Road Cycling - Road bike kick stand

Just purchased a Giant tcr1 alloy and was wondering about a after market kick stand,hopefully carbon to decrease weight.Anyone aware of one for this bike.Let me know and thanks.

i hope you're prepared to get a lot of useless responses from people telling you how they think it's a stupid idea to put a kickstand on a road bike.

in the meantime, i've never seen a carbon kickstand, everything made now is probably aluminum. your best bet is probably a rear-mount stand, there are a few companies that make them. one that comes to mind is a company called Greenfield.

i think it's a joke.

A Greenfield kickstand is a good choice (And there's some decent copies), but as mentioned, you may not have enough clearance to mount one on the chainstays at their junction with the bottom bracket. If that's the case then you'll need to get the model that mounts in the vicinity of the left chainstay/seatstay junction. The Greenfield stands are relatively light also (You can always go with ti mounting hardware!?) I say if you want/need a kickstand, then install one and who cares what others say (It's your bike and there's lots more useless things on lots of bikes).
gruppo

Sounds good, biking here in the high desert and times have come up where I stop and visit friends and there's really no place convenient to prop the bike against, something unobtrusive and extremely light. Before I posted I knew it sounded like a joke and laughed myself. Thanks

It's not a joke....

Is there a sidestand made that doesn't damage thin-wall bike frame tubing?

Normally I would say that it's your bike and do what makes you happy, but I have seen too many frames damaged by clamp-on kickstands. Be careful, aluminum and carbon can be very prone to damage from clamping things where the tubes are not designed to have things clamped.

I've seen some dropout adapters for recumbents that allow you to mount a conventional kickstand or rear-mount kickstand without clamping to any tubes. I've also seen some kickstands that mount directly to the dropouts. I'm not sure if these only work on recumbents or not though.

Lay the bike down, drive side up. Kickstands allows a bike to fall and break things.

Don't skimp on the stand. A good rule of thumb for stand weight is 1/4 the weight of the bike.

My experience is that you think you have the bike properly supported by the kick stand, and whoof, along comes a wind gust, or a kid pushing past you, and down goes the bike.

Truly, my bike was more damaged by inadvertent falls from the kickstand than by any problem lying it on its side. So, I said "bye-bye" kickstand.

Now, I understand that there are some bike stands for touring that hook to both sides of the back spindle and swing down under the tire - but I think they would be mighty heavy and perhaps cumbersome.

Valid points and have come to the conclusion to drop this idea,appreciate the input. Thanks

I've got a couple of Greenfield kickstands still in the wrapper. Drop me an email if you're interested.

greenfield is around the corner from me i believe, a friends father who works for them once gave me a whole box, he helped design the machine that makes them. they are nice but if most road bikes have frames like my cannondale where would it go. there is no place to clamp it.

Bikes fall thats part of life.

Sure you can say you should lay it down drive side up but how often do you lean it against a building?

Kickstands have a place. I've got one on my comutter because it is more convient to prop it on the stand while I put on the lock.

Of course we are not talking about a comutter but a road bike. My choice here is no stand. Find a place to lean or lay it down. You can also do the pedal stand on a curb or stair if possible.

But remember you bike is gonna get scratched... Either it will fall in a gust of wind, someone will bump it against the wall... You will knock it over while cleaning it...

Ummm... Stop worrying about such minor things and ride.

What if, like me, you have a storage problem? I have no room to put in a bike stand that would support it. When I have to take out the lawn mower, I have to move my bike now. When I get a new one, it will be harder to navigate the area.

The only viable alternative is a kick stand. If I get the Zurich, as I now plan, the part where the kick stand would attach is steel.

But, after reading all the anti-kickstand opinions, I almost afraid to ask my LBS about one.

You can get a single bike stand that you tire sets in and takes up no more room then a few inches on each side of the tire.Dont go with a kickstand because after a while,you would take it off anyway.Kickstand on a Zurich,not.

Saw this over on the Bicycling magazine site and thought it more fitting here than in the jokes section:

Q You've already confessed to murduring your wife, but why did you bury her with her arse sticking out of the ground??

A I needed a place to park my bike.

FWIW, Home Depot has a $5.00 fold down wall mount bike rack in the garage (hardware) section.

Works for me.

FWIW, Home Depot has a $5.00 fold down wall mount bike rack in the garage (hardware) section.

Works for me.

I bought one of those (from Home Depot too) a while ago so I could spare my roadbike from having to stay in the garage during the "off-season". I use it to hang the bike upstairs in my home office. It works great. The MTB stays in the garage though with all the rest of my dirty things. ;)

http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/images/house/office/18Oct2002/PICT0022.JPG

Heh, khuon -- your desk setup is very similar to mine & my husband's (when I'm running dual monitors.) We have curving, sectional desks, too. :)

I've bought one of those fold-down racks. I got sidetracked and forgot to install it since I've been tinkering with my bike in the house lately. I dream of a shop stand.

Heh, khuon -- your desk setup is very similar to mine & my husband's (when I'm running dual monitors.) We have curving, sectional desks, too. :)

What's scary is that the whole desk is just for me. :O My wife's office is in another room as she can't stand the noise from all my fans and hard drives not to mention the heat level. Also that's only half of my desktop machines (yes, there are non-desktop machines hiding elsewhere) you're seeing there as I've got those monitors hooked to switching KVMs to "conserve real estate". I really like the curving sectional desks... got the first few pieces from Ikea a few years ago and kept expanding.



I've bought one of those fold-down racks. I got sidetracked and forgot to install it since I've been tinkering with my bike in the house lately. I dream of a shop stand.

I hear you... I think my next big bike purchase will be the new Topeak shopstand. I've been suspending my bikes from the clamp of my hitch-rack and it's starting to get old.

Appreciate the advice but as I posted earlier,no kick stand for me, here's a bike I saw on Ebay and was wondering what you all think of it.
Thanks and have a good New Year!!!!

Nice.......are you gonna be time-trialing in it?

George

That's not my bike, my bike arrives on Friday- it's a 2003 Tcr 1 alloy. I just saw this bike and decided to post it.

That is an odd machine. Looks like a TT bike designed for the track! (but it has shifters and a low BB).

I suspect it is fairly old too...

It advertised with:RIMS : SPECIALIZED 3 SPOKES CARBON FIBER W/ 700c REAR AND 650c FRONT
Just found it strage.
Being new to this sport it jus puzzled me.
Here's the rest of the advertised parts list:

HEADSET : COLNAGO/CAMPAGNOLO CUP STYLE
SEAT POST : 27.2 CAMPAGNOLO NUOVO RECORD
SHIFTER : SHIMANO DURA ACE 8 SPEED DOWN TUBE
FR. DERAILLEUR :SHIMANO DURA ACE ( BRAZED ON)
RR. DERAILLEUR: SHIMANO DURA ACE 8 SPEED
B.B. SHIMANO ITALIAN PRESSED IN
CRANKS : SHIMANO DURA ACE 52/42T
HUBSET : SPECIALIZED NYTRO CARBON BUILT IN
BRAKESET : SHIMANO DURA ACE (7700) DUAL PIVOT CALIPERS W/ AERO BRAKE LEVERS DURA ACE
STEM : LOOK ERGO STEM ADJUSTABLE $194.00 RETAIL
HANDLE BAR : GRAPHITE "COWHORN" LIGHTWEIGHT
SADDLE : VETTA
CASSETTE : SHIMANO DURA ACE 8 SPEED
CHAIN : SHIMANO DURA ACE
RIMS : SPECIALIZED 3 SPOKES CARBON FIBER W/ 700c REAR AND 650c FRONT
TIRES : VITTORIA
PEDALS : N/A

FWIW, Home Depot has a $5.00 fold down wall mount bike rack in the garage (hardware) section.

Works for me.

FWIW? That little gem of info from you and the pic from the following poster will have me looking for two of them this weekend, maybe three. That's worth a whole lot!! Funny how much great info we can pick up here. Thanks.

FWIW? That little gem of info from you and the pic from the following poster will have me looking for two of them this weekend, maybe three. That's worth a whole lot!! Funny how much great info we can pick up here. Thanks.

Thanks.

I have mentioned this little handy device probably once a year. Glad it was helpful.

If anyone is really that interesred here's the ebay url:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7298&item=3647339539

Thanks.

I have mentioned this little handy device probably once a year. Glad it was helpful.

Stopped by Home Depot tonight on the way home from work. I had to add tax to get it to $5, though. Got two of them waiting to mount in the garage this weekend. Thanks again.

Ive noticed the most common reason for a leaning bike to fall is that the wheels turn and it rolls away from the resting position. So I have a small block of rubber about 3/8" thick on a small cord that just hangs up near the drop for the front brake . When I lean it against something to park I depress the front brake lever and slip the rubber block in between the gap that is formed above the brake lever and it keeps the brake "on" for the front like an emergency brake and the bike stays put. Just a suggestion,,,,,,,,,,,

Unless you flat, why would you ever stop during a training ride anyway? Stopping defeats the purpose of training. You get home, you hang the bike or lean it against the wall.

Just wondering. I've never seen a stand on a bike that cost more than $125.

God...I have forgotten that kick stands even exist! Wew, time to come back to earth.