Bike Repair Stand

I have 2 new e-bikes that I want to keep in top condition. My first task is applying ceramic coat to the paint. It’s a lot of work bending over to prep and apply a ceramic coating so I thought a stand would be a little easier on my back. After some searching, I decided on this Yaheetech stand. The price was right and the reviews pretty good. I was just hoping the quality was at least OK and suitable for my light use. So far I am very impressed.The installation instructions are pretty simple. No words, just pictures but the pictures were all I needed. The base was the first part to take out. The legs fold open. You can decide just how open you want them for stability depending on the weight of the bike and how high you want it. My bikes are on the heavy end so I spread the feet all the way out. A simple cam clamp locks it in place. I did have to screw the clamp in a few turns to get the right tension when clamped. There was nothing in the directions about this but it is pretty obvious so no real issue there. The extension then slides into the base and tightens with the same cam system. At the top is the grabber extension that holds the bike. This piece is held in by tightening a star wheel instead of the cam clamps used on the other parts. This part can be rotated to match the position of the part of the bike you are clamping. The clamping end is a thick plastic to protect your bike from scratches. My bikes do not have cross bars, so I need to clamp to the seat post. In this case I just rotated the extension so the clamp is vertical. This is the one place that I realized I would have a small issue. If you clamp on a cross member of you bike, the clamp would be horizontal allowing you to rest the cross bar on the clamp while you clamped it tight. In my case you need to hold a heavy bike in the clamp and close the clamp at the same time. With a heavy bike, this is a 2-person job, one to hold the bike and one to clamp it. Finally, there is a small rod with rubber straps at either end that you can use in several different ways to help stabilize the bike. For example, if you don’t want the handlebars to move you can strap this rod to the handlebars and then to the stand. It is circled in blue in one of my pictures.As I unpacked and installed the parts I was impressed with how the parts looked and felt. They are all well painted, the plastic parts are thick and sturdy looking, the steel looks heavy duty, there was nothing cheap looking. When assembled It felt and looked solid. Tight fit on all of the joints, no play, and when I hung my 45-pound e-bike on it, the stand didn’t bend, bow, twist, or argue in any way with the weight I just put on it. The stand will handle 57 pounds and based on how it handles my 45-pound bike I have no doubt that it will in fact handle a 57-pound bike. In spite of the weight of the parts, the stand easily folds up and is light enough to move around and will store in a very tight space.So far, the only concern I see is minor and at this point not an issue for me. The grabber extension rotates 360 degrees but there are no hard stops and only a friction fit tightened with a star wheel. My bike, when using the seat post to clamp rests with the front tire closer to the ground than the rear. If I loosen the star wheel and rotate the bike so the wheels are level and tighten the star wheel, the grabber extension rotates back to a vertical position. Since I don’t need the tires to be level, it is not an issue for me but something you should be aware of. And for the price, this is a minor issue. This is by far the best stand in this price range. I think you could spend a lot more and not get a better stand.Stop looking. This is definitely the stand you want.

Very nice stand, makes it much easier to work on your bike. Quality stand would recommend.

Have you tried to purchase a new bicycle in 2021? Almost every manufacturer is sold out and back-ordered until 2022 due to COVID. As a result of the pandemic many people have turned to cycling to stay in shape, because going to the gym is such risky business. Others are hopping on their bikes just to get out of the house. In any case, if you're looking to upgrade your ride like I am, we're all S-O-L for the moment. As a result, I am going to have to maintain my old mountain bike for at least another season, and try to upgrade that existing bike whenever and however possible. This is why I've just purchased something I had never imagined owning before: a bicycle repair work stand.Not knowing where to begin, I looked at what all the bike shops were using, which were the stands from Park Tool. But these stands cost several hundred dollars, and I couldn't justify spending that sort of money on a stand to maintain a bicycle that couldn't fetch $50 trade in value.Well thank goodness for Amazon, for Yaheetech, and for the many reviewers who recommended this stand. Although it is among the least expensive options that I could find anyplace on the internet, it is a tool of very good quality. For about the cost of getting your drivetrain lubed at your local bike shop, you can purchase this stand and then easily do your own lube jobs at a fraction of the cost for the rest of your life.As I removed each component from its shipping carton I immediately noted how solid each piece felt. This is no light-weight piece of junk -- it has some beef to it. It feels solid. It feels sturdy. The heft of this stand impressed me significantly and gave me confidence in this tool. This means enough strength to support even the heaviest of bicycles, and enough weight that it doesn't slide all around as you are trying to work. Still, the stand is far from being over-built. It is still light enough to be easily carried around. And because of the way the stand folds and collapses, it is just as convenient to store and/or transport.The grabber clamp is coated with a thick layer of plastic which helps to protect the bike’s finish from the metal components of the clamp. The clamping hardware is all steel, with bolts terminating in seated nuts for high strength and long-lasting durability, rather than depending on threaded plastic parts. The grabber arm is 360 degrees adjustable, so that it can either grab the bike's horizontal crossbar or its vertical seat post.One instructions were sparse, depending more on a few less-than-clear diagrams. Despite that, the pieces of the stand go together intuitively, and it only took ten minutes to assemble.I was interested to notice that little text that the instructions did contain was in both English and German language. In this day and age I pretty much automatically assume that such an inexpensive product on Amazon must be manufactured in China. But those German language instructions make me wonder if this stand was manufactured in Germany, or was at least designed there. I can say that this stand has the feel of German engineering.The only real shortcoming I could find with this stand is that while the grabber arm might be 360 degrees adjustable, its clamp mechanism is made of plastic and holds its position by friction only rather than any sort of teeth or other mechanical stops. If you clamp a bike by the vertical seat post (as is the more proper method) the bicycle may not be balanced, and the friction of the clamp alone will not hold that unevenly distributed weight horizontal. I do wish that the clamp on the arm relied on some sort of mechanical leveling clamp, but that is a component that would certainly increase the cost of this otherwise competitively priced stand. In the end, I'm happy enough with the trade-offs of the inexpensive price and the simple design features. There are plenty of easy enough workarounds for leveling a bicycle on the stand.If you're a pro working on bikes in a shop every day you would probably do well to opt for a more expensive stand with some of the features lacking on this stand. But if you're like me and just need a stand to do some of your own basic maintenance and repairs, this is an inexpensive but high quality way to get started.