Originally Posted by
jackbombay
I'm not familiar with that repair stand, but I can't imagine how hard I would have to crank on my park tools repair stand to put dents like that in a seat tube.
This is rather puzzling, a repair stand does seem like the culprit, but someone would have to doing it really, really wrong to produce dents like this it seems.
Whats especially confusing is that this is a shop which specializes in used bikes. I'd expect them to know better than to clamp a butted steel tube in a stand.
The one thing I wonder is if the seatpost being removed may have made it more likely to bend the tube.