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Buggy Boards and Three Wheel Buggies

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cls · 14/07/2004 20:30

Help! DD starts at school in August and so I will be doing a 2.5 hour walk to school/playgroup. I am looking for an "easy" method of transporting my 3yr son and 8month baby. Any ideas? I have been told that a good solution is a three wheel buggy and buggy board as the handles go quite far back and you are not always tripping over the board. I already have a McLaren Buggy and buggy board but I find it very difficult to push as I keep walking into the board so end up walking with my bottom sticking far out (not very glamerous) and end up with back ache. None of the 3 wheel Buggies in John Lewis or Mothercare fit a buggy board. Can anyone give me any advice?

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clary · 14/07/2004 23:12

cls really a 2.5hr walk!!! very impressed. We have a 3-wheeler that takes a buggyboard, tho we had to buy a new buggyboard, it's been redesigned to take wider wheelbases, our old one fits a maclaren but not much else. Our 3-wheeler is an Instep Nipper, very light and foldable, always much admired. I went to a garden fete the other week and saw three double versions of it! Blimey, as the single was £200+ so not cheap. I never had a prob pushing the maclaren + board (we had to replace it as it broke!, not really its fault) and am fien with the 3-wheeler but don't know if it's different enough to solve yr problem. DH finds it easier to push buggy + board with one hand (he's quite tall) and it's light so I guess this is not too hard. Maybe you need to try one out? We bought our Instep at a fab shop near us that specialises in buggies, car seats etc and very good advice too, but that's no use if you're not in the east Mids!

clairabelle · 15/07/2004 00:28

I've got a 45min walk to and from pre school with a 4yr old and 8 month old and I've got a Quinny and a buggy board, absolutely brilliant!

suzywong · 15/07/2004 00:32

don't do it with a maclaren

I have similar age kids and I walk a lot I use a little nipper from these guys free delivery
and a buggy board

it really is a great combination

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cls · 15/07/2004 13:31

Susiwong. Have looked at the website. Thanks for the link. Can you fit a normal buggy board on it or did you need an adapter.

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suzywong · 15/07/2004 14:20

no the normal kiddyboard goes straight on the bar of the buggy. It's dead easy.

BTW I am just showing off now with these links

evian · 15/07/2004 15:27

why doesn't the kiddyboard -fit on the mothercare three wheelers??

florenceuk · 15/07/2004 15:45

You can fit a Kiddyboard to a Mountain buggy as well as per website:

All Mountain Buggy® models (from 2003) are compatible with KiddyBoard™, by Lascal. A second child (from 24mths) can thus be transported behind the stroller, standing on the board. The KiddyBoard™ is easily attached and removed. This is the safest and only recommended option for transporting an additional child on a Mountain Buggy®.

suzywong · 15/07/2004 18:30

conspiracy on the part of mothercare, evian

hello Florence UK

florenceuk · 15/07/2004 19:51

Hi Suzy - you must be off soon? Are you all organised and ready to go?

suzywong · 15/07/2004 19:57

Hi there

yes we leave London three weeks today then leave the counry 12 days later.

I am doing a lot of toy and clothes culling and thinking about packing boxes, but mainly going out a lot for farewell drinks, It's a shock to the system after 3 years of being a nocturnal maternal recluse.

florenceuk · 15/07/2004 20:13

Yes it's a shock to the system going out. Have finally found reliable babysitter, and so have taken opportunity to actually go out a bit more recently. The only problem is that we get home at midnight, DS wakes up at 6am, and DH is hungover from "having" to drink enough to make up for for my non-consumption, means I get up and suffer - still probably worth it, just.

Good luck with packing, shifting, and flight - I guess you will be posting from sunny Perth in less than a month!

dinny · 15/07/2004 20:49

I've just ordered a Universal Buggy Board (made by Lascal, bought from Kiddiecare.com) - I checked with the UK distributor that it would be fit my Mothercare Urban Detour Arctic. They said it looked like it would and the way to tell is fully recline the seat (as it's for a newborn) and see if there'd be room for my toddler to stand within the U-shaped handle on the board. Which there is (we used her step from the bathroom as pretend buggyboard). So I'm hoping it fits!

suzywong · 15/07/2004 23:46

OH yes, forgot to ask you how the PG is going? When are you due?

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