Joined: Aug 2010
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From: Madison, WI
Bikes: 1961 Ideor, 1966 Perfekt 3 Speed AB Hub, 1994 Bridgestone MB-6, 2006 Airnimal Joey, 2009 Thorn Sherpa, 2013 Thorn Nomad MkII, 2015 VO Pass Hunter, 2017 Lynskey Backroad, 2017 Raleigh Gran Prix, 1980s Bianchi Mixte on a trainer. Others are now gone.
I have kickstands on my steel framed bikes. Mostly use the rear mount Greenfield ones, but one bike has a stand behind the bottom bracket. But my Titanium bike frame I am hesitant to risk damaging it so I do not have a kickstand on that frame, I use something similar to the click stand.
Kickstand, you stop, get off the bike and deploy the stand. Takes a few seconds. Sometimes I wrap some velcro or use an elastic on a brake handle to make sure the bike will not roll off the stand, that takes a few more seconds.
But the clickstand type stand, you have to lock a front wheel brake. In my case I am pulling the stand out of the handlebar bag and putting it together, then carefully putting it on solid ground and on the frame. While it might only take 15 more seconds than a kickstand would take, it still bugs me that it takes that much more time.
I often find that I do not stop and get off the bike that lacks the kickstand to take photos as much as I would with a bike with a kickstand.
That said, some clickstand owners love them.
My point is that you should think about the convenience of whatever you get. If I did not have a kickstand on the bike, I might not have stopped to take this photo. But I am kind of glad I did stop to take the photo.