Double Kick Stand, Black

I gave this 5 stars even though I had to modify it before I could use it because the quality is so good. My 26" mountain bike sits a little too high for this stand but it fits the mount like it was made by the OEM. Lengthening the legs is not difficult and has the added benefit that it gives a wider stance and more stability.The lengthening process begins with removing the rubber feet. They are glued on and a moderate twist with pump pliers is all it takes. The solid aluminum legs are tapered at their tips and just slightly smaller than the bore of heavy walled, 1/2" copper water pipe. You can see where I'm going with this, right?I have several large, tapered punches, and one of them has a section that is about the same size and taper as the kickstand leg ends. Deburring the pipe and flaring it with the punch and a hammer, I quickly formed the pipe so that I could get about an inch of frictional insertion onto the aluminum leg. I measured the penetrated depth, added the amount of extention that I wanted and then, added another half inch for good measure. I cut the pipe to length, recording the measurement for the other leg and prepared a second piece of the pipe in the same way.Now here is a little trick I learned long ago. When you heat something circular, the hole gets bigger. So, with a propane torch, and using the pump pliers to hold the cold end, I heated the flared end of the pipe to just past the distance I wanted to drive it onto the aluminum leg. I heated it until it just turned dull red, no more. Then working quickly, I placed the pipe onto the leg and using a medium weight hammer, drove it to my predetermined position. Like I said, the stand is sturdy but not indistructible, so the "driving" is more like authoritative tapping. When cool, the extension is snug and strong.I left the ends of my pipes open, and filed them to a flatish angle. Over time, the copper will wear but so will aluminum and of course, rubber. The copper is easily replaced and if it ever comes loose, just give it a good smack with the hammer, or if you're on the road, a rock.Obviously, this is only one way to extend the legs. You could solder pipe caps onto the ends (probably better to do this before you beat the pee out of them with the hammer), or you could add crutch tips, or whatever. Have fun.Oh yes, the original rubber tips will not fit onto the pipe ends. Remember, they fit the tapered aluminum legs, that fit INSIDE of the copper pipe. One caveat: Be sure to use the thick walled copper pipe, not the thin walled pipe. The outside of the pipe is the same size but the thick wall has a smaller bore. If you don't know what you have on hand, go to your local hardware store or plumbing shop and buy a foot of the more expensive stuff. It'll still probably set you back less than $2.

What a terrible double kickstand. We got two. One for me and one for him. Not once did our bikes stay standing while on this kickstand. We both have beach cruisers. Mine has an oversized basket in which I like to put my purse with water bottle, makeup, and stuff like that. His has a basket on each side of the back wheel. This kickstand just doesn't help our bikes stay standing, anymore than our previous single kickstands. We've wasted our money. Do not buy this. You will regret it. We took our bikes into a bike shop to get the kickstands installed by someone who knew what they were doing (that cost us money), because we really needed this kickstand to work for our week long festival/camping trip. Well, it failed every time. So if we wanted to get a refund we'd have to take the bikes in again to have someone exchange this awful kickstand with our single kickstands, which will cost us time/money. So I don't know that it's worth returning these. I hate wasting my money like this.

The kickstand worked great for a few weeks. After that it started to break down. The kickstand would not lock correctly and would hang loose while it was supposed to "lock" into the up position. I will give the benefit of the doubt and order another one, maybe the first was poorly constructed. When it functions correctly it is a great item. I need a stand that has durability, not one that I need to replace monthly. I will update in a couple of months, or if the same thing happens.

I added this kickstand to my old Schwinn Voyageur, a touring bike, to help stabilize the bike as I use it for running errands in the city and loading up my son on his Weehoo trail a bike, as the previous single leg stand was a tad short and just plain unreliable. This one won out based on simplicity, no folding legs like a double Pletscher, and has a light, crisp actuation to it. It's adjustable height, with three different settings where you can unbolt/bolt in the legs at the appropriate height. Initially, the highest setting put the front of my 27" wheeled bike too high in the air, so I adjusted it to the middle setting, although even the low setting would keep the front wheel off the ground - I was hitting the cranks on the lowest setting, so I just went up a bit, rather than diagnosing.Stability is good with the stand deployed and for most normal tasks, like loading up panniers for a commute or shopping, don't disturb the bike. I did find that I still have to be careful (but also much LESS careful) when I am loading up my son in the Weehoo - I think that's simply an issue of the leverage and weight of the trailer, and also probably related a bit to my seatpost being 0.2 mm shy of what the shim on the connector is set up for. It's still a big, big improvement.As a final note, I highly recommend buying a wheel stabilizer, like the Velo Orange model, to go with this type of stand - without it, your front wheel (and handlebars) can fold over when you raise the front wheel, which can either be tippy, or can, depending on the height, hit your top tube and scratch it. It's not a big deal, but an add on wheel stabilizer is a small investment, with big dividends.