Atlantis kickstand clearance issue

[der_amerikanische_freund]

Hi all, I have a 2025 Atlantis with a Pletscher single kickstand. I've been running 700x50C tires with no issues but tried on some 29x2.1 yesterday and the kickstand rubbed with the rear tire.

Has anyone had any clearance issues with their kickstands and rear tires?

Is there any particular model that would comfortably clear a 2.25" tire?

Thanks

[Julian Westerhout]

Consider a Click-stand.   https://www.click-stand.com   Not the conventional approach, but fantastic, esp. with loaded bikes -- used them on lots of singles and tandems. Never clearance issues, or mud gathering, etc. 

Or if you really must have a  bolt-on stand IMHO the best is the Ursus Jumbo Evo: 

https://ursuscycling.com/collections/ursus-kickstands/products/ursus-jumbo-evo-double-legged-kickstand

Julian Westerhout

Blomigton, IL 

[Michael Baquerizo]

If you want to NOT buy a new kickstand and continue using yours, you need to do some sanding down of the plate on the kickstand that interacts with the plate on the bike. if i recall correctly, it would be the front left side. you want to sand it so that you can skew it outward and then bolt it down in place. 

i've had this issue with two riv's (a clem and an appaloosa) and managed to fix it on the clem (running 48 switchback hills). didn't bother on the appaloosa because i gave away the double and settled on a single. 

[Mike Rossi]

I know that with the Greenfield stand, I was able to shim it away from the mount so that I could twist it further to the outside. It gave further clearance. I had also thought of grinding off some of the corners of the mount area (of the kickstand) so that I could do the same thing. I’m not sure if this would work with the Pletscher. I never tried that, however, as the shim idea worked good enough for me. Use blue loctite on the bolt to keep it in place, but still check it every now and then.

Mike

On Jul 9, 2025, at 11:21 AM, Julian Westerhout <weste...@gmail.com> wrote:

Consider a Click-stand.   https://www.click-stand.com   Not the conventional approach, but fantastic, esp. with loaded bikes -- used them on lots of singles and tandems. Never clearance issues, or mud gathering, etc. 

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[Laing Conley]

I ovaled (slotted) the hole in the kickstand plate  to allow the kickstand to move to the left. I did this with a round file. I also used the round file to clearance the kickstand a little where it touched the tire. I painted the inside of the kickstand hole to prevent rust. It is invisible below the washer under the bolt holding the kickstand on. This was on my Bombadil. Filing the kickstand to allow it to rotate in the plate did not work for me. 

Laing Conley 

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[der_amerikanische_freund]

Thank you for your recommendations. If I could just clarify a couple of them...

Michael Baquerizo, if I understand correctly, you kind of sand down the corners of the plate to rotate it slightly so that, keeping the kickstand hole centered with the plate, you push out the kickstand leg outwards achieving more clearance from the tire.

Laing, do you mean you ovaled the hole on the frame kickstand plate (not the kickstand's). I guess the frame kickstand plate doesn't affect frame robustness and integrity, ie, I'm not going to break the frame by widening the hole on the plate, am I?

I'm leaning towards trying Michael's solution first, will report back.

[Laing Conley]

Yes, I ovaled the hole in the frame kickstand plate. 

Laing

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[Stephen A]

My apologies, I think I only replied to the author, but for those having this issue. I ended up using the PDW Power Stance kickstand on my recent Atlantis 2025 build.

My mechanic reached out to Riv and this is what he said:
"Chatted with the folks at Rivendell about this and apparently the big double kickstands were tearing off the kickstand plates on the frames, yikes. so they went back to centering the mounting hole, as opposed to having the mounting hole off-center like they had in the past, learning stuff!"

[Dan]

Yikes!

The 2.25” tyres on my Appaloosa gently rub the plestcher single leg kickstand I have installed under hard pedalling. I’m not bothered by it though as it’s really not common and it’s only the kickstand. 

[der_amerikanische_freund]

There must be some slack in the angle of the Pletscher kickstand leg as otherwise I can't understand how Dan only gets light rubbing with his 2.25" tires and I get severe rubbing on my 2.1". I'm assuming the frame kickstand plates on the Appaloosas and Atlantises are the same.

Anyway it seems that lightly filing the kickstand leg is the way to go ...

[der_amerikanische_freund]

Hi, it's just me reporting back. I filed the plate of the kickstand at opposite corners so that I could skew the plate slightly in order to push the kickstand leg away from the rear tire. I initially tried filing the leg but I would have had to rub so much I would have run out of patience and energy...

I attach a photo diagram in case it helps others. in the 'before' photo, the red lines show the original long sides of the kickstand plate, and the green lines the angle at which I filed the corners so that in the 'after' photo I could rotate them until the were parallel with the frame plate.

As said, there must be a lot of inconsistency in the production of these kickstands as others using fatter tires than me have managed to make it work right out of the box.

Thanks

[iamkeith]

I have a Pletscher single-leg kickstand on my first-run Clem, which is similar geometry to the current Atlantis.  Maybe slightly longer chainstays, which would help but, anyway, it rubbed on my 2.4 tires when I first built it up.  I just grabbed the kickstand arm and bent it outward slightly, and haven't had trouble since.  

[Alfonso Saco Díaz]

Hi Keith, 

I did try that before grabbing the file but the arm kind of went back to its original position after a few wheel spins. Maybe I should have bent it harder but then I thought I might damage the spring so I decided against it. Good to know it’s worked for you.

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[Michael Baquerizo]

glad that worked out for you. looks like you did a better job than I did, but with the same effect.

i would only say be sure to locktite it or at least check on it every so often. ive found mine gets loose every so often.