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

[Joe Bob]

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....

[pete3799]

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

[Jagshund]

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

[Joe Bob]

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.

[TimT]

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...

[Joe Bob]

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

[Baz]

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

[Joe Bob]

Yeah...those would do...

[porsche4life]

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

[TimT]

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 ...

[krichard]

Same idea was recently funded on kickstarter

Spokebug - Toynbee Carriage Co.

[Flieger]

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

[Joe Bob]

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.....

[porsche4life]

Spokebug looks like a better solution....

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

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.....

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

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

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.....

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....

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

I have a friend that has a long established bike shop.

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

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Spokebug looks like a better solution....

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

[Joe Bob]

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.

[Flieger]

I like the bungee cord idea.