Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My husband might hate me telling this story, but here: we bought this at his urge because: oh gosh, awards, colors, reviews it looks way better than the other seats we kept browsing. I was reticent of it, it was just a bike seat, what's the big deal? We decided his bike was better since he has better agility and balance than I do. Well, on our second use, while I was ahead of my husband I slowed down to ask him what road to take on a fork ahead of us, he slowed down and veered to our right, then sped up in front of me. To my motherly horror, as soon as he gained that speed, the whole seat came off, with our son on it, while his arms looked like flailing spaghetti. I have no idea how the crap I got off my bike without falling while I was still riding it. I screamed, I heard my son cry: MAMA, MAMA, MAMA, his seat rolled thrice, and all I thought was: his face is gliding on the pavement, his knees are scraped. He's grated cheese. My husband stops, I reach my son, I pick him up, he's bawling in fear still crying mama, mama. I take a look at him and he's whole, with ONE small scrape on his knee. That's it. He had a helmet, which helped him keep his face off the pavement. The locks on his feet helped keep his legs in place, the foam-rubber sides kept him cupped safely inside his seat. The seat came off because my husband had put the wrong side of the lock from the seat onto the base on the bike. Basically the dang seat was never attached and the inertia from his slowing down, his turn and his speeding made the seat come off. So, please pay very close attention to hearing that "click" sound when securing the seat to the base. Also, always make sure your kid has a helmet. I was so tempted of not putting the one we had that day because it was way too big, our ride was less than half a mile, it was in a closed off walkway, and my son was fighting putting the helmet on. Then I thought: it'd be really crappy if your husband falls off and your kid hits his head. So, I'm glad I got that seat, my son was cocooned safely in it, and always put a helmet on kids. Even if you're biking 10 feet.