Originally Posted by
John Wilke
Know what I mean?
YA!!
See I'm using my 20.4 lb bike for street transportation. I already have a seat wedge bag (2 lbs of crap inside), a frame mount topeak road morph g pump on the top tube, and two 24 oz bottles. What's a point of porsche if you get a flat and have no way of fixing it. Plus it won't ride without a lot of gas, you want big tank for racing....
I'm now putting aerobars on it... I WANT MY PORCHE FASTER!!!!
Lean it against, right.. Well that's what I do.
I'm perfectely alright with leaning my bike against things.
There is this one lycer store I went there several times. Once took my bike with me, then several other times lean it against ice cooler and told the guy to watch it. Last time there was a new guy talking to a chick. In this act of trying to IMPRESS the girl he raises a point with me, what if another customer comes it and has to get ice? I told to myself, ok half drunk, told the guy ok man. Took my bike and walked off. (I know you guys would reason)..
I walked off without verbalizing my actions and now I'm giving them 3 weeks worth of time to think about if they want me as a customer. I can buy beer a publix, at windixie, at another publix, at another lycer store, at numerous gas stations. You name it. They want me as customer they better respect me.
I don't really have a good reason for kick stand. Because I can live without it just fine. But since it's only under 400 grams, than less than a lb, who cares. Let me have a kick stand...
I could really use it when I roll to my car to get something. That way I don't have to walk to a street to lean my bike against it. Also, at a store near a check out place, I can get the kick stand out instead of leaning my bike against something.
It's convinient, right?