Comments on: Bicycle repair stand plans

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.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:16:40 +0000

Hi! Great plan.

I am surprised though that I see nobody in this large internet to try using the bicycle rack of the car (I am thinking the SUV kind with horns here not the ones attached to trunk) as support. That is a pretty sturdy piece of metal that needs just the clamp to be attached somehow.

Does anybody see any drawback to that(other than having the proper rack or even tha rack itself)?

I thought I can get a clam to buy and adapt but I see none so I will start looking in the plan here for that.

Thanks

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:56:34 +0000

Great plan. I built one the other day and it works like a charm. When I build mine, I made a couple of modifications. First, instead of using a wood base, I made a metal base. The way I made the base was by getting a T, two more elbows and two pieces of 24″ pipe. I had the guy at home depot cut the 24″ pipe in half and re-thread two of the pieces. I attached the T to the base of the post and then attached the 12″ pieces that had threads on both ends. I attached the remaining elbows to those pieces and attached the remaining 12″ long pipes to the elbows. As a result, I have legs instead of a wooden base. Figured it might be a bit better for using in the driveway.

The other modification was on the clamp. To lock the clamp in place, I drilled through the clamp and pipe and then used a bolt to lock things in place. Also, I drilled the clamp in two places so that I could rotate the unit 90 degrees to hold the seat post of my wife’s bike.

One last thing, including having the guy at home depot cut and rethread the pipes, and 14% tax it cost me $58 Canadian ($52 USD) for the complete unit.