Best place to clamp a carbon frame ?

keef66

Slowbike wrote:

There's little in bike maintenance that I've come across that needs huge force - if it needs that much then I'll pop it on the floor on it's wheels (even if just temporarily fixed) to do that job - before putting it back in the stand to finish off.

+1 to that. I always have the bike on the floor when I'm dealing with threaded bottom brackets or pedals. Everything else I can do at a more comfortable height with the thing in the workstand.

Matthewfalle

i'll screw in b/bs until finger tight in a stand but yup - final tourquing the bike goes on the floor or on the turbo trainer.

same for pedals.

if you don't have a stand, put the bike in a turbo trainer and put the whole shebang on a table - works just as wellas a stand (i have an old broken turbo that is now just the clamp and frame for this)

tyw214

How are you suppose to work on the Canyon Aeroad ?? The top tube super skinny, and the seat post is pretty hollow and not round :x

keef66

tyw214 wrote:

How are you suppose to work on the Canyon Aeroad ?? The top tube super skinny, and the seat post is pretty hollow and not round :x

I'd say that's one which needs the kind of stand which clamps the fork dropouts and supports the BB shell?

Matthewfalle

tyw214 wrote:

How are you suppose to work on the Canyon Aeroad ?? The top tube super skinny, and the seat post is pretty hollow and not round :x

Put the whole shebang in a turbo trainer and put that on a table like the bloke above said I’d say.