to chain up my pushchair???

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Some of the baby groups I go to require prams to be left where you can't keep an eye on it - downstairs, outside or whatever. One particular group (at a children's centre) requires them to be left in a non-enclosed yard bit.

My travel system cost £500 - and would be vv difficult for me to afford to replace. If it was a bike I'd no way just leave it on display unattended in some of these places. I know /(hope??) prams are different, and maybe they don't get stolen. But if anything did happen I'd feel terrible and perhaps that I'd been reckless.

So AIBU to get a bicycle chain for it. I don't see others with them but it would put my mind at rest. Plus has anyone had their pushchair nicked- ever??

My doctors surgery specifically states that no buggies are to be brought in and must all 'be chained up outside using a bike chain or similar lock to avoid theft'...
Bugger that for a game of soldiers. I have a Stokke Xplory V3 with all the trimmings and defiantly push it into the surgery and park it in an unused storage area :D So far only one receptionist challenged me until she saw the buggy and said 'Oh. Yeah, you dont want to leave that outside. It'd be gone before you even check in.'... Fantastic.

yanbu. even cheap ones are a big chunk of some peoples budget.

as for the drs, well, they would change their mind is ds was rampaging round the waiting room.

what about in a place which is secure, roofed and no pushchair has ever been stolen from?

would you ask them to provide locks?

I had a huge very expensive buggy and I often used to take the wheel of and take it in with me to groups. People though I was a bit odd but who cares no one stole my buggy.

This was more though if it was nicked I would have had no way of getting three toddlers home.

FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS on a pushchair???

Wow, just WOW, is all I can say.

Oh, and YANBU. If I'd spent £500 on something, I'd definitely want it secured.

YANBU the swimming pool in the largest town to me tells you to just that and provides an area with a strong bar round the wall.

YANBU. I chain mine up. OP, if you have a travel system with a detachable seat / carry cot / car seat, remember to chain the detachable part(s) to the chassis. BTW there has a been a spate of bugaboos going missing from people's boots not far from us (interesting no one's lost a maclaren). These expensive buggies are very covetable so I don't blame you.

Yanbu. I've always had a bike lock on mine. Used to padlock it to the radiator in the hall at baby clinic.

My friend had a bugaboo stolen from outside baby group, the health visitor warns to chain up the expensive prams. sad but true

Yanbu. This secnario used to make me drive 1/2 a mile to the library and carry DD in rather than risk leaving the pram

Your solution is rather more environmentally friendly!

Nosy question: what brand is your £500 buggy and do you love it? Researching the next one!

YANBU

I had my silver cross buggy nicked from outside my house.

I could not believe it. All buggies are now kept inside and folded up.

I wish I had chained mine up.

I have an icandy cherry. I recommend it, I used the pram attachment as a Moses basket.

Mamalazarou I'm glad I was not the only one who was at £500 or £700 for a push chair.

Did I permanently damage my DD by making her ride in a £150 one?

people usually leave things they dont want/need outside their house, i left my much loved and used powetwin outside (used for 3 kids and already bought second hand) along with carseat and rain cover when i no longer needed it.

When we went to Centre Parcs, the bike shed people gave us an extra lock for the buggy and it's lived in the basket ever since.

I lock it up whenever I can't see it.

YANBU

yanbu

When your baby becomes a toddler you can chain them to lamposts with it too

YANBU my pram cost me in total £1,000. I don't want that stolen. My friend told me about a lock you can buy for prams. Lock it up!

i had my twins buggy nicked from outside our top floor flat,some twat had left the door open downstairs they did throw out my older kids painting that were underneath,cheers for that,lucky we had another buggy but that turned out to be faulty and had to go back.

YANBU I always did this with pushchairs/prams, and DS now has a special needs pushchair from wheelchair services which I also lock up, with a bike lock. Lock it up at swimming places, at the park so I'm not lugging it between swings and slides, at theme parks when we're on the rides, outside of tiny shops, etc etc.

The library in my town centre has a buggy area and they provide locks if you ask, not seen it anywhere else but a good idea I thought!

Thanks for all the replies. I'm going to buy the lock asap.

I'm just so relieved that no ones nicked it so far given all the stories of stolen prams people have.

I'd left it at theme parks while we went on rides a few times in the past (legoland etc have loads of buggys left sometimes for very long times as people queue) - next time we go I will chain it up.

BTW it's a bugaboo bee - I said £500 as couldn't remember the exact amount but now I think about it probably a bit more with the footmuff, sunshade, raincover etc.