Thule

Running, riding and long walks are usually the first things to go when a baby arrives, and they don't have to be. Thule comes at parenting from the outdoor side, building gear for families who intend to keep doing the things they did before, with a small passenger now along for it.

Eighty Years of Carrying Things Properly

Thule is Swedish, and most people meet the brand long before they have children, usually as the roof box or bike rack on someone's car. That background matters more than it sounds. Decades of designing mounting systems that hold expensive gear to a moving vehicle at highway speed is unusual preparation for making a pram, and it shows in how Thule products attach, adjust and hold. This is a brand that thinks about brackets, clamps and load paths as a first principle rather than an afterthought, which is exactly what you want when the load is your child.

Gear That Changes Jobs When You Do

The Chariot is the clearest example of how Thule thinks. It tows behind a bike, then swaps to a jogging kit and becomes a running pram, then rolls as a walking stroller, all from one unit. Add the infant sling or the baby supporter and it carries a younger passenger too. Very little else in this shop does three genuinely different jobs to that standard. The same logic runs through the prams, where the Urban Glide 3 takes a bassinet, a car seat adapter, a bumper bar and a mesh cover, so one frame handles a newborn in winter and a toddler in summer without you buying a second one.

Pick the Thule for How You Actually Move

• If you run: the Urban Glide 3 and Glide 3 sit at the serious end ofrunning and jogging prams, with a fixed front wheel option and a hand brake for hills.

• If you ride: the Yepp range covers front and rear mountbike seats, and the Chariot sits with thewagons and chariots for towing behind.

• If you walk further than the shops: the Sapling is a framed hikingcarrier that puts a toddler on your back for a proper bushwalk.

• If it's mostly footpaths: the Spring 2 is the lighter, city-mindedpram, and the Urban Glide 3 Double covers two children on one frame.

• If you're flying: the paddedpram travel bags are made for the gate-check gauntlet.

Shop Thule 

Browse the Thule range online, including the bassinets, adapters, rain covers, footmuffs and jogging kits that turn one frame into several. 

Order and we'll get it out to you. If you're fitting a bike seat, bring the bike or its details toAlexandria orMiranda, since rack mount and frame mount suit different bikes and it's worth getting right the first time.