Upon visual inspection of my 2012 Sam Hillborne and my wife's 2012 Betty Foy, both Taiwanese built, both appear to have the "unstout" plate. Not a term I ever thought would ever be associated with anything Rivendell.
Before removing my single legged kickstand, I experimented this week and pretended it wasn't there. What I found is that kickstands are very very convenient. It'll take a little getting use to, especially loading and unloading, but the worse was on the two occasions I took my bike into a business. Neither of these places mind me bringing the bike inside but they prefer I leave the bike at Customer Service and not wheel it around the store. On both occasions I deployed the kickstand because I felt bad leaning it up against their counter, wall, display etc. and possibly damaging something. Funny thing is I've been riding bikes my whole life and other than briefly decades ago never had a kickstand. Now I'm not sure I can live without it. As of now my plan is to remove the kickstand but I think I'll continue to experiment a bit more. Matt -- 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.
