Aldi Bike Stand

ohara227
ohara227 Posts: 225
edited October 2010 in Road beginners
Hi,

Seen this:

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/sp ... _15619.htm

Was wondering if this style of stand would damage the frame of either a Giant road bike or MTB, by damage I mean bend over time the top tube or so?

The hooks seem dubber coated, seems a nice bit of kit if it wont do any long term damage.
'The hills are alive with the sounds of panting'

Rides:

MTB - Giant 2008 Trance X2
Road - Giant 2010 Defy 2
Hybrid - Giant Escape 2011 City 2

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  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    The frames will be perfectly fine on them.
    Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
  • AndyF16
    AndyF16 Posts: 506
    being a bit of a cheapskate... would one of these suffice as a simple 'workstand' - i.e allow you to rotate the drivetrain to clean and lube etc? also, would cables running below the toptube not be compatible with such a stand?
    2011 Bianchi D2 Cavaria in celeste (of course!)
    2011 Enigma Echo 57cm in naked Ti
    2009 Orange G2 19" in, erm orange
  • nferrar
    nferrar Posts: 2,511
    Yeah for basic stuff it would be OK, for doing much work though then the bottom position looks too low and the top one too high, I imagine the bike would move around a bit to as it's not clamped - but for cleaning the drive train it looks OK. Shouldn't really cause a problem for the cables either, although if you have exposed inner cable under the top tube it might snag it enough so doing stuff like adjusting gear indexing wouldn't be possible.
  • D@VE
    D@VE Posts: 73
    i don't know if there we be any left but Lidl had a Workstand in last monday i'd get down there you might be lucky.
    http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/index_14168.htm

    £30 :lol:
  • ohara227
    ohara227 Posts: 225
    Only for storage and I have a repair stand/

    Got one and works fine, well built
    'The hills are alive with the sounds of panting'

    Rides:

    MTB - Giant 2008 Trance X2
    Road - Giant 2010 Defy 2
    Hybrid - Giant Escape 2011 City 2
  • AndyF16
    AndyF16 Posts: 506
    nferrar wrote:
    Yeah for basic stuff it would be OK, for doing much work though then the bottom position looks too low and the top one too high, I imagine the bike would move around a bit to as it's not clamped - but for cleaning the drive train it looks OK. Shouldn't really cause a problem for the cables either, although if you have exposed inner cable under the top tube it might snag it enough so doing stuff like adjusting gear indexing wouldn't be possible.

    great, thank you
    2011 Bianchi D2 Cavaria in celeste (of course!)
    2011 Enigma Echo 57cm in naked Ti
    2009 Orange G2 19" in, erm orange

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