My own practice with kickstands is to put them on beaters and leave them off "nice" bikes; the Sam Hill was somewhat in between. With the former, I've happily "indented" the stays where the clamps bite down and thought that it helped keeps the stand from rotating. That said, I've never had a problem (besides denting the stays) with a kickstand mount damaging a tube, and this after several years of loading and careless use; all of which says something about the strength of thick wall, pot metal frames.
Of course, I've also cheerfully more than once used a hammer to reshape the right chainstay to accommodate a crankset I wanted to use. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
