Brand Topeak Model 68001002 Details Lowest Price ($202.46)

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Topeak PrepStand Elite Bicycle Repair Stand
Topeak PrepStand Elite Bicycle Repair Stand – Features
Telescoping aluminum tube supports a 360° rotating head with quick adjust clamp. Folding tripod base. Entire unit fits in the supplied carrying bag. A digital weight scale is available as an option.
Non-marring rubber jaws clamp to any tube on the bike; digital weight scale
Easy-to-fold pro level workstand for repair
Sturdy construction with a rock-solid steel head
Front wheel hook

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Topeak PrepStand Elite Bicycle Repair Stand – Reviews

The Topeak PrepStand serves me very well. I have 14 bikes that i am constantly working on, and a few that come and go. This stand is very mobile, and very sturdy on a hard surface, or in loose stone. When holding a heavy bike, the joints are really put through a test, and the legs bounce a lot like a suspension. The quick release levers are easy to use, yet can only take so much pressure untill the grips slips and turns.
I can spin my bike in EVERY direction when it is on the stand. It holds a bike nomatter how high the stand is. It is not professional grade, but will do very well for people who work on their bikes, or fix them up as a hobbie. Definitely Worth up to $300.

Leslie

My only point of comparison is a $600+ Park professional stand that I used during a bike repair workshop that I attended this past fall, so the bar may be set pretty high when I compared that to a collapsible home repair stand. Overall everything is fully functional and easy to use. My only complaint is that it seems a tad wobbly with a heavy steel bike in the jaws. I would recommend to a friend looking for a repair stand in the sub-$200 range.

Aeon M. Hale

This stand is very well-designed and easy to use, and it’s very rugged. Unfortunately, it has – or at least mine has – a major flaw that undermines what otherwise would be an extremely sturdy and stable stand. The flaw is that the head, which swivels down to fold against the main tube, isn’t parallel to the floor when raised: it leans several degrees, thus wanting to tip the stand forward. Naturally, the problem is exacerbated under a load, i.e., as soon as you mount a bike.

I took mine apart to find the cause. In my case, the head’s rear wall thickness either wasn’t sufficient to brace the wall against the post early and evenly (there’s a gap between the rear wall and the post, so they don’t make contact until the head beam leans a few degrees), or the holes on either side of the beam that accommodate the swivel post were drilled a couple of millimeters forward of where they should have been (resulting in the aforementioned gap at the rear). I had to have a 2mm-thick metal rectangle (roughly 1.75″ by 1.75 ” welded to the inside rear wall to gain sufficient thickness so that it would make contact against the post early enough to prevent the lean.

Were it not for this, I’ve have given this stand five stars: as it is, I’m tempted to give it only two, but will settle at three (but barely).

kaj


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