Between our trip, our blog, and general day to day riding around our neck of the woods, we always get asked if we've thought about selling our seat setup or if they can buy something like it. Frankly we hadn't, since the business aspect of it sounds horrible. But of late we've been giving it more thought as we love working with our hands, love facilitating folks getting out on their bikes, and generally feel for folks that want something like this but aren't in a place to make it themselves.
Consequently, we sat down and ran some numbers on parts and labor that would go into producing these seats and making it worth our while to do so. At this point we're thinking for a double seat setup like we presently use with some design improvements and better finish, would come in somewhere around $350. This would include the wooden seat structure, pads, harnesses and mounting hardware but would not include the sunshades which can be purchased easily by the end user as they are an accessory for Deuter kid comfort packs, but does .
We're trying to gauge serious interest from casual interest, so if this is something you would buy if we would make, please email us so we can make that call.
Edit:
A thought that came up is regarding materials and cost.
This price is with utilizing very high quality (read: expensive) marine plywood. What this really buys you is being able to leave this thing parked outside year round without too much concern for the wood delaminating.
Now I personally don't leave ours parked outside except when on errands and we throw our rain cover on if the weather looks bad.
Honestly between the urethane coating used and decent treatment of the seat setup its probably not all that necessary, the benefit of using a standard high quality veneered plywood would be that it would bring the cost down by around 30-40 dollars.
If this of interest to folks let me know.
