Bike stands.
I think a simple bike stand would help me. I am old/fat/disabled/etc, and jobs involving lifting the bike and say spinning a wheel are (I don't believe it either) getting beyond me.
Plus the fact that the bike is electric, and steel-framed, all makes it a heavy old machine.
There is one on Amazon, which seems a bit weedy. What I'm hoping for is something like the old-fashioned car axle stands - a hefty bit of metal, probably a tripod, with an adjustable shaft (or shafts), so I can lug the bike up onto it (one end at a time, probably), and do things like adjust gear cables, or even remove road wheels.
Is there anything like this on the market? The 'crane' types (Park Tools used to do one) are awkward, as you have to lift the bike onto the 'crane' and then lift it more. Now, if it was hydraulic, that might do...
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Plus the fact that the bike is electric, and steel-framed, all makes it a heavy old machine.
There is one on Amazon, which seems a bit weedy. What I'm hoping for is something like the old-fashioned car axle stands - a hefty bit of metal, probably a tripod, with an adjustable shaft (or shafts), so I can lug the bike up onto it (one end at a time, probably), and do things like adjust gear cables, or even remove road wheels.
Is there anything like this on the market? The 'crane' types (Park Tools used to do one) are awkward, as you have to lift the bike onto the 'crane' and then lift it more. Now, if it was hydraulic, that might do...
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Park Tool do one, it would be ideal for you, it's the prs-33.0
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Park-Tool-PRS-33/dp/B00CABIJ00
Well, maybe so. Warning to others before they click on the above: be sitting down, as the price might make you fall down...
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(I might revert to Plan B, which was to try an old car axle stand, onto which I could lift the bike enough to get the bottom bracket sitting on top of it, then put something under the wheel I wasn't working on).0 -
Some sort of pulley on a hook in the ceiling? Seems like you could do that for cheap and it would solve the problem of lifting the bike up - which you're going to have to do with most stands.I'm left handed, if that matters.0
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Well, eventually I just HAD to improvise something to get my heavy back wheel off the ground so I could adjust the wheel nuts (which had loosened), so I went for the small axle stand under the bottom bracket, plus some protection on top (using a cut-up old prosthetic liner), and it worked fairly well, as long as there was a convenient wall/fence to help keep the bike upright.
Worked okay. If I'd thought twice, I'd have bought a cheap bottle-jack instead. Same problems, but obviously easier to adjust.
Crude, inelegant, but clock it as a possible workround for the older/disabled/fat/weak rider...
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