Pump up tyres on prams

RaiderHammer

Hi all, looking for a pram and need some advice please. Pump up tyres... OK or avoid?

Do you get punctures with them? If so often? What happens if you are out and get a puncture? Are they easy to repair?

I heard you can get some stuff to put into the tyre to stop punctures. Anyone tried this please and does it actually work?

So many questions. Thanks.

shelley_crow

Hi,

I had a Quinny Buzz. I had it for around 6 months with no problems, then had 3 punctures at very inconvenient times!

I got rid of it in the end in favour of a pushchair with solid wheels. The tyre stuff you can get is called Tyre Slime.

Gillyx

I don't have air tyres on my pram, as we live in the city and would never go off road so we didn't see the need for them, but Tyre Slime is the stuff you want x

cakeforbrains

Had my Quinny Buzz for two years. It's third hand or so but we bought new tyres when we got it. I think we've had one puncture in that time. I really like having big bouncy wheels.

pollyanna24

I had a Quinny Buzz for my two and it was always getting punctures. So I wouldn't recommend. We figured out it was mainly near my older daughter's school as they have a prickly bush all the way along the road, but still...

Just have a simple stroller now for my two year old.

dizziblonde

Always viewed them as something I didn't want - until I bought a buggy with them, and now I wouldn't be without them. I've had tyres slimed (easy enough DIY job but I got a local bike shop to do them for a fiver a wheel as my motivation for mucking about with tyres has long since gone) and not had any punctures yet... but I just find the ease of pushing (bearing in mind I have a double though with a 17lb baby and a 26lb baby in it) and the smoothness of it makes it well worth having them. I do the odd spot of dog walking with the buggy, plus lots of walking on our local diabolically awful pavements (which are about bad enough to constitute "off road" in places).

I hate pushing my solid-wheeled stroller type buggy in comparison.

Alternative is possibly something like the baby jogger city mini GT which has the "forever air" type?

IHateDida

shelley_crow wrote: »

Hi,

I had a Quinny Buzz. I had it for around 6 months with no problems, then had 3 punctures at very inconvenient times!

I got rid of it in the end in favour of a pushchair with solid wheels. The tyre stuff you can get is called Tyre Slime.

I have the Obaby Zezu and I love the pump up tyres - great over grass! I have added Slime and no pressure loss so far or punctures! I would go for pump up tyres again next time having seen others that struggle when on grass with normal wheels.

dizziblonde

IHateDida wrote: »

I have the Obaby Zezu and I love the pump up tyres - great over grass! I have added Slime and no pressure loss so far or punctures! I would go for pump up tyres again next time having seen others that struggle when on grass with normal wheels.

Oh god stroller-type wheels and grass are awful. Granted I have a particularly painful pelvis at the moment (my SPD has never fully cleared up and I'm in the middle of a really painful flare up of it) but we went to the park with the dogs and kids yesterday and had the little double stroller type buggy that fits in the car along with two large dogs and two kids (our nice big nipper doesn't when we need the boot for the dogs) - it was a nightmare to push over a flat grassed area - was really really hurting my pelvis trying to do it.

*Nutella*

We used a Mothercare Xtreme with pump up tyres until we switched to a Maclaren stroller when LO was 11-ish months old. The main reason for changing it was that I wanted something smaller and lighter for planes and buses. Had two punctures on London pavements; one was due to a pin, the other I'm not quite sure. You can keep using a buggy with a punctured tyre until you get to where you're going, but it's a bit harder to push. Bike shops can repair them quickly and easily. The big advantage of pump up tyres is how smoothly they run - now that I have a stroller I really notice every little bump and stone, although LO doesn't seem to mind.