Stroller and accessories reviews

Thule Urban Glide 2 (TUG2 from here on) was with us for the first half of the summer, I am just now getting around to putting together bits and pieces of little reviews I've done on it. Before TUG2 I used Mountain Buggy Swift (which is rather a lightweight stroller than a all-terrain stroller), so clearly I was very exited to get TUG2. Image from https://www.thule.com TUG 2 is available in four colors: dawn grey, red, blue and black-on-black. I thought dawn grey would be perfect for us because it wasn't too dark for the summer and gender neutral. Some technical data: Front wheel: 12 inches (swivel, lockable) Back wheels: 16 inches Carrying capacity: 34 kg (fits a child up to 111 cm of height) Carrying capacity of the shopping basket: 4.5 kg (+1.4 to the seat back pockets, 0.5 kg to the inside pockets of the seat) Footprint: 105 x 69 cm Folded dimensions: 87 x 69 x 34 (wheels are easy to remove, then the width is less) Weight: 11.4 kg TUG2 has a really inn...

Mountain Buggy   is not a new stroller brand for me. Last winter in Tallinn, I used Mountain Buggy Swift, quite successfully. I hope to get around to doing a small review on that too soon. Anyways, today I had a good opportunity to compare side by side Mountain Buggy Urban Jungle (UJ from here on) and Bumbleride Indie (Indie from here on). Both are three-wheelers, sporty, not not quite meant for running or rollerblading because they don't have the appropriate hand-break. They are mainly built for forward-facing use. UJ has the possibility of converting the carrycot into a parent facing seat (up to 15 kg), but in my opinion the solution isn't ideal due to very open seat and short canopy. But overall this review is from the viewpoint of using it with a toddler. I did a review on Bumbleride Indie before, you can read it here . Some technical data on UJ: Carrying capacity 25 kg (officially only 9 kg is allowed in full recline, though in my experience nothing has happened...

Silver Cross Jet is a new lightweight stroller. It not only fits into the hand luggage cathegory on most airlines, it is is actually even smaller than that thanks to it's 3D-fold system. It is only 55 x 30 x 18 cm in size when folded. Technical data: Seat width: about 27 cm Seat back height 42 cm, but there is a lot of room under the canopy - up to 70 cm, 60 cm comfortably Seat depth: 19 cm Calf support lenght: 14 cm, from the edge up to the footrest 20 cm The back wheels are 15.5 cm and front 13.5 cm in diameter Folded dimensions: 55 x 30 x 18 (pictures below) Open dimensions: height 96 cm, width 45 cm Weight: 5.9 kg EU carrying capacity: 15 kg Carrying capacity of the shopping basket: 1 kg You can use it from birth in full recline mode and you can adjust the calf support. The seat recline can be controlled by a rope system. The bumper bar is included and is one of the best I know, easy to open with one hand, it opens as a gate. The stroller has some leathery deta...

I waited quite a while that some new interesting stroller came along that was really something exiting. There a couple more on the horizon right now ( Micralite !), but the first to arrive was Thule Sleek. I have been following its arrival since the first sneak-peeks and was very eager to try it. I've had positive experiences with Thule before ( Thule Urban Glide 2 , I've been meaning to getting around to post about it as well). What I am really happy about is that Thule understands that strollers are used by a little bit older kids as well. My 2 year old does not use the stroller on a daily basis anymore (daycare + sometimes with bad weather she sleeps indoors), but because she isn't much of a hold-hand type and runs off a lot, strollers are still essential to us.  Believe it or not, this was the first time I tried a stroller with an ergonomic seat. Plus it had been a while since I tried using a stroller with parent-facing seat. I was curious to see what my daught...

My love for stroller began about a year and half ago, when I found myself thinking, while taking my 7 month old daughter to a stroll for her nap, that perhaps the reason for not loving those walks as much as I should, was the stroller. I found it hard to push, the canopy was not long enough and I felt it limited where I could go. I had bought, about a year before, Mutsy Igo (2016). And don´t get me wrong, it is a perfectly ok stroller, but just not for my needs. The reason I had bought it, was that it was the most different I could find from the classical Emmaljunga that is almost repulsively popular in Estonia. Mutsy Igo was minimalistic, seemed to be compact and light. Boy, had I little information. This post is not meant as a negative review about Mutsy Igo, but rather to praise the stroller that I found after it. I found Bumbleride Indie. I found it after months of searching through all the sporty and all-terrain strollers I knew and ordered it off the internet like a pig in a bag ...