Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Product review: Bugaboo Gecko
Bugaboo Gecko in the studio...
The Gecko made us both happy. My wife wanted a stable pram that could be steered easily and had wheels that run smoothly. Call me a stereotypical man, but I wanted a simple, efficient ergonomic design. We went to a very large shopping center where they only sell baby stuff. We could choose between ±50 different prams. I don't remember the names of all the prams we tried, but I can remember 2 of the 3 different models we had to choose from at the end of our elimination.
The choice was between the Gecko Bugaboo and the Xplory of Stokke. We already knew Stokke as the maker of ergonomic, upscale furniture. We have one rocking chair in our living room. My wife needs ergonomic furniture, so we bought one rocking chair, although they are very pricy. As you may have guessed, the Stokke was the more expensive of the 2. Another drawback was the fact that you couldn't put a Maxi-Cosi in a Xplory. That's not handy when travelling with a car. You have to travel as light-weight as possible. Light-weight travelling should be a rule of thumb for every product anyway.
But the Stokke had some advantages over the Gecko:
- It looks better (design)
- The sitting area in the Xplory is high. That way the baby doesn't see everything on heel level. Because of that, you could also sit on a table, without having to transfer the baby from the Xplory to a baby chair. You just park it in front of the table.
- It had a small, but very easily accessible bag.
Can we say something negative about the Bugaboo? Of course. Nothing is perfect:
- The two buttons to change the position of the handle are not cooperative. that's the only thing that's just not good at all.
- My wife wanted to have a matching bag that could be hung on the Gecko. A girlfriend of us could buy one of those, but apparantly gets misused a lot of time, making the pram tilt and fall. Because of that you cannot buy bags anymore.
- You can hang a bag under the bed between the wheels, but it's hard to reach. if want to put a lot of stuff in it, you have to take the bed of first, before you can reach the bag in an efficient way.
...and in the wild
The Xplory of Stokke
Labels: bugaboo, pram, product reviews
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