Then one day a tubing bender showed up in the Shoppe. I kept looking at the base thinking…. Yes…. It must happen!
Now the Park Stand is very capable of holding the Henry James frame building jig as well as anything else that weighs in beyond normal. I can do clean-up work on frames with a file and not have to think about the whole thing moving around on me. The plate is from some scrap that was once used for a railroad setup.
When I have novice mechanics stop by I like to remind them that the main reason to have a bicycle stand is so that you never have to bend over to do any work on the bike. If you purchase a consumer stand, you will find the convenience of portability and being able to store out of the way, which is another reason not to have one. The easier it is to work on your bike, the more likely it will be tuned properly!
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The genius of the Park PRS series is the clamping devices.
There are two clamps here. One holds the bicycle while the other
holds the clamp arm. In heavy use, you want a stand to stay in one
place while you are flipping the bike or frame around. The stand
clamp should have an ‘infinite’ setting of pressure to
adjust for the weight of the object to be positioned. With today’s
many configurations of tubing Park has come out with an oversized
clamp. This is the Product Of The Month. I prefer to use the Park Internal Seat Tube Clamp for clamping frames that I am concerned about the paint or that the tubing is so thin that I may dent the tubing clamping it directly. For the little cost, it sure does the trick! |
The plate is from some scrap that was once used for a railroad setup.
