Subject: RE: Tips for working on bike without a bike standmwATL - 2006-05-25 10:58 AM Good point, but I think you're assuming that I'm tinkering. If you have to take a bike to a race on a plane, you're going to have to set it up. You can't control when you're going to have a flat on your rear tire, when your bike will get knocked over and land on the RD, a training ride crash, etc. The point is things happen and although you'd prefer not to work on a bike outside of your workshop, sometimes you have to. Taking your objections out of it, the question is the same for someone who wants to work on a bike at home, not before a race, and doesn't have a stand. I'm just curious how other folks rig up contraptions to do it. I have built three or four bikes from the ground up without a stand. They lean against walls, or saw horses, or whatever. I can usually get the shifting to work just by holding the rear wheel off the gournd with one hand and pedaling with the other. Occasionally, I will have an assistant to hold the wheel up, and this helps. When I have had to work on bikes in hotel rooms, I usually put some papertowels or newspaper down to protect the carpet. I am a big fan of "shop towels on a roll". |