe und der Neigung verstellen kann. Außerdem wurde bei diesem Sitz endlich mal der Fahrradhelm des Kindes bedacht, es gibt eine extra Ausbuchtung. Die Anschnaller liegen gut am Kind und sind nicht so einfach zu öffnen für die besonders pfiffigen Kinder. ;-) Praktisch finde ich den Bügel, da hat das Kind dann noch eine Möglichkeit sich festzuhalten.Und jetzt das allerwichtigste: Meine Tochter (14 Monate) ist total zufrieden und mega glücklich wenn es losgeht. Sie hobst schon immer von einem zum anderen Bein wenn ich ihr nur den Helm aufsetze.Alles in allem: auf jeden Fall empfehlenswert!

Einfach super. Bin sehr zufrieden. schneller Versand und Einbau leicht gemacht. TOP!!!! Das wichtigste es gefällt meiner Tochter!!! Ich Persönlich kann es nur weiter Empfehlen.