Finally compared a $15 kickstand to the $60 name brand one side by side on my bike build

The cheap one wobbled loose after 3 rides in San Salvador traffic, while the expensive one held solid through potholes and cobblestones, so now I'm wondering if anyone else has found a mid-range kickstand that actually lasts?

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andrewt4112d ago

Ngl, $15 for a kickstand in a place like San Salvador traffic is basically asking for trouble. Honestly, potholes and cobblestones will wreck anything cheap in no time. Tbh, Ive seen people go through three of those budget stands in a month, and they just end up spending more in the long run.

ericp6712d ago

Started dabbling with a cheap kickstand myself last year, but it was less about the price and more about how the thing just bent weird after a couple weeks of my daily commute. I ended up using a plastic zip tie to kind of jury-rig it back into place for a while, which was honestly janky but worked for like a month. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like a lot of these mid-range ones are secretly just the same cheap model with a fancier logo slapped on. I've had better luck just finding a used brand-name one off a local bike shop's parts bin, even if it's a little scratched up. Sometimes the old hardware from a decade ago is built way tougher than anything new under forty bucks.