Rick

How many of you own a Park PRS. I have a double and a single Park PRS. I purchased the single in 2014. I can put my Tandem on it and it is stable. I was going to put in the EVT stand, but would have had to cut a hole into the ceiling for it to fit. I replaced the clamp in the park stand with the EVT Right Angle Clamp. The EVT Right Angle Clamp is a seatpost only clamp and grips 2" of the seatpost on most any bike. It uses leather to grip the seatpost. It holds better than any park stand vice made. It will only fit in the Park PRS stands. My Park Stand uses a 60 pound base plate. It was $200.00 and I spent another thirty to have it sandblasted and powder coated. I drag it around my carpeted room to reposition the bicycle, in the stand.

mpetry912 

I have a single PRS with the steel plate bolted to the shop floor. I have updated it with the latest Park clamp and it is fine.

the EVT clamp is available open stock and will fit a Park pole. However the clamp is $500.

the updated Park clamp works similar to the EVT, and does not have the "over center" locking feature that is famous for damaging thin frame tubes

I would consider an EVT stand with the "assist" if I were working on a lot of heavy ebikes.

/markp

Rick

I paid $450.00 for the EVT clamp and prefer it to the park clamp. The leather has a much better grip on seatposts than the rubber of the park clamp. In 2014 I paid $350.00 for the Park single stand and $200.00 for the 60 pound base plate. my model doesn't have the pole rotation. The baseplate was a combination of rust and oil for a finish. I had it powder coated as mentioned. I drag it around on my carpet. My double repair stand that I purchased used in the eighties, has the old frame crusher clamps on it. The original Circular baseplate disappeared from my brothers. Park used a pipe flange bolted to the baseplate. I have a pipe flange bolted to a plate that has holes that align to a class A truck brake drum. I keep this on the back porch and use it for bikes that I don't allow in the house.

VtwinVince

I need one, still looking for something local.

Andrew R Stewart 

When I sold off my shop's inventory and tools/fixtures (Bike One, Cleveland Heights, 1986-2000) I kept two PRS double armers. One is mounted to a layered plywood base (makes for easy repositioning) and the other the old Park huge round steel plate base. I have the old early gen no groove 100 series clamps in a box and use the 100-3C and 100-3D modern clamps now. I do have their first 100-5X clamp that I have used infrequently. All my frame building jigs of any mass are equipped with a mounting shaft that fits the Park clamp jaws. The two portable Park stands (PRS-5 and PRS-25) have are in the garage, one serves as a painting stand sometimes. Andy

Rick

I purchased my double stand used in the early eighties. It had the round baseplate. The base plate disappeared when I temporarily stored the stand at my brothers. I made a mounting plate that attached to the pipe flange that the stand screwed into. I mounted this to a tractor trailer brake drum. I moved around quite a bit at the time and I could get the old brake drums free or cheaply. I no longer use the double and it sits in my garage.

Dan Burkhart 

I have mine mounted to a heavy truck brake drum too. They weigh about 120 lb when new minus whatever wears away by the time you pick up a scrap one so they hold the stand pretty stable.
Any class 8 truck repair shop probably has some worn out ones laying around that you could get for scrap price.

Alan K

I have a PRS-20, it’s a simpler and lighter version that can easily stored in my garage when not in use. It is rated to support bicycles weighing up to 60 lbs - adequate for my use.

WGB 

I have a Park 2. I had a Park 9 which is collapsible and one time it suddenly folded when I was reefing on a bottom bracket. The nice thing about the Park 2 is it never moves.

Russ Roth

I've got three, two double arms and one single arm. I keep one double arm in the basement for most of my repairs. I've been trying to set up a second stand in the shop but space is proving too limited but for things like the tandem, wife's ebike or the mtbs which don't get stored in the basement it would make my life a lot easier. I've offered the one to a couple of local groups but no bite, they've all got enough equipment, I just don't need it lying around but I do hope to one day open another bike clinic like the one I ran upstate. After I moved down the guy I had organized it with ran into too many family medical issues and that area of the county went through a population implosion and a lot of the volunteers either moved away for jobs or retired and moved away. Now I've got 4 work benches worth of tools and 3 stands.

Rick

As I mentioned before my double Screws into a pipe flange. I am going to hunt for a scrap brake drum to put my custom punched plate with the pipe flange screwed to it. I will keep the drum on the back porch and screw the stand in and out of it when needed. My bicycle requires no exterior lubrication because it uses a belt. My son's does and he can wrench on it on the back porch.