Doona Liki Trike Review (2023): Easy to Transport

When I first noticed a trike stroller, I used to be instantly intrigued. A stroller that provides my energetic 1-year-old the feeling of driving on a trike? It gave the impression of his new pleased place.

My son loves taking walks in a wide range of strollers—he’s been within the entrance row of my testing for the very best strollers, in any case. With the Doona Liki Trike S3, he gained extra freedom, but additionally misplaced a number of the consolation and assist he most well-liked if the stroll went too lengthy.

Ultra Compact

Doona isn’t the one maker of trike-style strollers, however Doona’s Liki Trike stands out for the way straightforward it’s to fold. It breaks down right into a compact rectangle of kinds that has a tender deal with, making it straightforward to decide up and transport. It’s nonetheless heavy, although, even when it seems to be good and small.

The solely draw back? The bigger guardian deal with doesn’t fold. You have to both depart it on and have it stick off the trike at an odd angle or take away it. To take away it, merely pull out the pin on the base of the deal with that connects it to the remainder of the stroller. The pin is connected to the physique of the stroller with a brief twine. That makes it a bit annoying to use, nevertheless it’s a assure you gained’t lose it.

It’s a bit bizarre to carry the guardian deal with individually, which is why Doona sells a Liki Travel Bag ($45) that matches the folded trike and has a pocket to maintain the deal with. It’ll stick straight out of the bag, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a bit simpler than simply holding it in your fingers. If you buy the Liki Trike S5 ($300) as a substitute of the S3, you’ll get the journey bag included, plus wood handles. That’s the one distinction between the 2 fashions.

Breakdown isn’t the one factor that’s compact about this trike. Other trikes, just like the Joovy, are giant and hulking, however the Liki has a smaller physique that takes up much less room on a sidewalk or a grocery retailer aisle. It’s a pleasant alternative for those who’ll be someplace busy, like a park or bustling sidewalk. It’s additionally fairly reactive to your contact—each my husband and I discovered it simpler to management if we saved the deal with peak decrease than a traditional stroller, nearer to our hips fairly than the elbow peak of a traditional stroller.

That modern profile comes at a price, although, which is consolation. As my husband so eloquently described it when he noticed the trike, “There’s no cush for his tush!” The cushion is skinny, and the slender body meant that when my son obtained drained, he didn’t have as a lot room to lean and lounge again like he would in a typical stroller.

Transforming Trike

The deal with for the trike doesn’t simply take away for journey. The Liki Trike is meant to develop and alter together with your baby, from once they want you to push them alongside till they don’t.