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Summary of the trailer’s strengths

• This trailer is great fun for the kids. I've never seen them enjoy rides as much as on the iGo Two. They squeal with glee on fast descents and small drops - I heard “Faster daddy, faster” and “Weeehooo!” a lot more on this than any other kid transport solutions I’ve tried. We figure that’s what inspired the trailer’s name.  

• The open design of the trailer really puts the kids in contact with the forest and trail, giving them a much more genuine outdoors experience. They see and communicate lots more observations on this trailer than they did in the past with others.

• The front kid *can* pedal along. That basically only happens on uphills when the kids tell me to “go faster daddy! Faster! Faster!”. The pedals have straps that allow you to secure the front child’s feet to the pedals, so no nasty slips during rides.

• The kids love having hand grips to hold onto during steeper descents or rough road sections. Whereas in other enclosed trailers they would get uneasy in some situations, with the WeeHoo the handles made them feel safe.

• There is a circular bashguard welded on to the frame around the BB area, which reduces the chances of the kid's cranks binding on obstacles on the trail. While we never scuffed anything with it during our rides, its a good idea. 

• The trailer follows the rider well, it was unusual for it to glance against any objects as you ride. The low and long design of the trailer makes it behave predictably in most situations. 

• The single inline wheel design means you can take this trailer on singletracks, but you are best to limit that to green or at most blue level trails.

• On flat sections of gravel and road I was able to keep up a good tempo, only two or three kph/mph below my solo cruising speed on the same bike solo.  Both kids are in the slipstream of the bike so do not catch as much wind to slow you down like a side by side trailer does.

And here are the main points that we thought were not optimal.

• The floating hitch design (where the metal hitch sits on a plastic bushing, but isn’t held down in any way) allows the hitch to occasionally jump, landing back on the frame's seatpost clamp with a sharp crack sound. You don't need to be riding offroad for this to happen. I don’t know how well frames are engineered against those stresses – but I feel that the hitch needs a design upgrade to stop this, not least because it startles the kids.

• The same hitch design means that the hitch ring will rotate around the seatpost when you arent pulling the kids, and you will inevitably strike it with the back of your leg or knee. This meant we had to remove the seatpost to take off the clamp for solo rides. We'd love to see this addressed, too. 

• A kickstand should have been delivered as a standard part of the trailer. The trailer is too large and heavy when loaded to have been supplied without, because the straddling technique shown in the manual only works for the front child. Although both kids can be loaded and unloaded without a stand, my wife was never able to. The process is a handful and the trailer fell over several times during the test (freaking out the kids). Even when you find a sturdy object to rest the bike and trailer against, you are still going to have your hands full during loading/offloading. Muscling the loaded trailer against a sturdy object isn't a sure solution because your bike's fork can flop to one side and send the bike and trailer toppling over. 

• The kids can move around a lot in the current harness. When both move together they throw you off balance enough to make you swerve off your line. This caught me off guard a few times on both bike paths and sent me onto the verge of a singletrack more than once. A 5-point harness as seen on other kid trailers would be a significant improvement, allowing you to hold the kids in a more static position.

• When your kid falls asleep, their head and shoulders flop about and you feel it changing your centre of gravity. Sleepy rolling heads stick out quite a lot from the side of the trailer. Although this never happened to us, I was worried that one day they'd fall asleep without me knowing and whack a trailside object. 

• The side pockets are a little too tight for the kids to easily be able to slip the bottles in and out. On top of that, there is no safety strap to secure anything you put in them. On one ride where my youngest wasn’t able to get a bottle back in the pocket we ended up losing her bottle it as a result. I ended up getting a pair of Camelbak Eddy bottles and looping a large mailing rubber band through the bottle handles and on the armrest tube. This solved the bottle loss, but we feel this needs to be improved.

• One of the trailer’s biggest plus points (its open design) is also a disadvantage: they cop the full brunt of wind, weather and solar rays. You need to dress and protect them accordingly, and can’t stay out as long as you would with an enclosed alternative. Particularly the front child needs to be dressed warmly when the temperature starts getting cool. This also means that your family riding season is shorter than with an enclosed trailer as kids aren’t always capable of communicating they’re cold until they are very cold, indeed.

• We tried using the trailer on a bike with a dropper post that had an internal actuation mechanism but quickly discovered that doing so would make the installation semi-permanent. This is because the control cable needed to be removed to slip the bushing and hitch over. It did work fine on another dropper with a crown actuation.  

• We couldn’t get this trailer inside the car (possibly the wagon with the largest luggage capacity on the market). I resorted to fixing it to my car roof with Sea Sucker cups and keeping the bike in my station wagon’s boot/trunk when we drove to a trailhead. That kept the passenger seats up, meaning I could also drive the kids to the trailhead in their car seats. The removable trailer arm does help, but with the length for 2 kids, you’ll need roof racks, a pickup or a good bike rack.