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Do I really need to pamper myself with a stand?
Almost all jobs are easier in a repair stand. It also a lot harder to knock over the bike in a repair stand, which is otherwise quite easy to when reaching for tools with the bike upside down on the ...
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Do I really need to pamper myself with a stand?
Do I need to pamper myself with a stand?.
I'd like to argue with the word "pamper".
It's not pampering to have the right tool for a given job. The fact that you have soldiered on without a stand and ...
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How to clamp an e-bike on a repair stand?
It's safe for the bike to clamp the seatpost, even on the heaviest bikes. The only thing to potentially be paranoid about is that the seatpost is clamped into the bike securely enough that the bike ...
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Do I really need to pamper myself with a stand?
There are a couple of problems with working on a bike upside-down. The two major ones:
The bike is unstable. This depends to a degree on the handlebar and seat, the angle of the head tube and other ...
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Bicycle Repair Stand Solutions for bikes with a Dropper style seatpost
In my opinion the dust hasn't really settled on what the best practice is for putting bikes with droppers in the stand. But I work on them frequently and here's what I do:
Never clamp the upper with ...
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Do I really need to pamper myself with a stand?
Three big advantages of a bicycle work stand, IMHO:
The bike can't fall over.
Raising the bike up to a height where where it's more comfortable to work on it - especially areas at the bottom of the ...
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Does tilting the bike on a repair stand so the fork is vertical impede any repairs?
How your bike is positioned in a work stand should depend on the type of work you are going to perform.
Much of the time it seems more convenient to have the bike in the stand so it is titled forward ...
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Do I really need to pamper myself with a stand?
I want to challenge the assumption that bikes wobble in work stands, or that this causes a problem for the mechanic. If you're assuming that a cheap stand is less stable than a posh one, I haven't ...
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Alternatives to buying a repair stand?
It may be possible to improvise a stand with PVC pipe. A quick websearch brought up this instructable (http://www.instructables.com/id/PVC-Bike-Repair-Stand/) but there are many more designs. PVC ...
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Is it possible to prove that applied forces to a top tube are worse than a seatpost when using a repair stand clamp?
With all the math in the world this can't be proved generically because we don't know anything other than the top tube is carbon. It being carbon says nothing about wall thickness, shape, or ...
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How to clamp an e-bike on a repair stand?
The battery is often easily removable and very heavy. There is no reason for keeping it in the slot when you are working on a bicycle. This would also shift the center of mass hopefully to the better ...
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How to clamp an e-bike on a repair stand?
The seatpost is rated to hold the weight of a rider, which will just-about always outweigh the bike. Getting the ebike up onto the stand and clamped can be a challenge though.
You might need to angle ...
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Bicycle Repair Stand Solutions for bikes with a Dropper style seatpost
My work stand is based on an old car rear rack, and supports the frame under the toptube, just in front of the seat tube and near the headset. I use the original plastic brackets with straps to hold ...
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Cheap solution to vertical bicycle stand
Free wood from pallets could easily be fashioned into racks that can be fastened to the wall with butterfly bolts. Also, consider looking for solutions at http://www.bikehacks.com/
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Bicycle Repair Stand Solutions for bikes with a Dropper style seatpost
Thule is offering Bike Frame Adapters (Thule 982) for their Transport Solutions, i guess these can be also used to clamp the bike in a stand?
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Bicycle Repair Stand Solutions for bikes with a Dropper style seatpost
There are work stands that hold the bike by the bottom bracket - refer this question
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Alternatives to buying a repair stand?
Take a lighting or speaker tripod/stand and mount a bar on it. Onto that bar mount two pipe brackets on it with the movable part removed. The pipe brackets should have rubber pads in them to prevent ...
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Alternatives to buying a repair stand?
A repair stand isn't necessary. Wheel changes are bit harder, but hey, nearly every one of us has removed a wheel due to puncture on the road so you can change a wheel. Chain cleaning, chain changing ...
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Alternatives to buying a repair stand?
If you already have a bike carrier that attaches to a trailer hook, you can also consider a trailer hook to mount on a wall and then mount your bike carrier on it.
It won't replace a true stand, but ...
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Cheap solution to vertical bicycle stand
We have a number of bikes hanging in the garage by their front wheels. They are against a wall so that they don't swing about. We just have eye hooks screwed into the roof with a velcro strap around ...
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Cheap solution to vertical bicycle stand
These hooks work well enough. Downside is they have to be into a wall-stud, and the bike pokes out from the wall not hanging flat beside the wall. You also want something between the bottom wheel ...
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Bicycle Repair Stand Solutions for bikes with a Dropper style seatpost
The main problem with clamping a dropper post by its retractable part in a repair stand: if the claw is dirty it may scratch the moving part of the post. Scratches will then travel back and forth ...
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Do I really need to pamper myself with a stand?
Here are two other stands which work and don't cost silly money. Both are really "storage" stands not workstands, but they cost under $15 NZ each.
First is a front wheel support that fits 29" and ...
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Does tilting the bike on a repair stand so the fork is vertical impede any repairs?
There is yet another nuance to this issue. By hoisting an MTB from a dropper post but letting it dangle, you avoid introducing bending to the post. The post (and bike) are then held only by friction ...
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Does tilting the bike on a repair stand so the fork is vertical impede any repairs?
The rare times I use a workstand like this, I aim to get the part I'm working on at a comfortable height.
So I'm normally doing transmission stuff, I want the rear axle somewhere between waist and ...
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Bicycle Repair Stand Solutions for bikes with a Dropper style seatpost
If I have no other option I will clamp on the seat collar. I avoid clamping on the stanchion of the dropper as not to pull it past the furtherest extension, especially when working on a highly torqued ...
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Cheap solution to vertical bicycle stand
Have a look for the "clug bike clip".
This is a small clip designed to hold your bike in place against the wall.
http://www.getclug.com/
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Alternatives to buying a repair stand?
I have been using this stand to service my bike and storing it too;
They are very cheap, at around 20 MYR (5 USD).
You could start with using this first and if needed, go get an actual bike service ...
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Alternatives to buying a repair stand?
I got an idea of making a pretty good repair stand from this youtube video.
Basically you take a cheap front hub and attach it to a small saw horse or builder's stand. ...
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