Kickstand Question......

[annie]

On the right bike, kickstands rock! Do you put one on your sleek racing bike? I hope not. But on your touring, commuter, about town bike? I vote yes. Don't worry about geeky. If it works for you, then it's cool!

annie

[Aint Doody]

Annie--this is getting freaky! (RE: Divorce prevention thread.) I agree with you 100% I don't have one on my road bike or my new mt. bike that hasn't yet come home. But I really like having them on my hybrid and my in-town bike that lives in our store.

[annie]

Sweetie, we reach a point in life when we know what works. Too bad we have to get "old" to reach that point, but you gotta admit, there are some advantages! Who cares if kickstands are cool? They work. DH's? Well, they work sometimes, too. And we know how to get around making it work FOR us.

annie

[mimitabby]

If you want to have a kickstand, by all means do.
But bottom line, you don't want to take it off, so don't worry about the paint underneath it. That's the last place anyone is going to look for a chip.
We had a kickstand put on our tandem. IT IS WONDERFUL!

(it's even harder to find a place to prop a tandem up against)

[SouthernBelle]

Can't say that I blame you about being upset about the paint. Get some touch up paint from the auto parts store. Then put some rubberbands around the part of the kickstand that rubbed. Don't kick the stand back up til the paint dries!

[makbike]

I simply can't image a bike without a kickstand. I hear a lot of comments, mostly unnecessary IMO, from club members about the kickstands on my bike. However, my parents are products of the depression and we were raised to take care of our stuff. As kids we were taught not to lay our bikes on the ground and I guess it stuck. My touring bike came with a kickstand and I had my BF put one on my recumbent when he was building it back in July. I simply can't image putting a $1000 bike on the ground and I can hear my dad now giving me a friendly but stern reminder to take care of my toys. Darn to be different from the masses and use your kickstand with pride.

[HillSlugger]

I have a kickstand on my road bike; I hate the idea of laying my bike in the dirt and there's not always a good place to prop up a bike. I don't care if it looks geeky, but I will take it off for my triathlons