In the bad old days when bikes were designed for real use in the real world, the mudguard stays were engineered to swivel down and hold front or rear wheel off the ground.
( normally in conjunction with the centre stand)
You might want to re-invent this, as mentioning the possibility of a puncture does not sell bikes to those with unrealistic expectations of 100,000 miles with no maintenance. Very odd as most bikes can barely manage three hours between garage stops.
Once I had a puncture in a hire car on the motorway, the car had no jack. so I reversed up the far end of a taperred crash barrier after a bridge, and changed the wheel. (rear wheel puncture).
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