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From: neal@druxv.UUCP (Neal D. McBurnett)
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Subject: Re: So what's wrong w/ kickstands? - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 12:42:20 EDT
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Many "serious cyclists" are mildly neurotic when it comes to kickstands:
they don't like the extra weight, or the idea of an ugly piece of metal
touching their delicately brazed and painted tubes.  I can only think
of a few times in the past year when I haven't had a sturdy vertical
object to balance my bike against (and I use one of those $1 pieces of plastic
jammed into my front brake lever to hold the front tire steady: works
wonders!).  When there's nothing to lean the bike against, I just gently
lay it in the grass.
-Neal McBurnett, ihnp4!druny!neal, 303-538-4852