Britax 2012 B-Agile and B-Safe Travel System, Black
From Britax USA
| List Price: | $399.99 |
| Price: | $336.99 |
Product Description
The B-Agile Stroller from Britax is a lightweight, compact stroller featuring a one-hand, quick-fold design with an automatic chassis lock. The B-Agile is also compatible with other major manufacturer’s infant car seats when used with the Briax infant car seat adapter (sold separately). The padded, supportive seat features a 5-point harness system with head pad that is adjustable without having to rethread or unhook any straps. With a weight capacity of 55 pounds and an infinite recline, the B-Agile is suitable from birth. The extra large canopy with a mesh ventilation window allows you to see your child and, and your child to see you. The comfort-ride suspension ensures a smooth ride, and the swivel front wheel improves maneuverability.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3781 in Baby Product
- Color: Black
- Brand: Britax USA
- Model: S865800
- Released on: 2011-10-14
- Dimensions: .0" h x.0" w x.0" l,20.00 pounds
Features
- The B-Safe Infant Car Seat, features side impact protection which distributes crash forces, shields from vehicle intrusion and contains the head and body
- The B-Agile Stroller, suitable birth to 55 pounds, features a lightweight aluminum frame and a one hand quick fold design
- The B-Agile Stroller, features a 30-pound weight capacity, a tangle free, five point harness, and energy-absorbing foam liner
- The B-Agile Stroller, has three-wheel design which provides improved steering and maneuverability
Most helpful customer reviews
145 of 155 people found the following review helpful.My husband and I spent a good amount of time researching strollers and car seats taking into considering safety (of course), reliability, comfort, size, price and others. We settled on Britax almost immediately and I spent countless hours trying to find a set that was affordable. On the Britax website the stroller itself is over $300! Ouch! You can imagine my surprise when I found this set on Amazon and I immediately made the purchase.When our order arrived I was elated to find out how compact the stroller gets, considering I had a Lexus ES. A large stroller wasn't really an option. But I can fit 8 of these strollers in my trunk! Also the car seat and base set were easy to put in the car!The stroller was super east to assemble and looks fantastic. We chose the black set, so we could use it for a long time and hopefully with our next baby. We tested it out around the house and the stroller takes corners with easy, feels light weight (but not cheap) and we love the big wheels!If you are like us, getting ready for a new baby and care about safety, size, etc go with this set. You won't be disappointed!
104 of 115 people found the following review helpful.The baby's not here yet, but I'm already really glad we went with Britax; we'll see how I feel in a year or two.In the end, a lot of picking a stroller/travel system is just what feels right to you, so you should go to a big baby store and try several strollers out. We went shopping with a totally different brand in mind, but after a mind-boggling hour of pushing, pulling, folding, attaching, and detaching several travel systems, we went home with the Britax B-Agile in large part because my wife just liked the way it folds and deploys the best, as well as how light it is -- it was one of the lightest in the store. I was leaning towards a Chicco, but its pull-handle folding mechanism was admittedly a little frustrating and it was definitely heavier, whereas this B-Agile is just click, lift, whoosh - done. Plus, as an engineer, I liked the click-and-go attachment system of the Britax (note: NOT the same as snap-n-go...more on that later), where the strollers and the carriers have dedicated receptacles that are very easy to use; the other brands seemed to use the same bottom hook that connects to the car base unit, but it just hooks onto the stroller's drink/snack tray, which was pretty detachable. I just wasn't thrilled with the robustness of that design. And THEN I started going crazy with the modularity of the system....I'm sadly starting to succumb to paranoia about all the potential threats to my future baby's health, and as soon as I opened the box I started worrying about how much time kids spend in the car seat, because everyone seems to just babies around in car seats like a chihuahua in a blinged-out purse. Some news stories and studies suggest it's not exactly great for their developing spine and lungs, and again, as an aerospace engineer I've spent enough time harnessed into crashworthy seats to know it's not how I'd like to pass my spare time. One downside to the B-Agile stroller is that the toddler seat doesn't really lay all that flat, no matter what some marketing material says. I don't know if other stroller seats lay completely flat to create a more bassinet-like place for baby to stretch out on walks around the block, but frankly, looking at these seats, I'm not sure I'd just plop Junior in there as is, anyway. Lucky for me (and Amazon's profits), Britax makes a bassinet attachment! It'll add another third to the cost of the system, but having just installed it, I know I will feel much better about my kid having room to breathe and wiggle about for the first several months of walking the dog or even taking a ride on Metro. The bassinet attachment doesn't seem to be marketed that heavily in the US and seems more popular in Europe (Britax is the product of a British-German merger), where they love their prams (and they call the bassinet a "carrycot"). Stateside, the bassinet is marketed as an attachment for the much pricier B-Ready stroller (which is probably a better investment if you're going to have a second baby soon), but it also fits the B-Agile. Unfortunately, you have to recline the stroller seat all the way to make room for the bassinet, and then if you walk too close to the stroller you'll tend to bump your shins into it. On the British version of their website, Britax has a video of the B-Agile that shows you can remove the toddler seat to make room for the bassinet and/or have a minimalist frame for mounting the car seat on. However, you won't see any instructions for removing the toddler seat from the stroller in the American instruction manual; and comparing the British version of the instruction manual (downloaded from their website), I see there are two subtle design changes made to the American stroller to discourage us from removing the toddler seat (which, frankly, we're not going to use for the first few months). This was probably done to satisfy the lawyers of stupid people who would put it back together wrong and then sue the company. And as a disclaimer, let me just say that you should NOT remove the toddler seat because you might cause injury or death and it's not my fault, but I'm just sayin', if you're a rocket scientist like me or even just vaguely coordinated, you might find a way to easily, reversibly, and non-destructively remove the toddler seat from the stroller (which folds nicely for storage) and make plenty of room for the bassinet, as shown in the photograph I've uploaded. I'm psyched.And speaking of removing the seat (disclaimer: don't do it, you'll cause injury or death, not my fault), this is as close as you'll get during the infant months of having a Snap-n-Go style system, because one downside of the Britax click-and-go system is that the B-Safe car seat does NOT fit in the Snap-n-Go, in case you wanted to keep something like that in the trunk for quick shopping trips. So that's one downside to this system. This gave me momentary pause before I threw away the packaging for our new B-Agile system, but the B-Agile is light enough -- and extra light and sleek with the seat removed (disclaimer: injury, death, not my fault) -- that I'm now thinking the money saved not needing the Snap-n-Go recovers half the cost of the awesome bassinet attachment.The other negative about this system is that it comes with no frills that are standard on other brands. Drink holder? Extra. Toddler tray? Extra. Dang, babies are expensive, yo.But, I am so excited about the system we have now accumulated -- between the B-Agile, B-Safe, and the bassinet attachment -- and how it's going to serve all our needs for the next few years in a lightweight, adaptable, sturdy, and good-looking way, that I really couldn't bring myself to dock the rating by a whole star, so while my wallet might say 4.5 stars, I'll round up and call it 5. And if we do have another baby, I see a B-Ready in our future.PROS:* Super-easy folding, fairly easy unfolding* Lightweight - both the stroller and seat* Bassinet attachment! (Not included)* Highly maneuverable* Robust click-and-go attachment systemCONS:* Seat doesn't lay completely flat (again, I don't really think it would matter)* Tray, parents' drink-holder extra* Push handle is not adjustable (height/angle) like on the Chicco Cortina, which was very comfy, so take it for a test drive.
71 of 87 people found the following review helpful.Individually these pieces are fine. Together they're better than okay, but not great. The stroller with the infant seat on it is extremely hard to steer (impossible if you lock the front wheel, which they say you have to do if you're using the infant seat), and even harder with only one hand. Also, as noted in the review of the car seat by itself, the great canopy on the stroller bumps into the handle of the car seat so that it's impossible to completely keep out the sun or rain (see customer pics on the car seat).I paid $314 (+ tax) for this set; I wouldn't pay $439 for it. I like Britax stuff and the pieces individually, but the one killer is that I can't go shopping with the baby, and for that reason alone I wouldn't buy it again. I might actually go and get a different Britax stroller (since I'm kind-of stuck with the car seat; they're hard to sell because you're not supposed to buy them used) just so that I can have a bigger underseat basket.Individually:**Stroller**Pros+ super-easy folding -- really possible to do with one hand in one motion (after you press the grey button, which can also be done with one hand)+ automatic lock when folded+ compact when folded; easy to steer without infant seat+ lightweight and easy to lift+ great brakes that feel really safe and are easy to engage and disengage+ large canopy works great without infant seatCons- really small underseat basket, so it's really hard to shop with your baby (compared to, say, the Chicco KeyFit 30 stroller frame, which can fit a whole duffle bag)- all accessories are separate (drink holder, kid tray) -- you'd be surprised how much you sometimes just want a place to put a bottle of water with you on a walk- practically impossible to turn corners with front wheel locked**Car seat**Pros+ Comfortable for baby without lots of extra padding that gets in the way+ No infant insert needed (comes set for under 11 pounds; adjusts for bigger babies)+ Nice big canopy+ Locking mechanisms and shoulder strap guards have a good feel+ Good up to 32 inches (great for tall babies; most car seats only good to 30 inches) as well as 30 pounds (and I don't think any baby has ever hit 30 pounds before hitting 30 or even 32 inches)Cons- You have to rethread to adjust the shoulder straps and buckle- A little heavier than other car seats (although most car seats feel heavy to me, with or without baby)
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