| p.s. Any LBS owner/ manager who has replaced a damaged frame clamped by
| an employee would respond in exactly the same way.
30 years ago, a shop down the street thought it would be cool to install a
pneumatic stand. You stepped on a floor pedal and the jaws automatically
smashed, er I mean clamped, the tube. We saw a *lot* of bikes coming in the
door with two parallel crimp marks on the seat tubes. :>)
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
"A Muzi" <
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news:
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| >> "Maple Tree" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
| >> | I own a Trek carbon fibre road bike, what would be the best bike
stand
| >> to purchase for doing repairs on my bike and washing it.
|
| > "Mike Jacoubowsky" <
[email protected]> wrote
| >> It doesn't matter whether you have a high-quality bike made of steel,
| >> aluminum, ti or carbon. You do *not* clamp the frame. You clamp the
| >> seatpost. And if you've got a seatpost that's too fragile to clamp, you
| >> have
| >> a cheapie seatpost of the correct size and use that in the frame when
it's
| >> time to work on it.
|
| Maple Tree wrote:
| > I have a carbon seat post, what I want is a suggestion for the best bike
| > stand designed for the new carbon fibre bikes. They do exist.
|
| Mike makes a good point. Work and display stands either clamp, and
| modern bike frames don't like that at all, even the round section ones,
| or cradle, which can scratch or shift around during cleaning or other
| manipulations. Hanging the bike by seat and bars may be innocuous.
|
| As Mike wrote, get a clamping stand and change out the post when you
| clamp that post in it.
|
| p.s. Any LBS owner/ manager who has replaced a damaged frame clamped by
| an employee would respond in exactly the same way.
| --
| Andrew Muzi
| <www.yellowjersey.org/>
| Open every day since 1 April, 1971
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