(Submitter)

It makes me think that we ought to retire the phrase "reinvent the wheel". There's lots of different kinds of wheels and it doesn't seem crazy that you would need to make a new kind. And when people do make new kinds of wheel, they generally meet some minimum bar of worthiness (rather than being say, square).

But I've never seen any improvement to the classic Sheffield stand, save possibly for the sub-variety with the extra bar underneath. Yet industrial designers insist on inflicting their patently inferior "innovations" onto long-suffering cyclists. Especially irksome when it happens in my own city of ... Sheffield! So maybe we should say "reinvent the Sheffield stand" :)