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Remove the rear wheel and lean it against your right thigh. Then still holding the rear triangle with the rear derailer off the ground, lay the front wheel down, allowing the steering to turn right as you lift the rear end toward vertical. Tip the near-vertical rear end toward the now-horizontal front wheel until you find a balance point where further tipping is stopped by the front brake stopping against the down tube. Now you can let go of the bike and attend to the rear wheel. Caution: bottles may still leak.

If this is too fancy, just lay the bike down flat on its left side. Not all bikes can be made to balance as above, tandems particularly. But the stoker can be drafted as a workstand.

As an extension of Rule 49, field repair that requires removing the rear wheel is the only circumstance where laying a bike down is permissible, other than in a slide-crash. Laying it down just because you aren’t riding it at the moment is an invitation for someone to trip over it, or back a motor vehicle over it, maybe even you. And a field full of tipped-over bicycles just looks messy. Gideon would be appalled.