Workstand

Fingers Mcginty

Can any of you lads recommend a good quality stand for performing routine cleaning/maintenance on my road bike? Something that's gonna last. 😊

benneca1

Have look on chain reaction at park tools stands. I have one and like it. One bit of advice if you are like me and leave allen keys pliers ete etc out of your hand and cannot find them again get a tray it keeps everything in the same place while you're working

07Lapierre

+1 for Park Tool Stands.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/park-tool-home-mechanic-repair-stand-pcs9/rp-prod5787

crosstownk

Keep an eye out for the next Lidl cycling offers. They usually do a work stand for €30/35(?) and it's a decent job. Sturdy and will last. Magnetic tool tray included.

For value, it's a hard one to beat.

Lumen

07Lapierre wrote: »

+1 for Park Tool Stands.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/park-tool-home-mechanic-repair-stand-pcs9/rp-prod5787

-1. Had one. Not a lovely thing.

Now I have this:

Feedback Sports Sprint Work Stand
http://www.bike24.com/p288685.html

It is a lovely thing.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I have a Bike Hut work stand that I got in Halfirds last year on sale for €50. It's very good, strong and sturdy with good clamps and its telescopic so folds up very neat.

Fingers Mcginty

Thanks lads I got sorted. Ordered one today. Park tool PCS10

LollipopJimmy

benneca1 wrote: »

Have look on chain reaction at park tools stands. I have one and like it. One bit of advice if you are like me and leave allen keys pliers ete etc out of your hand and cannot find them again get a tray it keeps everything in the same place while you're working

Tools go back in their place in the toolbox. Name them too tgat way if your 3/8 ratchet is missing you can be all like 'where the hell is Mary?'
My days of working on cars coming out here

smacl

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Tools go back in their place in the toolbox. Name them too tgat way if your 3/8 ratchet is missing you can be all like 'where the hell is Mary?'
My days of working on cars coming out here

Just wait until you marry a girl called Mary and it all goes tits up.... :pac:

markusz

got this and its grand.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BICYCLE-BIKE-CYCLE-REPAIR-MAINTENANCE-STAND-WALL-FLOOR-OR-BENCH-MOUNTED-HAND-/171259336733?ssPageName=ADME:L:OC:IE:3160

markusz

markusz wrote: »

got this and its grand.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BICYCLE-BIKE-CYCLE-REPAIR-MAINTENANCE-STAND-WALL-FLOOR-OR-BENCH-MOUNTED-HAND-/171259336733?ssPageName=ADME:L:OC:IE:3160

my bad.. all out of stock

JBokeh

Pro Tip, Don't lean it up against the passenger side of your van while loading it up, You'll forget about it and it will go under the wheel when you drive away,

I'm now on my second work stand,an Aldi one which works quite well even for heavy mountain bikes, handy for hoisting up the bike very high to do internal routing with out all the usual yoga that comes with trying to peer through the holes in the frame

cdaly_

I have this X-Tools Workshop Prep Stand. Very handy and neat to store, easy to mount the bike and no stand in the way as you walk around the bike but gets in the way of routing cables under the BB.


I also carried it home from work on the bike, cable-tied to the top tube...

The extra bottle cage under the down tube on my Thorn snags on it though so I now also have a Lidl stand which takes up more room and requires more setup effort...

tomasrojo

cdaly_ wrote: »

I have this X-Tools Workshop Prep Stand. Very handy and neat to store, easy to mount the bike and no stand in the way as you walk around the bike but gets in the way of routing cables under the BB.

I have one very similar. As you say, routing cables is cumbersome, and it also slightly presses on the gear cables when the restraint is tightened, so checking gear changes sometimes involves rocking the bike on the stand to release the cable. Other than that it's fine.