Bicycle Repair Stand

[67-LS1]

What kind of repair stand do you guys use? E-bikes are heavy and I don’t want to get one that is flimsy and bends or breaks.
If you don’t have a repair stand, what else do you use?
Any homemade stands? Wall mount? Bench mount?

 

[Annieolnie]

There is a thread on this forum, "Bike Maintenance Stand Issue", the poster has a pic over there of his temporary fix. He used a ratchet strap to a rafter and a auto jack stand under the kickstand. If your bike is heavy, it sounds like a good solution. I have a bolt down stand (see picture) that I bolted to a post and I slide the post into a Black and Decker vise grip table. This is fine for my light Kona Ebike, but it would get pretty dicy if I tried to put my cargo bike in it, which is why I like that concept above.

 

[m@Robertson]

The Park stands work great. Not cheap but they can take the weight. speaking of which if you put an ebike in a stand take the battery out first. This bike is a longtail but still using just the stand works fine.

This is a Park stand on a truly gigantic longtail where the extreme length in back was managed with a couple of RV jacks. The jacks don't take much weight they just keep the back end up high.

For a really long cargo bike that was too big for a stand (I built my first one with a stand and a couple of RV jacks, but wasn't fond of that as a long term bench) I did a set of wire shelving racks and just built the 5-shelf rack in two pieces, side by side. Then I used a motorcycle ramp to roll the bike off the workbench. After the job was done, I set the shelves up and used them as-intended.

 

[danpenn]

Here's the wooden stand I use for my Roll Road Emma 3. The block on top fits right in between the side plates of the lower crank case. Made from junk 2X4's from my wood stash and a few long wood screws. So, almost free.

 

[m@Robertson]

Something I have used on that fat tire longtail: Pack a ratchet strap/come-along in your kit. When you get a flat, find a tree branch, position the bike under it. Loop the come-along strap over the tree branch. Ratchet the thing so it raises the bike off the ground so you can do your repair work. I only did this once, but it was pitch dark and freezing on an after-work commute home, so I was really grateful for the assist. The tree was just a street-side tree you typically find planted by the local municipality. Nothing enormous.

And on that long frontloader (the white one) I carry along two hockey pucks in my toolkit. The pucks raise either the front or back wheel enough to let me work on the wheel roadside, and are just enough so I can remove the wheel if I must.

Also along the same lines as the hockey pucks, my home version of this 'stand' is two bricks. I used whatever I could grab to load up the front of the bike so it tipped forward. More bricks, a big rock, a planter dish and a couple of blue socket sets. I'm going out into the garage right now to do the same thing to my white one cuz I have to pull my front wheel and change my front tire. So just two bricks under the kickstand will suffice.

 

[climb14er]

Been looking for a bike stand that can handle the seventy to eighty pound weight of the two EBikes we have. Been working on road bikes here in Denver for the past fifty years and my Park Stand has been perfect for the lightweight bikes. Looking for a hydraulic, air or pedal pump assist stand that can lift the bikes into place. Not wanting to manually grunt lift the e-bikes into place, on a stand, that got really old for me hanging ratchet and pulleys from the ceiling. Kudos to others who can handle this. Should be able to find one around five hundred bucks but have had no such luck. Any suggestions to a hydraulic lift that’s not thousands of bucks?

 

[Atavar]

https://www.harborfreight.com/1000-lb-steel-motorcycle-lift-68892.html

 

[m@Robertson]

Looking for a hydraulic, air or pedal pump assist stand that can lift the bikes into place. Not wanting to manually grunt lift the e-bikes into place, on a stand, that got really old for me hanging ratchet and pulleys from the ceiling.

There was an ebike shop here locally that catered to big ebikes and electric longtail cargo bikes and they had several Harbor Freight small winch-and-rope-and-hook setups around the shop that they used to work on all of their bikes. Not a commercial product something they worked up themselves. As you can see above the Park stand is fine for ebike weight, but as you say lifting the bike up into the jaws of the holder is a bit of a challenge. This one plugs into a household outlet.
https://www.harborfreight.com/1500-lb-120v-ac-electric-winch-61672.html
A motorcycle lift would need some added jerry-rigging if you want to do something like change a wheel out.

 

[Atavar]

All you need to do to change a tire on a motorcycle stand is put a spacer block under the crank. Not much of a problem.

 

[m@Robertson]

All you need to do to change a tire on a motorcycle stand is put a spacer block under the crank. Not much of a problem.

After you pay $549 for the motorcycle stand.

 

[Atavar]

lol, there is that. Easier to work on than a swinging mass hanging from the rafters.
Less than the cost of a battery.

 

[MikeDuf]

Park stand as well! Well worth the Bucks it can hold a lot of weight, and very stable and folds up nicely. To do the job right you need the right tools. Party on!