No, the bracket comes with the seat. You may want to buy an additional bracket if you want to quickly move the seat between two bikes

Hello, one fixing bracket comes with the seat, but we bought an extra so that both my husband's bike and mine have the bracket and can carry the Siesta. It's such a great system, we love ours!

It comes with one fixing bracket.

A fixing bracket was supplied with my order.

I ordered a second for the second bike.

looks like it would. It says up to 22kg. MY kid is about 18kg and is becoming difficult to have this weight on the back of the bike

I would say yes

probably but need to consider the clearance of the front draillure cable from the down tube, the bracket will need to be fitted underneath the cable and might need a couple of mm clearance to avoid interference - if you dont intend on changing upp and down on the front rings it doesnt matter. The seat does destabilise the bike especially when kids are active in the back - would think twice before using something like this in a road bike even with a shorter wheel base than the urban hybrid that I use it with

This has attached successfully to two road bikes that we have with out any issues.

When checking the documentation i saw that there are a further 4 or 5 different supports that can be ordered to fit unusual frames (or the presence of panniers).

I don't know how much additional that would add to the cost though.

The bracket will normally fit around the cable guide on the down tube and underneath the cable but the position of the cable guide and the length of the down tube seem a bit awkward i.e you might have to mount the bracket below the cable guide but then not have enough clearance between the seat and the rear wheel

Yes this could be a problem if the cable is exposed (ie. not in a cable sleeve) as the bracket will pinch it.

its says not to attach to carbon frames. It also says not to seat posts but this might work however the child would be pretty high.

The instructions for this seat so that it shouldn't be fitted to carbon fibre frame bikes or bikes with rear suspension. That goes for all child seats I expect. We bought a cheap rigid run-around hybrid for ours as both my MTB and road bike were unsuitable for the above reasons

the brakes should not affect the baby seat fitting.
It clamps around the seat tube part of the frame
the only thing that may affect fitting is frame size and I suspect many full suspension frames will not accept this type of fitting

Hi, ive the same bike and it fits fine.
I got the siesta one. It's a great produc.

On a side note, I find the specialised rock hopper front suspension to be very disappointing. What a let down the bike is. A joke of a suspension.

Anyway enjoy the kid seat. It's def the number 1 kids seat to get. Nothing matches it.

Yes the bracket does pinch the cable if it is exposed (ie. not in a cable sleeve)

Should be no issues provided there's no rear suspension or brake/gear cabling on the down post.

The product documentation advised against fitting this on a full suspension bike or any carbon fibre bike.

I've fitted mine to my wife's hard tail instead of my full susser and we just swap bikes on family rides.

tbh I think that much weight that far back over the back wheel would trash your shock and the seat would quite easily hit the back wheel when the shock gets compressed so I'd advise against (as per the product guidelines)

I would not put a hamax on a full suspension bike