I don't have much space in my garage so I thought about this solution, the clamp is not very tight on the seat post, what do you guys think?
by Count_Hungula
I don't have much space in my garage so I thought about this solution, the clamp is not very tight on the seat post, what do you guys think?
by Count_Hungula
20 Comments
sure
I mean it could fall over.. buts about it
Sure, but probably locked behind one of these doors =)
Why wouldn’t you raise your seat post and clamp it on the seat post? Never seen clamped on frame like this… especially if you’re concerned about carbon… or scratching frame
Personally I would prefer to rest the clamp on the top tube. Keyword is rest meaning the clamp is open and not tightened at all. If the bike can be balanced too
I don’t get it. You want to leave your bike hanging in the stand? It will be shit for the bike that’s for sure and likely leave a permanent mark or crack the carbon there or just drop your bike when ambient temperatures change. Why not hang it from a bike hook? They are hella cheap.
It’s not going to hurt it as long as you don’t have the clamp too tight. If that model doesn’t allow you to adjust the strength of the clamp, then it could cause defects over time.
Nothing wrong with leaving the bike in a stand. You should however clamp the seatpost and use a clamp adapter specifically for seat masts
I’ve left mine in the stand for extended periods of time before. It’s fine as long as the stand is stable and won’t fall over imo. And on the seat post like you said not any frame tubes.
If it were me, I wouldn’t do long-term clampage of your carbon seat tube if it is tight enough to support the weight of the bike; it just doesn’t seen like a good idea. (But, I have never owned a plastic bile, either.) Could you suspend a rope from the ceiling and suspend the bike from two wide support points under the top tube, or, better yet, a hook at the junction of the down tube and head tube and another at the junction of the seat tube and seat stay. These are probably the strongest points of the frame.
In any case, put it inside one of the storage units; don’t leave it out in the hall! 🙂
If you mean blocking the hallway,it’s no
i personally don’t like to clamp on carbon fiber at all, and a storage solution that depends on me always getting the right clamping force (strong enough to hold it in place but light enough not to damage the seatpost) seems like a doomed strategy.
if you can rotate the clamp, i would personally be a big fan of finding the midpoint of the top tube (it’s probably near the black stripe) and rest the bike entirely using gravity within the (open) jaws of the clamp. if it’s properly balanced, it should be able to balance and stay still as long as you don’t bump into it. overwhelmingly, the vast majority of the weight of the bike is below the top tube, so it’s not like it’s going to flip over or anything.
if you close the jaw/clamp just enough so that you can slide the bike back and forth, i’d feel pretty good about that (assuming people won’t be bumping into your bike regularly. if people will be knocking into it, then i think even a firm grip on the bike frame would worry me, so i would constantly be thinking of other ways to store it so nobody accidentally bumps it)
edit: i just realized i posted a longer, wordier version of what u/mike_jo3 [said](https://www.reddit.com/r/bikewrench/comments/1l7itxv/is_it_ok_to_leave_the_bike_like_this/mwx1xil/)… so i agree wholeheartedly with that.
The clamp is fine, carbon seat tubes and posts are designed to be clamped that way but whatever you did to scratch the crap out of your rear derailleur… don’t do that again half the finish is gone and it looks very abused
It’s fine. Maybe a towel to prevent abrasion wearing off the paint. If you’re not applying any appreciable clamping force, there’s absolutely nothing to worry about. Think about it, if it can’t handle the stationary force of being held in a stand, how the hell is it going to withstand riding forces?
That is how you’re supposed to use the stand. Is the question about long term effects?
The one thing I do when I put my bike in the stand is to loosen the knob that controls the rotation of the clamp, so it finds its own balance point. Probably not needed, but it minimizes the clamp pinch loading a bit.
Put a hook or two in the ceiling. Hang from a wheel.
The issue with the stand isn’t the storage, it’s the hundreds of up and down transitions which depend on a well placed and precisely torqued clamp. Just not a good solution.
As long as Wheels and Tires. Are not sitting on a Flat Hard Surface for extended periods of time, you should have no problem. We hang bikes usually upside down by the wheels unless someone is working on 1, then I use A Stand, or if it’s at the House I literally hang it from the rafters. Good xslip around the Seat then handlebars. Plus you can loosen or tighten for Height. I got a man can literally Strip a Bike in bout 30 minutes.
Is this satire
Have you considered a vertical bike stand? I have a few [Bike Nooks](https://bike-nook.thane.com/ggl_shop?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=681753991&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjJrCBhCXARIsAI5x66UzHcFWQxutasS0olXuG0Zu5UP-vNNQ4UBulT6i3ET0xYqa_1XXjxwaArl9EALw_wcB), which have done well for me.
Yeah as long as the clamp isn’t too tight. Would be better if you had the clamp looser so it was more a case of the saddle resting on top of the clamp rather than it clamping onto the seat tube extension though