Originally Posted by
ThorUSA
so let me get this straight .... if you clamp a 40 lbs or so Brompton with the seatpost, there is danger to damage the frame, but its quite alright to have a 200 lbs guy ride it down the street ....
something has to give .... or better not ...
I imagine that they fear that someone rotates a bike while it is held in the stand such that load, 40 lbs, causes an extended seat tube bend, where as normally it loaded as a column, with a little bending.