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Oh no! Kickstands are just extra useless weight. You can always lean your bike up against something, or even prop the pedals on a curb. I just don't want the big kids to make fun of you guys. Hardly anyone in the Tour de France uses kickstands. :D

Or you could carry it in a small backpack.

You're lucky to live there. I just spent some time around Princeton a few months ago. My brother lives there. It's nice.

Ha ha. I was thinking about an attached balloon that rubs against the spokes so it will sound like a real motorcycle, and maybe a banana seat (but they must be collectors items by now)!

Put in my credit card info - and got this error message: "This offer may no longer be available..." Maybe I can still find it someplace...

Thanks, Guy. That's got to be it. I'll buy it and post it on here if I can.

Good to see those photos of the Pines. I remember seeing ribbons on trees down there too. Maybe off the road motorcyclists marking a route?

Interesting, on NY fire towers, including misconceptions, like my own. I thought that fire towers were no longer used. I remember climbing one in the Catskills way back in the 1960's and chatting with the friendly tower man who had majored in forestry in college...

I think that John McPhee's book is great, but my original introduction to the Pine Barrens came by way of a fascinating NY Times travel article back in the 1960's, about those "windswept pines". That's what first got me to go down there and explore the place and fall in love with it. I thought...

Really interesting!

Nah, I don't know nuthin about nuthin. I never saw that mug before, see.

I knew it! You've been ogling kickstands! O, the shame of it! :D

One of my all time best bikes was a c. 1980 Specialized Expedition. I changed it from a 10 speed to a 5 speed by removing the front derailleur. Then I stoopidly sold it to a friend of mine who still rides it regularly. I tied and soldered the spokes, an old 19th century technique, and when I...

Please don't buy a kickstand.

Isn't self defense illegal in New Jersey?

I thought all the fire towers had been shut down. I was last there in 1982. As I recall it was not manned even then.

Yeah, me too, in my '69 Super beetle which made it to 300,000 miles, much of that being city - and also Pine Barrens - driving. The engine and transmission were still great, but rust was destroying it. The Beetle was much better in the Barrens, being light weight and narrow and having excellent...

Uh oh, that sounds too much like lawyerspeak!

I think that was the getaway car.

I agree! I like good bicycle machinery and I hate those Walmart things, pretty colours but crap. "... a used Trek" The name on bikes means little. It all depends of what kind of frame and components they are using, tho surely something like Trek would be much better on the average than bozo...