Originally Posted by
Jeff Neese
I'll just throw this out there. In all my years and miles of touring, I've never stopped somewhere that I didn't have something to lean it up against - a tree, a picnic table, the side of a building, something. Never once. Standing your bike up in the middle of nowhere is for picture-taking purposes only. Do you really need a kickstand?
Yeah, I admit that I wanted to take a photo where there was nothing to lean the bike against.
There were a few poles on the sides of the road to tell the snow plow drivers where the road was, but they were not strong enough to hold up a bike.
