Christ the idiocy in this thread. Pretty sure I'm just feeding a troll, but what the hell, this is 4chan - that's what we do.
>>973647If I recall from my schoolchild days, kickstands were pretty fuckin' useless when I took my "mountain bike" out "into the woods". The tip of the kickstand just sank into the dirt most of the time and bike tipped over.
I can't imagine having a kickstand on my mountain bike nowadays. I'd worry about it flopping around while descending fast over rough stuff, and it's completely unnecessary deadweight - if I want to stop for a while, there's always plenty of stuff to lean the bike against, and if there's not, well, the bike is already covered in mud - carefully laying it on the ground isn't going to hurt anything; I'm going to wash it when I get home anyway.
>>973696>what if I just want to leave my bike where it's going to get stolenAnd I don't have a kickstand on my road bike, because I never need it. Any decent bike rack that I'm locking to will hold the bike up just fine; a kickstand would just get in the way if I tried to use it. I've never, ever, ever had trouble finding something to lean it on temporarily, and it never stands for an extended period if it's not locked up.
The only exception is my touring bike, which is unwieldy enough when fully loaded that it's actually difficult to lean on things. I tried a Pletscher dual-leg stand for a while, but with front panniers, the front end could flop and the bike would still tip over. So now I have a dual-stand setup with one at the rear and one on the front rack, kind of like the picture (not my bike), and it works really well.
But if you're not doing heavy touring, a kickstand on your bike is basically THE defining sign of a casualfag - at least in the USA.
>>973639>>973647>>973696>>973697>>973718>>973748>>973759>>973841>>973873All this fucking faggotry
