Morning all.
This is roryrory's bloke, Mick typing to you. The girl herself is at work and I'm home looking after the rugrat doing some research into prams. I like the idea of a bike trailer/pusher/jogger pram combination, such as one of the following brands, but I'm not fully convinced.

Chariot
Croozer
Burley
Pacific Trailer Runner
Kiddicarrier 202 - Alloy

The biggest drama here for me seems to be that they are designed first and foremost as bike trailer. The problem is that we primarily want a practical pram; the conversion to a bike trailer or cross country ski sled etc is a large bonus, but the majority of its life would be in and out of the back of the car going to the shops etc. I'd like to think I'd get out once or twice a week and take the kids for a ride, but the reality is it will spend most of its life as a pram.
Road rules (in Victoria, at least) require that trailer passengers must be under 12 and wearing a helmet, so these things don't seem to be designed with a fully reclining seat or some other contraption to accommodate a sleeping baby. Obviously, this would only be used when in pram mode. I can only assume that the manufacturers are perhaps worried about the "knuckle head cycling with a baby, baby is injured/killed in an accident, knuckle head sues" possibility if the reclining option is there. Along the lines of (if you can believe the Darwin awards - al la "it must be true, I read it on the internet!") the idiot that claims he thought the cruise control on his campervan was an autopilot, crashed, sued and won.

Anyway. I haven't actually had a chance to look at, play with etc any of the above to see what's what, but my wish list is for these points.
Low weight - easy for the lady to get in and out of the car
Suspension - seems to exclude all but the most expensive (of course!)
Two seats - all above have two seaters
Seats may be individually or both reclined - none appear to have
Rapid, tool-free folding/unfolding - have to look at each one to really tell, I suppose

The only reference to these things that the BB search function came back with was the post in this thread by Divvy:
Tandem Prams, which do you recommend?

I would love to hear from Div or anyone that has used one of these things to see how good they are(nt?) in day to day life.