Quote Originally Posted by plantluvver
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.

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.

Mary
Well, Mary. The 70 were 30+ years ago. That makes us old by some definitions, and young by others. I like to think about stromatolites, and then I feel exceedingly young (on a geological scale).

I think that bicycle tourists do not use kickstands for the reasons you stated - it just wouldn't work with that much weight on the bike. Trees, telephone poles, and buildings would have been the obvious substitutes in most situations. If you could find a double kickstand like motocycles use it would probably work.

I'm trying to picture you bungieing a 25 lb frozen turkey onto your bike. Kudos to you making your bike a workhorse, not just a pleasure vehicle. You put the rest of us to shame! Maybe you could put a child carrier on the bike and strap the turkey into that - those held 25 lb kids and had 3 sides. [But if you do it, we need a picture!] Better yet a trailer and then the bike won't be tippy.