Stroller Drama

[pocket1_pita]

It’s time to get a stroller and I am confused. I’d been all excited about the Baby Jogger City Mini (BJCM) because of the one-hand fold. Now I am reconsidering. Here’s our deal – Pita and I both run but we probably wouldn’t take Lilah running since that’s each of our special time with Ari. We go to several parks with gravel trails regularly and we go hiking pretty regularly too. We also only have 1 car so the stroller has to be public transportation compatible. I’m not interested in any stroller that needs to be deconstructed for folding. I don’t want a stroller to cost more than $400 (even that seems excessive, but we got some gifts from friends specifically for a stroller) but if you have a great recommendation talk to me about it.

I’m thinking about the BOB Revolution, the Baby Jogger City Elite or another one of their strollers and maybe the Valco Trimode although that breaks the bank a bit. Or is this silly and I do want an urban stroller like the BJCM?

Comments

[irish74.livejournal.com]

We have two Maclarens, the Techno XLR (the big one) and the Volo (the light one). Love both of them. We also had a Bob SUV but it was simply way to big for city living and we don't have a big car to load it into to take somewhere that it could really be put to use, so we sold it on craigslist.

As for BART and MUNI, the elevators are frequently broken so I either expect to walk to the next station for a working elevator or use the Ergo (of course my 1 year old is still not quite 17 lbs). A few weeks ago I walked from Powell to Embarcadero since I had the Techno with a full basket plus the baby and both Powell and Montgomery had broken elevators.

I did however recently admire a friend's BJCM and if I was doing it all over again, I'd look at it seriously.