Who on the list is a backyard fabricator of 'doohickies'?
 

I have a friend that has a long established bike shop. I called him about a doohickey I had back in the 80s. It was made by Rhode Gear, RG got bought out by Yakima and dropped about 50% of the inventory. The item is NLA.

My friend says that it was a big seller. Would prolly retail for $25 bucks....

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Enlighten me.......what exactly does this doohickey do?

Duh . . . you stick a playing card to it and pedal around pretending you're on a motorcycle.

Keeps the front wheel from rolling, keeps the handle bars from twisting and allows you to lean a nice bike up against a wall w/o it rolling away and falling down.

Most high end road and mountain bikes don't have a traditional kick stand.

You could make something like you pictured using split collars and some spring steel..

Split collars

if the holes you drill in the collar are not in the same plane you could get that kick stand thingy to snap up, or down...

Good idea if they were light weight nylon and a LOT cheaper.

Aha....finally found an application for those smallest of small bungee cords you always get in the variety packs....tada!

Yeah...those would do...;)

Exactly Baz... Just use a ball bungee like you can get at HF....

They do make nylon spit collars, $14 each is a hard starting point to sell something that will require some other fabrication to work at $25..

I bet if you bought in bulk the price point drops way below $14 fir the split collars

The aluminum collars are $4 ...

Same idea was recently funded on kickstarter
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1341179187.jpg
Spokebug - Toynbee Carriage Co.

That is not as good as the one Joe Bob posted. That one does not keep the front fork from turning.

Yeah, but the handle bars would still turn and I would hate to have the thingy accidentally deploy when I was doing a mas rapido descent.....

Spokebug looks like a better solution....

Yeah. Looking at it in the spokes makes me nervous.

If either deploys during mas rapido descent you are muy, muy fuched..... The spokes would probably just snap the spokebug off, whereas your deal has just locked out the steering....

This is where you are wrong. You don't have any friends.

Why? And why do you have an ellipsis immediately before or after a period?

Wouldn't happen as the wheel turns upwards toward the head set and the spring loaded stop is already deployed in that direction.

If'n yer frum someplace stoopid, and instalate it upside down...then yeah.....ya'll be haeffen a problemo.

I like the bungee cord idea.

Yer right....I have a lot curmudgeons like you.....:eek:

'Cause he's still thinkin' about how the rest of the sentence will read.

Keep fergitting...Zeke be a curmudge AND a grammar Nazi.....

Either way it will still be down there in the way getting bound up.... Like I said, the spokebug is tiny enough it'll probably just get mangled up if it deploys....

The pole should be purchased before the doohickey. Here's one on sale for just $79.95. It is polished chrome for comfort. Might be a good place to hang your bike when your wife isn't on it.

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To piss off nit picking grammar ninnies like you...............


And because I don't count, just hit the... a few times....

From that photo, the spokebug looks to be on the same order of strength as the spokes, and more rigid. The other doohickey will be flung out of the way by the tire and will do much less damage hitting a rubber tire.

Then there is the issue that the spokebug doesn't make as good of a stand as the doohickey.

No thanks. I prefer to buy local and support fellow PPOT members. I get my stripper poles from Kevin P73. ;)

FYI, the doohickey is called a 'Flick Stand'.....if you care.

On the pole dancing thing? I prefer to rent....both the equipment and the meat bag.

Rhode Gear called them "Flickstands"

25 bucks? Seems high. Real high.

That was an estimate based on what they sold for and inflation of the USD since I last saw them sold. Cool yer rockets there.....;)

I noodled this a year ago. conclusion was none of the people I ride with would attach that to their bike.

doesn't address the bars turning, but something like a rubber band on your bars that you could stretch out and attach to your front brake handle to lock up front wheel.

Lots of different frame tube sizes and shapes now too.

Again: Bungee cord through the spokes to the frame...

where you going to store bungee? my band idea stays on the bars when not in use. lighter and cheapee than a bungee. :-)

Dude, a bungee is a rubber band, just a better one. You can loop it through under the seat. Plus it gets the job done.

It weighs a lot less than a water bottle. But then I ride a steel rigid or else an old alu mountainbike. So a little weight doesn't scare me.

What you need here is something that will hold and prop up the bike when you park it and the same thing can be used to beat dogs when riding.

Bungee cord nunchucks?

Don't patent that idea just yet. One time use. You're in trouble if there are 2 dogs. :)

Bungee cord crossbow? sling a quiver of arrows under the top tube?