How many watts do you think a 8 and 6 year old can produce.

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[Jimod]

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The 6 year old will produce about 25 watts as he'll want to help you. The 8 year old is a bit more mature. He'll produce nothing, he'll sit there letting you and the younger more nieve brother do the work, smiling quietly to himself.

 

[Alan Quay]

They might just cancel their own weight going up hill. Might.

When I'm towing my 7 year old on his bike I take great delight in getting him peddaling, while I'm coasting on throttle only. To the genaral public it looks like a small boy powering an 18 stone man up a hill.

Sometimes I shout things like 'Faster, faster or I'll put you back up for adoption!'

 

[Benjahmin]

Sometimes I shout things like 'Faster, faster or I'll put you back up for adoption!'

Now that's my style of parenting

 

[flecc]

Don't underestimate what your 6 and 8 year old can do. On one occasion a group of mixed age kids on bikes chose to try to race me on a slight incline. On my e-bike towing a trailer I was running at exactly 15 mph when the smallest kid of around 8 years old on a tiny wheeled bike very gradually eased past me. With grim-faced determination, his legs were whirling at an impossible rate on that low geared bike but he was clearly still able to input at least 200 watts to do that and probably more, beating all the older kids with him.

It was a council estate I was riding through on my way to the council tip, so maybe they rear tougher kids there.
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[rdgoforth]

The 8 year old is actually my daughter and the six year old is my son. There both tiny for their age though and only weigh 20 and 15 kg. So we are roughly around 140kg all up with my lardy arse as well. I've been after one of these tandem tagalongs for a while and managed to find this one on ebay for a resonable amount locally. I picked it up on Saturday and had a quick blast round the block with the kids. The oxygen MTB coped with all three of us with no problem at all. It just needs some TLC now to remove a bit of rust and replace gear shifter and gear cable.