Pro Connect Prop stand

[tillson]

Whilst cleaning my bike (Pro Connect) this lovely afternoon I have just snapped the prop stand whilst wheeling it backwards through a doorway with the stand down. Idiotic thing to do I know. This is very annoying as the stand was a useful feature and I want to replace it ASAP.

It is manufactured by a company called Pletscher and has ESGE written on it. I have typed this info into Google and it returns SJS Cycles £12.99. Unfortunately, their site lists them as no longer stocked and it looks like they won’t be having anymore in. The rest of the Google returns are meaningless.

Does anyone know where I can get one from or suggest an alternative? It mounts via two bolt holes which pick up two threaded holes in the frame near to the rear wheel mounting lugs. The holes are spaced 18 mm apart (measured with an old boxwood ruler!). I would like to utilise this mount as it makes for a neat installation. I assume that this stand isn’t unique to the Kalkhoff frame????

Any help in sourcing a replacement would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Tom

 

[flecc]

50cycles have supplied a replacement previously when an Agattu owner snapped one, so they may be the best source. Both these Kalkhoffs use the similar stand.

50cycles contact page
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[Danny-K]

It is manufactured by a company called Pletscher and has ESGE written on it. I have typed this info into Google and it returns SJS Cycles £12.99. Unfortunately...

ESGE - a top notch brand. Pure quality; so how come it snapped so easily?

My ESGE mudguards, (on the Thorn, now re-branded as SKS mudguards), are rated as one of the best money can buy, and I'm well happy with them, unlike the impostors fitted to the Salisbury. In all the magazine run, bicycle mudguard comparison tests, ESGE or rather SKS guards, have been recommended favourably - and have done so for years. Still, that's their m/guards and not the prop stands.

Shame if you end up fitting an inferior stand, although as it snapped you're probably not that impressed with it anyway.

Flecc's suggestion is the best route - let 50 cycles supply you a replacement - you might even get it as a free replacement if you're lucky.

 

[musicbooks]

Whilst cleaning my bike (Pro Connect) this lovely afternoon I have just snapped the prop stand whilst wheeling it backwards through a doorway with the stand down. Idiotic thing to do I know. This is very annoying as the stand was a useful feature and I want to replace it ASAP.

It is manufactured by a company called Pletscher and has ESGE written on it. I have typed this info into Google and it returns SJS Cycles £12.99. Unfortunately, their site lists them as no longer stocked and it looks like they won’t be having anymore in. The rest of the Google returns are meaningless.

Does anyone know where I can get one from or suggest an alternative? It mounts via two bolt holes which pick up two threaded holes in the frame near to the rear wheel mounting lugs. The holes are spaced 18 mm apart (measured with an old boxwood ruler!). I would like to utilise this mount as it makes for a neat installation. I assume that this stand isn’t unique to the Kalkhoff frame????

Any help in sourcing a replacement would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Tom

Hi Tom,
50c replaced my stand with a stronger version (for free)

BW
musicbooks

 

[essexman]

yeah they replaced mine when it broke.

 

[Mussels]

eBay had several when I was looking for one.

 

[tillson]

Thanks very much chaps!

I can see that I will need to talk very nicely indeed to those decent fellows at 50 Cycles. All gentlemen to the last in my experience.

(I’ll give it 24 hours before ringing them so they have had a chance to read my brazen creeping.)

 

[Danny-K]

Thanks very much chaps!

I can see that I will need to talk very nicely indeed to those decent fellows at 50 Cycles. All gentlemen to the last in my experience.

(I’ll give it 24 hours before ringing them so they have had a chance to read my brazen creeping.)

Tee hee! Yeah warm them up first a bit. And don't forget to start off by praising the the bike and how reliable it's been - up until now - before launching into your complaint.

 

[flecc]

ESGE - a top notch brand. Pure quality; so how come it snapped so easily?

The ESGE stand fitted to the Kalkhoffs bolts onto a plate welded onto the lower rear A frame tube. If the stand was too strong and was seriously forced, the alloy frame tubing could buckle or split, so there's a degree of sacrificial design in the stand to protect against that much more serious event.

I know of another make and model of e-bike where the stand is extremely strong and one owner suffered a split open frame tube instead, a disaster none of us would want.
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[lectureral]

The stand on my Raleigh Leicester E (Kalkhoff clone) broke today as well - I shall see if I can get a replacement under warranty.

 

[Fecn]

I've broken the stand on my Agattu twice and 50cycles replaced it both times under warranty without any kind of fuss. The second time, I didn't even ask for a replacement.. I merely emailed to ask if they knew of a higher quality stand I could buy instead - They didn't and sent me a replacement anyway.

I think that the stand could do with being a little longer on the large frame agattu as there's quite a lean to the bike which puts a lot of weight on the stand.

 

[wotwozere]

Hi

I always lean on my stand and it is fine. Sometime i carry 1 pannier with a week of shopping and the other full of beer and it stands why i buy my chips and gravy from the chippie.

thx

Bob