I am confused by this. I can't imagine the weight of a kickstand "ripping" a welded kickstand off of any bicycle. Not to mention what is the point of a kickstand plate if it can't handle a kickstand, double or knot. I assume you don't mean weight of the kickstand but maybe fully weighted kickstand. But even if people were sitting on the bike with the kickstand down--which I hope Riv riders would understand is not generally a good practice--I can't fathom how the plate would be riven from the frame before one of the legs would give way on the kickstand itself. If it did, are we sure it wasn't some perfect freak storm that happened once? Or are these kickstands and the pivots super strong, and acting like a pry bar on the plate? Still hard to picture. Maybe a batch of faulty kickstand plate welds.
By the way, my double clears a 650B x 2.25 Thunder Burt no problem. I guess it's maybe not a Pletcher, it's black and reads "Massload." It came with a used Clem and I transferred it to my new Clem. Works great so far. On Monday, August 24, 2020 at 7:59:43 PM UTC-4, Dave Johnston wrote: > > A few years back there reports of the weight of the double kick stand > ripping the Kickstand plate off of Rivendell bicycles, so you should > actually mount it with the long bolt and chainstay sandwich, not the shorty > bolt directly to the plate. I suspect part of the problem may have been > people sitting on the bike with the kickstand down, but Riv stopped selling > them after reports of frame damage. > > -Dave > > On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 10:16:46 AM UTC-4, Alex K wrote: >> >> Just got my Clem L rolling and I'm pretty smitten. The handling on >> curves and general comfort level are fairly astounding. I do have a Nitto >> Campee 34F with a hardware-less Wald 157 basket mounted on the front for >> larger loads (laundry, pizza, etc.). What I'm wondering here is if anyone >> has any experience with the double kickstand on a heavier/loaded bike. I >> didn't love the single Pletscher kickstand that came with the bike and am >> considering a Pletscher or Velo Orange double stand. Any thoughts? Thanks >> for reading. >> Alex >> > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e9f82f1a-1d61-420e-a672-b02342b62881o%40googlegroups.com.
