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Old 02-15-15 | 09:28 AM
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HillRider
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Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!

For maintenance and minor repairs any decent stand will do. The major players are Park Tools and Feedback Sports and any of their stands will certainly meet your needs. I'd avoid the no-name <$50 specials sold by Amazon, etc. BTW, with an aluminum frame, don't clamp it by the toptube, clamp it by the seatpost. The frame tubes are easily damaged by too much clamp pressure.

Park and others do make what are called "race stands" that clamp the bike by one set of dropouts and support it under the bottom bracket thus avoiding clamping the tubes or seatpost but these are specialty items and require removing one wheel or the other for any use.
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