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Neonato : Piuma - col720 Lightweight Pushchair Stroller | 
 enlarge | Brand: Neonato
Category: Baby Product
This item is no longer available
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 7854
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 18.7
Dimensions (in): 29.5 x 16.9 x 8.7
EAN: 8005549207608
ASIN: B000MK5M42
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| Customer Reviews:
Good Value September 30, 2008
A. Morrison (London UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We bought this as a second pushchair for going on holiday as we felt our bugaboo didn't go small enough (and would be too much hassle to try and deal with at the door of the plane). As the other reviewer says, there is very little info available, but at the time this one was on offer from Amazon, so we took the risk.
The frame is nice and sturdy and very light. The wheels are bigger than the average umbrella stroller and coped well with rough ground. The basket is good - much easier to use than the bugaboo, although you really can't leave anything in it when the pushchair is folded. The hood mechanism seemed a bit cheap and wobbly, but it performed well. The handle is nice and was comfortable both for me (5ft 3) and my husband (6 ft 1). My shoulder handbag fits nicely over the handle too! It folds farily easily, but you need 2 hands as there are two levers to pull simultaneously. The foot muff is good - attaches easily with two poppers, and its great that its included rather than an expensive extra.
Downsides - Its still quite large when folded - took up the whole of the boot of our Renault Clio (although I think its probably the same as other 'book fold' puschairs of this type such as the Aria etc). The pastel striped seat is a bit old fashioned - I'd rather have had something funkier. The window in the hood isn't all that useful. The main problem we had was the harness kept slipping off our daughters shoulders. Some of the other competitor buggies advertised a 'freedom harness' which would probably have been an advantage.
In conclusion, I think this is good value, particularly if there's a discount offer. I much prefer it to my friend's McLaren Tecno. Its definitely a lot better than the cheaper umbrella strollers. Its ideal as a holiday buggy, spare or for grandma to use but I probably wouldn't choose it as my one and only puschair from birth.
good pushchair September 24, 2008
Pankaj (York, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For this pushchair there was not much information available on any of the UK websites including Amazon. After going through the original italian website for specs I finally decided to have the risk of buying it. I was indeed not disappointed by this purchase. The few things I was looking for in the pushchair (1) it should be able to recline completely flat ... and this does recline almost if not exactly flat(2) lightweight .. and this was ~7 kg which is the same as I learnt from neonato's Italian website. Being lightweight it is good to carry as I was actually going to carry it regularly up and down the stairs. The fabric is not top of the end but just moderate and I felt a more soft fabric of the outer part of the hood and foot muff would really have increased quality so I knocked a star down. The chassis is lightweight aluminum and wheels are lightweight synthetic with rear wheels slightly bigger than the fore ones which is good for rough surface. The pushchair moves and turns extremely smoothly. The seats and backrest are made of hard surface underneath so no discomfort to the baby due to potential sagging of the backrest. There have been confusions regards if it is really suitable from birth or not even from the manufacturer themselves as they have mentioned different things at different places, but I guess with almost complete flat recline it can usable from birth, however, with a word of caution that in that position the backrest's end does not very elegantly align with the end of the seat base and there remains a little vertical gap. I did have to push in a soft blanket underneath the seat cover and it worked fine with us but this I believe is another reason I would not give it 5 start in all.
Finally about the little bits : the handle bar can be turned up and down in few positions changing the height with change spanning across ~10 inches. The black bar behind the back wheel stops them immediately and acts like a break. Although there is no provision for the baby to be facing you in lie flat position, there is a little transparent window at the back of the hood through which you can keep an eye on him/her although complete eye contact is not be possible that way. The basket underneath has enough space. The folding mechanism is pretty simple just lift two plastic sliding pull-up bits you see on the two sides of handle bar and it folds like a book. Doing the same will unfold it back again. It can stand upright after folding, although, there is a small fabric handle at the side it case you want to hold/carry it. It folds to moderate size and won't fill your boot completely after folding but if you want a really compact folding one then you might want go for "neonato dakar" which folds like umbrella and with that one can plugin/attach neonato's 0+ car seat as well while "puima" can't be used with car seat.
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