short distance pubcruiser, yes
midrange commuter, yes.
longrange light tourer, yes, but it is basically useless and will probably come off soon.
tandem (this bike sounded like a good idea at the time), no.

none of my bikes have kickstands.

i'm one of the cool kids. :P

That's why I took off my training wheels, too.

http://www.wonkette.com/images/2006/...g%20wheels.jpg

A kickstand does make since. I have watched many people ride.... for example, a few weekends ago, a group of riders got together and one of my firends just spent 5 grand on a bike. I leaned it up against his car to change his shoes and it fell over. He was freaking out.

I like these:

http://www.click-stand.com/Measuring...ick-Stand.html

You might want to put them back on.

I use to care about what people thought of me and my bikes. Now I have kickstands on all of them.

However, I wouldn't put one on a nice old Italian road bike if I ever pick one up again.

Yes, on all the utility/commuter bikes, but not on the recreational bikes.

I use the rear triangle mounted ones, which are way more stable than the ones that mount at the chainstay bridge.

I've got one. Matter fact, I'm on the second one- first one failed after the bolt sheared off while parking :(. This one is starting to get a little wonky on me (have to nudge it back into place) and thinking about removing it before it has a chance to fail on me at the most inopportune time.

I really have no idea why people have kickstands for parking. I understand the utility otherwise. In fact, I used the kickstand on my wife's bike just the other day while getting all the bikes on the car rack.

I went to a bike advocacy meeting a while back, and there was a bike next to the rack on a kickstand. It was in the way, any breeze could have knocked it over, I had to work around it to get my bike in the rack. It made no sense since this is a reasonably high-theft area and it was only locked to itself. I was really curious who at the meeting was that nuts, but was afraid to ask.

When I worked in a bike shop, it always seemed like a good idea to have a few bikes on kickstands until one of them got bumped and they all went over.

I used to have one. Then it broke and I've never gotten around to replacing it. Don't usually miss it - there's usually a wall or a tree or something around that I can lean my bike on.

In city riding, I can't see the point of a kickstand. I never, ever, ever, ever leave my bikes anywhere without locking them. The lock and the post I've locked it to keeps it from falling down. Kickstands are superfluous.

Don't believe me? This is my living room:
http://www.brucew.com/images/bikefor...in-out-800.jpg
I never, ever, ever, ever leave my bikes anywhere without locking them. Even in my own living room.

Superfluous? Don't you mean Redundant? A kickstand would be superfluous if we were talking about, say, bicycle bells. But since you were referring to an alternative way of standing a bicycle up, the better term would be "redundant". Geeeez. :D

No kickstand for me -- I've really never even thought about it.

My current bike has one. It came with the bike. My previous bike didn't.

I'm ambivalent about them. I won't pay to put one on a bike that doesn't have one nor bother to remove it from one that does. If I have it I will use it. If not I'll figure it out.

Yep, I have it on my Specialized commuter and love it. I don't like having the bike fall over when it's against a wall. It helps when I'm trying to load groceries and my son into the trailer.

The bike I have came with one when I bought it, but when I put the fenders on I took it off. And broke it.

I kinda wish it was still on; it came in handy more than I thought.

Nope.

superfluous

adjective

1. being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
2. unnecessary or needless.
3. Obsolete. possessing or spending more than enough or necessary; extravagant.

Citation: Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/superfluous (accessed: December 16, 2011).

You could make an argument for definition one, but definition two is what I was going for.

Score one for The Librarian! :thumb:

They can come in handy but I wouldn't trust a kickstand alone to keep my bike right side up for very long anywhere outdoors.

I've got a kickstand on my Varsity...

If my 35 year old kickstand can hold up my 40lb bike, then I'm sure any kickstand can hold up some of these carbon and aluminum bikes that you all have.

tsl: Where did you get the racks for your bikes? We just moved into an apartment and I have to hang my bikes. I was thinking of just J hooks. hooked to the ceiling.

I love this forum! :)

They don't work very well with lots of weight high up. I occasionally mount an old wooden crate to my rear rack, and when it's loaded the bike is a bit wobbly on the kickstand. I'd like a two-legged one that folds out and lifts the rear wheel, like some scooters have.

Excactly!!:thumb: You know, I once knew a Librarian.

Those are the Saris Locking Bike Trac, part of the commercial storage line from Saris. They're $80 MSRP and must be ordered through an LBS that has a direct account with Saris. They are not available through standard distribution (QBP, BTI, etc).

I like them for the ¾" solid steel locking loop. Slightly less expensive is the Cable Locking Bike Trac which uses a cable instead of the solid steel loop.

The plain old Bike Trac has no provisions for locking, are only $40 MSRP and are available through standard distribution. They keep your wheels off the wall.

Each of my Locking Bike Tracs are attached to the lath and plaster walls using six ¼" toggle bolts. I used that many, not because of weight, but to make them harder for a thief to pry off the walls.

Yes, my landlord knows they're there. I asked him before I moved in, and he helped me install them after I drilled into a buried junction box (which had no cover on it to begin with). I ask for assistance with these things when sparks fly and the lights go out. But that's just me…