Thanks.

That's my friend's old NORCO BIGFOOT.

Where I live now there are a lot of farms not far from town. There often is nowhere to lean a bicycle around when I stop for a break or to take images. I also sometimes carry a small stove with me on which I'll cook a quick meal or heat a mug of tea or coffee. It's nice to have the bicycle standing up whilst I get stuff out of a pannier or put it back in a pannier.

That being said, I have seen slightly crushed chainstays or bent kickstand top-plates where the kickstand was installed by some ham-fisted ogre who figured you have to reef on the bolt until it can move ant more. I find a bit of locktite or other thread locker on a kickstand top-plate bolt along with a rubber shim under and over the kickstand plates works wonder for keeping the kickstand in place in use. I've never had one of mine come loose.

Another thing I like on my touring bicycles that many will ridicule, is a "Dork Disc" aka spoke protector. When I'm miles away from home and if a chain should for some reason derail into the spokes I like to know that the spoke protector is there to protect the spokes from getting chewed up or worse breaking. When you're bouncing over big stones and or ruts on dirt roads that spoke protector is nice added insurance against having to walk many miles back to civilization.

Cheers