Revolution SE Duallie

I bought a used BOB revolution SE off of marketplace for like $150. Bought an adapter for my Chicco bucket seat. Best set up ever. I don’t run. But I live in a very small town in the middle of nowhere Saskatchewan. We don’t have sidewalks. Half the town is gravel. We get a lot of snow. It’s a beast!

Bought a used bob revolution se off of marketplace. It’s got a weight limit of 65 lbs. That being said, my 2.5 yo doesn’t care to ride in the stroller anymore and prefers to ride his bike or walk. So you might not need something long term.

I also second Bob! I got a second hand one for very decently priced. Granted, my little one was 18 months already. But you can get attachments for them for most bucket seats which then makes it parent facing. I don’t live on a farm but my parents do and it works great. It also handles the lack of sidewalks and crossing train tracks like a breeze.

Marketplace 👌 I got a used Bob stroller for $200. It’s perfect!

I bought a used Bob stroller after I was tired of the Chicco stroller we bought with the car seat. It wasn’t great anyways. We got it when my first was around 18 months and I loooooove that stroller. Expecting my second right away and bought a Bob Chicco adapter off Amazon and it all works great. Def recommend that route.

I live in a small town with 350 people in the middle of nowhere. We don’t have sidewalks. Half the town is gravel road. My parents live on a farm. We started with the Chicco bravo that came with his bucket seat and it was just ok. It had the four plastic wheels. They were loud. But it folded up pretty small. I got a used bob stroller with three big wheels that are air filled and it’s soooo much nicer for the snow and gravel. I’ll get the Chicco adapters for it for the bucket seat for this next baby. So I guess what you’re looking for is big wheels and air filled. Good luck!

BOBs aren’t compact at all but they are workhorses. I have a secondhand 2014 model and it still works great. Can handle grass and gravel easily. 

I had a baby a month after my son turned 3. I decided to get a single stroller that I could use by clicking the infant car seat into OR my 3 year old would ride in while baby wearing. Now my baby is old enough to ride in the stroller sitting up without the car seat and my 3 year old just walks. Or I still baby wear and 3 yo just walks.  I briefly had a single to double city select when I had my first two as toddler and preschooler. It was heavy and harder to navigate for me and didn’t work well for neighborhood walks because our neighborhood was super hilly. I switched to a double BOB that I much prefer for walks or any big outings.

I started running again about 3-4 months PP with my oldest and have since done 3 races with her (she’s 15 months now) - we have an older style BOB I got off marketplace for $40, as I didn’t want to go all in at first until I knew if I would use it often. I kept running through my current pregnancy until about 32 weeks (I’m 37 now!) and my final run was with her in the BOB. We got a double this pregnancy so I can keep it going with both of them once I feel healed enough to run again!

We have the Bob double for neighborhood walks and running but it’s too hard to get in and out of car. And we have a graco double that has one seat in front of the others. It’s worked great except our younger child just kicks the older one in front. We are going to be 3 under 3 and considering the wonderfold when the youngest gets a bit bigger.

It's going to depend so much on how and where you plan to use the stroller, and whether you want something that can eventually be used for a second baby. I don't drive and we knew we wanted 2 kids, so I needed strollers that really worked well and had okay storage capacity. I went through a few different strollers to accommodate different activities and different life stages. All of them were used in conjunction with babywearing because sometimes in the city a stroller just doesn't work at all. I got a City Select first because I wanted something I could convert when we had a second, and the versatility was nice, but all the front to back strollers are so unwieldy to push. Having a tiny baby facing me (preferably not in a car seat) was important to me, and it was a good choice for that, but once both kids were bigger I sold it. I also had a not-quite-umbrella stroller, the Zoe that isn't the super tiny travel size, for those days I wanted to keep it light and only needed it for one kid, but they're really only well suited to smooth floors, like museums, so I only used it if I really needed something small and easy to fold. My second set of strollers, once I knew we weren't gonna have anymore newborns, were a City Mini GT and a Mountain Buggy Duet. The GT is a really solid choice as long as your kid is old enough that you feel comfortable not having eyes on them at all times. Sturdy, handles well, basket is not amazing but it's good enough, folds quickly, and they're popular enough that it's easy to find one used - I think mine was $20 on craigslist and all I had to do was stuff a little piece of cardboard into a spot where the front wheel liked to stick. The Mountain Buggy Duet is relatively unknown but my absolute favorite for when I needed both kids in a stroller. Rugged as hell, smooth to push even with one hand, amazingly shockingly astoundingly narrow for a side by side - I think there's less than an inch difference between it and the City Select single. You can fit this thing on a CTA bus without folding it or blocking the aisle (I did avoid crowded buses with strollers but I surprised a lot of people when they saw it squeeze in). You can take one seat off and attach a shopping basket if you've got one in preschool all day and the other at home with you running errands then put the second seat back in for a weekend zoo trip. It was a pain to fold but I rarely needed to fold it. It's not the best stroller for big kids since it's so narrow, but my oldest was a shrimpy toddler. God, I miss that stroller. If I knew then what I know now I probably would have gotten it and just used it with the basket when my first was born. I also borrowed a Bob double to get the kids to and from school when we were avoiding the bus during covid and it snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed one winter. It did well in the snow but it's so so big, I couldn't even get it in my garage without folding it. If you plan to do a lot of trail walking off road kinds of stuff, a single Bob would be a great choice once baby is big enough, but I wouldn't bother for just city walking.