Zensō
Major Contributor
Well, I’m well past the point of needing to race my friends to the coffee shop, and I don’t want to scratch up that beautiful paint, so…Still don't like kick stands On a city bike I just lean appropriately.....
Seriously though, back in the late 90‘s and early 2000’s I ran a popular cycling website that focused on transportation, city, cargo, and folding bikes. We reviewed well over 100 bikes over a 5-year period and for those types of bikes heavy duty kickstands were standard fare. It’s a totally different world than the normal fitness/recreation bicycle use that dominates here in North America.