Ziko Frankie Buggy

To be honest...RUBBISH. Not worth the money we paid for it. my 1yr old fell out of the stupid straps and scratched his face on the road. when i phoned mama's and papa's up they told me to take it into shop were i'd bought it from, this i did only to be told that this is the new type of safety straps and tightened them up...it happened again so i sewed them in place.

Now the wheele's have also started to stick. Basically its rubbish dont waste your hard earned money on it. We are now going to buy a new buggy...a cheaper one that works and has the 5 point safety straps!!!

The Ziko is all well and good until you have to deal with the silly wheel problems. It's hard that they got some of it right but the essential features of the buggy so wrong. Avoid it like the plague until the design team get real and design a wheel set for the real world and not their own aesthetic ideals.

The Ziko Frankie Buggy looks so nice and trendy, very sterdy and strong. Only bad point is back wheels stick, if anyone is having this problem its the plastic wheel guard easy to take off, turn the buggy upside down put the brake on so you can see, and just puch the button and pull it off, mine has never sticked after that,

Overall I love the Ziko Frankie Buggy. I used it to death for a year - this included being folded and unfolded a number of times each day to get on and off the bus - it received a lot of abuse, but withstood it well. I had a buggy board hooked onto it for much of the year and my hefty toddler didn't upset the frame at all.

The good points listed above make it a wonderful buggy for day to day use, and to be honest the bad points are more niggly things rather than major faults.

The only other thing I would add to the bad points is the locking mechanism sometimes gets caught on the wrong side of the frame when folding up, so you need to unfold the buggy then re-fold it ensuring it has all gone where it should.

The buggy liner is lovely and comfortable and the footmuff very warm - I'm now using it on my current buggy!

When it was sent to buggy heaven (ie the dump) I feel it had served me well, some may not consider a year to be very long, but we don't drive much, we prefer to walk and use the bus, so it did many miles - the majority with a toddler on a buggy board attached.

I bought the Ziko Frankie for my son who is 20 months old. It pushed good for a few weeks then the wheels started to stick - the other week whilst fetching my daughter from school the back wheel completely came off the frame after the piece of plastic holding it snapped. The wheel was literally held on by the linked brake. The brakes never worked well in the first place and always clicked up when on the bus. Also, the rivets ( screws that you cannot get to as need a special tool or something ) came loose also causing the pushchair to not fix together properly. All in all i was very disappointed with this item and sent it straight back - including all the accessorys that i bought with it - as they are no use to me now as i certainly dont want another one. Please read pushchair reviews before buying one and dont go by good looks as I did. I now have a Maclaren Techno XLR and it is fabulous!!!!

All in all I think the Ziko Frankie is a fab pushchair, but I feel it is VERY VERY expensive for what it is, and I really don't think it has anything exceptional that other umberella strollers don't. If you want to be a bit different, its great as the fabrics really stand out from the other pushchairs out there, but I would advise to do your bank balance a favour and buy one second hand on ebay!