CF frame in a home workstand - best way to clamp?
12-18-20, 12:06 PM
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If I don't have a proper bike stand for a CF (as I don't), I'd suspend the bike from ceiling by slings around the seat and handlebar stem and, to prevent it from swinging, I would add some rope/sling anchors to the bottom of the bike. If you can't suspend, get inspired by the way people tie motorcycles on pickup truck bed or on a flatbed for transportation. As for the classic bike stand, I think it should be at least two point of support or even three point and with fat padding (my CF doesn't have any round tubes or even anything approaching round shape).
12-18-20, 01:40 PM
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12-18-20, 02:11 PM
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This works for me.
12-18-20, 04:56 PM
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It's much more fun with mountain bike frames.
Here are the areas you can't clamp on a carbon mountain bike: top tube, shock, seatpost (dropper).
Here are the areas you can't clamp on a carbon mountain bike: top tube, shock, seatpost (dropper).
12-18-20, 06:06 PM
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Obviously some of us are fighting for space but if you have backyard with a barn, the options are much bigger (you can skip bigger jobs in winter if the place is not heated).
My carpenter friend has a low table in his shop that I always admire how practical that is. I think it is about 10'x6' or even bigger and high only a bit above your knees, ideal for building carpentry projects on it. For bike wrenching purpose, smaller size would be better, like 3'x8'. You could either have QR mounts fixed on that table top for when the bike's wheels are off or just stand the bike on it with wheels in some channel slot to prevent them sliding about and tie the bike down with four ratchet equipped tie down straps to the table corners (here the bigger table would be handier, for narrow table you could fashion sticking out 2x4s on the floor to provide wider base for the straps).
My carpenter friend has a low table in his shop that I always admire how practical that is. I think it is about 10'x6' or even bigger and high only a bit above your knees, ideal for building carpentry projects on it. For bike wrenching purpose, smaller size would be better, like 3'x8'. You could either have QR mounts fixed on that table top for when the bike's wheels are off or just stand the bike on it with wheels in some channel slot to prevent them sliding about and tie the bike down with four ratchet equipped tie down straps to the table corners (here the bigger table would be handier, for narrow table you could fashion sticking out 2x4s on the floor to provide wider base for the straps).
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12-18-20, 07:51 PM
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12-18-20, 09:57 PM
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Not being able to clamp the dropper is a many times disproven myth...That post takes WAY more abuse while riding than you could ever put on it clamping it...The only way you could hurt it is by scratching it to the point that it would damage the seals. I just wrap mine with a rag...
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12-20-20, 08:11 PM
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Yeah i was going to get a hitch for my bike rack my friend gave me ... the rack place told me not to hang my CF bike by the style i was given and pointed me to use a platform style ... the hits just keep on coming
12-20-20, 08:28 PM
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12-20-20, 08:32 PM
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Always by the seatpost, seatposts be they aluminum, carbon, ti, steel...are all designed to be clamped frame tubing not so much.
12-20-20, 08:36 PM
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In my garage I have a 48"x30" that folds down.
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