Comments on: Bicycle repair stand plans

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.

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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.

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.