Cycle Stands? Do You Use One?

[Adrian]

hey this is for my A2 produst design,

im making i cycle stand that can fit all types of bike as the problem iv had with the stands available is that most of them are made to grip onto the seat tubes, which trials bikes dont have. and if you have something like a GU or most other low slung bikes you cant make them fix to any other part of the bike

also if you get a really light weight carbon bike and wack a clamp on the tubing and the apply force to tighten something it can damage the tubing, especially on the really thin ones

i know you also get the ones that hold the bike under the downtube abd bb but they tend not to be that sturdy or hold the bike that tight so it moves when you put some decent force into tightening something.

my design will hopefully be something like this design but much better

so im putting this pole up to see what trials riders think, and any other problems you have would be greatly appreciated as they will all go in my research section.

also any pictures of broken stands would be cool.

thanks guys

if you think iv missed a relavent question please say

downtube/bottom bracket style

tube clamping style

[Luke Rainbird]

There's been a whole host of topics much like this one from other A-level students in the past

If you have a bit of a root around in the forum attic you'll likely haul up a tonne of info that both answers loads of your questions and adds stuff you've not even thought of yet

[Adrian]

ah cool ill have a hunt, but im going to leave this up as it'll look better in my folder as its questions i have made etc

[psycholist]

Unless the stand is ridiculously heavy duty you won't be able to make the recommended torques for tightening BB's and cranks to unless the bike is on the ground. I find the main use I have for a stand is to hold the bike off the ground so the gear indexing can be checked easily. Not really a problem with trials bikes. Fitting wheels should be done on the ground too so you can make sure they get all the way into the dropouts. This is especially true for trials bikes where most of the frames (Pretty much every one I checked, but they were pretty much all Echos) have rear dropouts that aren't parallel, so tightening one side of the hub often lifts it out of the dropout at the other side unless you lean on the bike to push the wheel in.

[Adrian]

i just hate bending over trying to get my wheel in strait and set snail cams up... and you can only see from one angle, and like setting up brakes is soooooo much easier when the bike is on a stand at shoulder height. the way the stand will be design is so that if you put downward force on the bike, e.g tightening a bb or cranks etc it wont move, as the stand is under the bb and down tube, rather then it flexing on some weak flexy arm lol.

basically you have to think of it as this stand is goin to be well thought off, so any problems youve had with weak flexy stands isnt going to be the same with this one, this is the whole point of this project, im correctign the mistakes already made...

cheers for comments

[psycholist]

Sounds good ...

[16 years later]

Hi mate I’m doing the same thing for my GCSE's. I'm making it like the one at tarty down tube bb style, how are you making it different from existing products. Do you have to make it different e.g. adding some thing. I was possible thinking of a motor that turns the back wheel just for kicks

[Jamie_Neal]

would you buy a bike stand especially made for trials bikes?

yes, definitely! [ 8 ] [42.11%]

no, i dont need it [ 11 ] [57.89%]

I wasn't going to answer that question as I think it would depend on the additional advantages the stand had.

Also, height adjustment seems to be one thing that most stands miss. eg if you clamp a bike by the seat post and then want to use the stand for a trials bike, the trials bike sits a lot higher and can sometimes be difficult to work on or vice versa, the bike clamped by the seat post sits too low.

[Adrian]

would you buy a bike stand especially made for trials bikes?

yes, definitely! [ 8 ] [42.11%]

no, i dont need it [ 11 ] [57.89%]

I wasn't going to answer that question as I think it would depend on the additional advantages the stand had.

Also, height adjustment seems to be one thing that most stands miss. eg if you clamp a bike by the seat post and then want to use the stand for a trials bike, the trials bike sits a lot higher and can sometimes be difficult to work on or vice versa, the bike clamped by the seat post sits too low.

yea this is going to be fully hight adjustable, and will pivot, also folds up pretty small, might try and make it so it folds up rucksack size.

iv already designed a few that do all this. plus it will also hold the bike really tight compared to others, so that you can fully tighten everything

this thing is going to be a tidy bit of kit