Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The seat was fun while it lasted, but there's a serious design flaw that could seriously injure or kill the child. The T-shaped mounting bar is cast from soft, porous pig metal rather than something appropriate like steel, which probably saves them less than a dollar per unit but makes the mount far too weak for the stresses it carries. The photos below show a sudden fracture that happened to us (with a rider well below the advertised weight limit)--- I'm just thankful it happened on the trail instead of a busy street. The shiny edges in the photo show that it was a sudden fracture; I'm certain that there was no visible cracking or distortion when I put the seat on that morning, and there were no creaks or bending before the sudden failure. The dark spot in the middle is actually highly porous (looks like gas bubbles were entrapped or formed during the casting process), which compromised its strength--- it's highly unlikely that this was the only bad bar they ever shipped, and there's no surface inspection that will prove that another is OK. I wrote to the company the day this happened to send them pictures and suggest that they redesign the bar from a stronger (or more carefully controlled/inspected) material, but over three months later they have still taken no action. That's highly irresponsible, and the mechanical engineer (if indeed they employ one) who signed off on this design should switch careers, if not go to jail. Please don't buy their products.