{"id":3968,"date":"2009-10-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-15T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T21:54:16","slug":"pletscher-two-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/pletscher-two-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Pletscher Two-Legged Kickstand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the need for a two-legged kickstand on a large tandem is fairly obvious, it&#8217;s not as clear why you&#8217;d need one for smaller bikes &#8212; until you start riding with children aboard. Whether you&#8217;re using a front-mounted <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/weeride-kangaro\/\">Kangaroo WeeRide<\/a> or a traditional rear-mounted child seat, preventing the bike from falling over when a child is strapped into the seat is a serious safety concern.<\/p>\n<p>I first saw this Pletscher kickstand about seven years ago, when it came on our <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/bike-friday\/\">Bike Friday<\/a> Family Triple. It&#8217;s an aluminum kickstand with two legs; the second pivots via a cam mechanism, so that it stows alongside the first leg. Made in Switzerland, it&#8217;s a cool piece of hardware for the folding design alone. Stowed, it looks like a standard Greenfield kickstand, with an extra leg.<\/p>\n<p>The double-legged stand makes a big or heavily loaded bike far more stable when you dismount, and it can also double as a makeshift workstand for back-end fixes, as it lifts the rear wheel off the ground. We now have two bikes outfitted with this kickstand, and with our youngest still 17 months old, we&#8217;re considering a third.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice the stability for bikes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10206,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}