Comments on: Bicycle repair stand plans

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:20:20 +0000

Jess, if you are working in a regular shop, invest in a Park Tools stand. I would love one, but can’t really justify the cost for the occasional work I do on bikes. But if I had a regular shop, I would get a Park Tools stand. Definately!

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:46:14 +0000

great plan for a stand. I desperately need one at work so I’m going to do something similar but the bottom support won’t be so necesarry as I will use a hole saw to fit it through our shop bench. Then it will split into two directions at the top so I can have two tee’s at the top horizontal bar. One smaller tee cut in half for speed bikes, and one larger tee cut in half for mountain bikes. The trick will be getting two different sized tees on the same bar. Will need a converter/adaptor type thing.

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:42:49 +0000

great plan for a stand. I desperately need one t work so I’m going to do something simila

By: steve

steve — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:19:23 +0000

i seall dig this your clamp works well but i was not sold on the base. so i took an old craftsman Twin Lamp Halogen Floodlight base removed the top and made two clamps one with a 1/4 20 bolt to atatch to the stand holding a horozontal 18 inch pvc pipe schedule 80 and the other for the bike. thus making the stand fully articulating. i have bin in the custom mettal fab industry for some time now and not much impresses me anymore but this clamp. its a good idea. i will have some pictures to post of an aluminum version soon

By: Persistent Inappeasable Mind

Persistent Inappeasable Mind — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:14:10 +0000

Bike repair cheap man stand…

I just wanted to share my cheap man stand I use to adjust derailleur on the bike. It needs 2 chars and a post. I takes 15 seconds to set up. I keeps my bike 10cm from the ground and works fine for me. No need for hooks on a ceiling and ropes (which sea…

By: Don

Don — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:03:29 +0000

Great idea! the only modifications that I made to the plan were that I used 1″ pipe, pipe base and set the base pipes at 45 degrees to get them out of the way. Not a big change but I like it better. Thanks for the Idea

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:33:54 +0000

I just cut a notch in the pcv pipe and used a hose clamp to allow it to clamp onto the iron pipe. You can see it in the last couple photos.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:13:02 +0000

Just curious, I’ve starting building this and was wondering how you attach the iron pipe to the PVC T clamp. It appears he might have used a clamp. If anyone could get back to me on this I’d appreciate it… Thanks in advance.

By: Joe Brown

Joe Brown — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:45:38 +0000

Nice design,I may try my self.
I’ve been using a Parks PS-10 for 6 years now and It is starting to wear out.I don’t feel like spending another $180.00 for a new one.Good Luck with it.

By: James

James — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:11:10 +0000

I tried to use the car bike rack for repairs but I found that I could not keep up. And when I could, it was hard to hold the wrenches steady and run at the same time.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:32:41 +0000

Built my own today. Cost = $0.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3222249&l=e68347df5a&id=511763426

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:13:04 +0000

I’m with rob – been doing work with the bike on the bike rack behind my truck. Am going to build one like this with a wood base, wood post, and utilize one of the fold up racks on my garage wall to hold the bike

By: Doug Toms

Doug Toms — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:36:47 +0000

Very nice design. I also built my own stand for the same reason, but was not satisfied with my clamping design. I found some Bosch extruded aluminum that worked well for the main frame, but only had horizontal clamping which needed refined. I think I’ll incorporate your clamp design into mine and that will make mine acceptable. If I has seen this before buying the bosch, I would have used the pipe. Thanks for sharing. Best regards, Doug

By: Andy Mendez

Andy Mendez — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:02:21 +0000

Very helpfull

By: Hardwarz

Hardwarz — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:18:55 +0000

Looks great, lately, I’ve been using my truck’s 2″ reciever bike rack to build bikes. When I use it for maintenance or builds, I only have one bike on at a time, that give me enough room. I’m going to build one like you have shown here. It’ll be much better when I can work on a bike in doors and not outside behind my truck.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:37:13 +0000

I picked up a park tool folding unit for ~$150. It quickly folds and can be put in my trunk.

My concern with making my own is that I’d design something that failed while working on it and/or damaged my bike. Maybe with an MTB it wouldn’t do as much damage but on my road bike I don’t want it to fall 3 feet onto the fork.

By: Buzzy

Buzzy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:10:38 +0000

Wow-this TEE-clamp is the solution to a puzzle I started today while on a parallel course. (Couldn’t come up with a closure mechanism). My idea was to make a bench stand, but the wonderful simplicity of the pipe-and-board base cannot be improved. One difference in my approach: to adjust the tilt of the clamp, I may try a common screwed union which would allow 360Â° of motion with only a pipe wrench to tighten. To assure that the pipe fittings would not turn, I may drill small holes for roll pins (that can be drifted out later). Thanks for the inspiration.

By: Mike Gillman

Mike Gillman — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:17:06 +0000

I finally got around to building this a few weeks back. I ended up using 2″ wide pipe, as I wanted to be able to work on my 29er mountain bike, which has a large diameter top tube. The larger PVC T helps get around the large bike, and the larger and heavier 2″ pipes add a nice bit of heft.

All in all, your design works great. Thanks for seeing my craigslist request and e-mailing me a few months back!

By: Lynn McLeod

Lynn McLeod — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:33:04 +0000

I am a researcher for Nelson Education Ltd. in Toronto, Canada. I am working on a Grade 8 Science and Technology textbook and we would like to use the picture of your bike repair stand. Please get back to me by email to discuss.
Look forward to hearing from you.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:56:19 +0000

Gabriel, one drawback would be the cost of the SUV style rack itself. Not sure how sturdy it would while you are trying to work on the bike. There is another kind of SUV style rack that has a clamp. That kind might work better than the kind with the horns.