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Click-Stand's Kryptonite.

I am very lucky to have this video. A customer set up her camera to video her friend, and happened to catch the moment her bike toppled and broke her Click-Stand. I watched this over and over, trying to discern what happened. A log truck rumbles by, her front wheel pivots over rather abruptly, the wheel moves toward the ditch, and the Click-Stand collapses.

"Wheel Flop"  -  With a heavy handlebar bag, wheel flop shifts some weight from the wheels to the Click-Stand. The jarring action can, on its own bend or break a Click-Stand, but it isn't common.

"Failing to engage the front brake"  -  In this case, the wheel flop didn't break her Click-Stand. By pivoting her front wheel was able to roll to the right, the near total weight of her gear bore down on the Click-Stand, and it was toast. You can tell that her front brake was not engaged if you look for the spoke reflector rotating by in the last moments.

A Click-Stand, contacting above the center of gravity, bears a small portion of a bicycle's total weight. This is why a 100 gram Max Click-Stand supports a 100 pound bike. Still, by nature, a Click-Stand is a compromise of strength versus weight & portability. This compromise lends each model, Mini, Max, and Mondo, a practical limitation. Each supports an ever increasingly heavier bike, ending with a Mondo, which essentially, if properly employed,will support any bike. Hopefully you noticed how I slipped "if properly employed" in there. Which brings us to the topic of this page. Click-Stand Kryptonite, or the three most common ways to break a Click-Stand.

 ~  Sinking in soft soil.

 ~  Failing to engage the front brake.

 ~  Wheel "flop"