QUOTE:

"Everybody wanted kickstands in the 70s too."

Are you saying I'm OLD? ( No, I guess you're saying WE'RE old! But I am still a dork! I've grown used to the idea that I will never be slick, and ride a rocket.

Just Kidding.

But I am wondering what tourers do. (Tourists? Tourerers? ) What is the proper English, seems like tourist is right, but don't they deserve their own word? Bad enough we share "cyclist" with motorcyclists, but to share a noun with some fat geezers sitting on an air-conditioned bus, doing 17 cities in three days.

Back to my question. My kickstand is inadequate when I am creatively bungieing (Well, it's a verb now ), say, a 25 lb. frozen turkey and its accessories on my rack. (I gotta get panniers!) Tourists must use something to hold up their loaded bikes at times, I would think.

I guess I will need to find the Tourer porn website with all the pics of loaded bikes. Don't know if I bookmarked it.

Mary