This is my experience with heavy, sometimes asymmetrical, rear loads, and stands:
Pletscher and VO 2-leg, bb-mount: No damned good. When you get much more than 5 lb difference between one side and the other, the bike will tend to fall over on the side that has the heavier load. Typical (eg, Greenfield) bb-mount stand: NDG*: again, a small discrepancy between left and right rear loads will tend to make the bike fall over on the heavier side. Greenfield dropout-area-mount stand: Works very well. I've loaded 15+ lb into panniers mounted onto the right (= likely to fall over) side, and the bike has stood with sufficient stability that I can just park it casually without fearing that it will fallover. Be sure you don't cut the dropout-mount Greefield stand too short: even turning the front wheel to left instead of right makes a difference in (bike+load) stability. But if your dropout-mounted rear stand is properly cut, this is -- IME, which is not inconsiderable -- the most reliable stand for heavy rear loads. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Cecily Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a twin leg kickstand already, and it doesn't help. > > On Friday, October 31, 2014 8:01:20 PM UTC-7, ted wrote: >> >> If it's mostly flop when parked on a kickstand that's the trouble, >> perhaps a twin leg stand would help. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************* *[I]n exploring the physical universe man has made no attempt to explore himself. Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to destroy consciousness. If one started by asking, what is man? what are his needs? how can he best express himself? one would discover that merely having the power to avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in electric light and to the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing so.”* * -- George Orwell, Pleasure Spots* *Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and it is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money. * * -- George Orwell, Keep The Apidistra Flying* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
