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Mountain Buggy Freerider

The Mountain Buggy Freerider is a stroller board which attaches to the rear of a number of pushchairs. However the Freerider also cleverly converts into a scooter for a child to play or ride with, away from the pushchair.

The Freerider comes complete with one connector which is compatible with the Mountain Buggy Swift, Urban Jungle, Terrain, +one, Duet and Duo models. It is possible then to buy a Connector 2 to connect the Freerider to your Phil & Teds Explorer or Bugaboo Cameleon; or a Connector 3 to connect to your Baby Jogger City Mini.

There is an attachment that fits onto the pushchair using an allen key (this took is a while to do!). The scooter part then fixes into the slots on top of the attachment. We found that the connectors would attach easily onto one side, but not always the other. This was a little frustrating when you were ready to leave but the scooter wouldn’t fix firm. We had no problems removing the scooter using the red release buttons and pulling.

There are two wheels at front of the Freerider which are off the ground when in stroller board mode. There is a single wheel underneath the Freerider at the rear. This ingeniously swivels round to two different heights – one for stroller board mode, and one for scooter mode.

The Freerider itself has a large non slip platform. Just a word of warning, the top of the board is so non slip, that it is abrasive and rubbed a hole in one of my tops as I carried it!!! I was not impressed!

The handle of the Freerider is easy to detach and when not in use, the Freerider can be pulled up out of the way and can be held with the included toggle. The handle just slides down in line with the board and can be easily reattached when required.

Our 3 year old was a whizz on her micro-scooter. She had been whizzing around on one for almost a year and loved scooting. So when we bought the Mountain Buggy +One, we thought that adding a Freerider would first of all help her make the transition from pushchair to walking / scooting, and secondly would then leave the space in the rear of the Mountain Buggy +One for our grocery shopping.

However sadly the Freerider didn’t work out as planned. The Freerider, being also a stroller board, is considerably bigger and heavier than a micro-scooter. There is no steering as such on the Freerider, but we originally thought there was some steering in a similar way to the micro-scooter, but in reality our 3 year old had zero steering on the Freerider and after several hairy moments where she was heading off the pavement towards the road, Mr BB came back home and told me to sell it! He didn’t feel she was safe at all on it, and didn’t have the ability to manoeuvre the Freerider as she could her Micro Scooter.

As a stroller board the Freerider worked no better. It was easy for our daughter to wobble the Freerider from side to side which became annoying to the adults. She could stand underneath the handlebar, but did not look comfortable. It was easier to put the handlebar into the highest position and for her to then hold on at the side. I found that even with the Freerider at the side (and I push one handed, so she was in the correct place for me), I was still walking in an unnatural position.

All round, the Freerider didn’t work either as a stroller board, or as a scooter. It was disappointing. However we discovered a great scooter hook, and the easy to use micro-scooter hangs quite happily off the rear of the +One when not in use ready for our daughter to scoot home afterwards, and for £9 its cheaper to swap on to different pushchairs than buying the various Freerider connectors for our different brands of pushchair!

The Freerider costs £79 with the additional connectors being around £19 each, so it is not a cheap option. The concept is brilliant, but sadly it did not work out for us.

*Note* Just to add we didn’t usually use the Freerider in the snow! We just happened to need to take photos on this particular day!

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