Stretch Your Stroller

It’s an unpleasant fact of parenting when you’re both close to 6 feet tall: stroller handles are too short. Walks become painful, tiring, hunchbacked ordeals.

One solution would be to have the other LittlePages push LittlestPage in the stroller when we go out. However, the primary purpose for strollers, it would seem to her siblings, is to try to get LittlestPage to achieve orbital velocity (or, if there are any wheelchair ramps around, actual orbit).

So, we decided on another tack: make stroller handle extensions!

Last year’s a local garage sale included a broken umbrella stroller of similar design to ours. You can likely find one at the Goodwill or local garage sales. (Haggle. We got ours for free because it was broken.) I used a dremel tool to cut the rivets that held the handle on, but you could just as easily use a hacksaw to cut the tubes off if you sand or tape the cut ends.

Lay the new handles alongside the existing ones. In this image, the new handles are the dark blue ones on the inside:

Then use some cheap hose clamps to attach the new handles at the top and bottom:

Voila! One back-pain-less stroller:

We get comments on this one when we go out, and now that this stroller is dying, I plan on removing the extensions and putting them on the new one as well.

This post is also available as an instructable.

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