Best Buggy?

[Matlow]

I am due to have my second child in february (my son will be 3 and 1/2). Have a Maclaran techno xt and Maclaran Volo for travel. Not very exited about them and would like a new buggy for my daughter....ahhh love saying that!) which can be used from newborne, will accomodate a buggy board, is easily manouvered and really cool to look at. It won't be used on public transport much and I have a big boot. Money is not particularly an issue. I am thinking about the bugaboo but there are so many around I don't want to be a sheep unless they really are the best. People have mentioned mountain buggies and quinny, microlite and phi and teds as possibles. Which is genuinely the most stylish and efficient buggy?

mine was 2nd hand, lightly used, but no carrycot or extras. still it was delivered quickly, and is in excellant condition.

there was one i hoovered to long over, which was BIN £150 and they said they would deliver free. it had gone when i went to click.

I've just bought a Maxicosi Dreami carry cot and Maxicosi citi chassis and buggy and Maxicosi cabrio car seat. Has anyone used this travel system?

not heard of it lucy, you got a link?

i love everything about my jane nomad apart from the fact that once dd was out of the carrycot (at 5months-ish) it is forward-facing.nothing to do with dd's language development, everything to do with me wanting to talk rubbish to the baby without looking like too much of a loon. if you do it over the back of the handlebar, with the baby blithely ignoring you, people do stare i find.

and you cant pull silly faces at them over the hood

Might be a Spanish thing, will have a look. I also think it is last season.

page19 sorry couldn't find anything better.

well, you can, misdee, but at just 10mths dd now knows that it's funnier to ignore me and have me suffer the embarrassment of going '1...2...3... i can see you...' and sticking my head over the top to find her studiedly looking elsewhere. perhaps her language may be iffy in the future but her sense of humour is highly developed.

seriously, though, i think the nomad is an excellent buggy. (and there are SO MANY 'boos on the streets where i live i couldn't really face one).

Aitch: buy a bicycle mirror and mount it to one of the side support struts and then give your baby the evil eye.

(Oh, good reasons btw misdee).

We have a Buzz and have seen MaxiCozis that look very similar. Think they are made by the same people.

The replacement innertubes though are £10!...EACH! FLAMING NORA. Have sciatica that has been aggravated though by pushing buggy for 2 weeks it has taken Mothercare to order me the replacement innertubes for my Buzz. Love the Buzz for steering, and pushing up and down hills, but is heavy and doesn't fold down very small.

my buzz wont be folded or lifted, my back cant handle the strain, i had to sell the kiwi explorer and get a pliko with footboard for LVAD carrying.

hhhmmm, like that evil plan, hub. although it might detract from teh streamlined gorgeousness of teh nomad.

Think you're getting the Nomad confused with the Mountain Buggy, aitch.

it is more than faintly ridiculous that grown men and women can feel so proprietorial over a blimmin buggy, isn't it? (pppsssssssssst, get the nomad, matlow).

Absolutely ridiculous.

I mean, a 'Nomad' ?

It's like asking a baby to eat proper food or something !

it is a dumb name, isn't it? "buy this buggy, it's the very dab for trekking across the desert. now with handlebar attachments for tethering domestic livestock."

what about the Phil & Ted's Tuareg, though...?

HAH! bet you doubted yourself for a teensy minute! bet you did!

Get this one

Maxi Cosi and Quinny are one and the same, if that helps !

Stokke Xplory is fab - I've had it just over a year and am very happy with it. Think rear-facing is much nicer - dd and I chat all the time when out and at 19mths she has a vocabulary of over 200 words (can't say whether this had anything to do with her being in a rear-facing buggy though!)