Originally Posted by
Glennfordx4
I had almost the same thing happen to me about 10yrs ago. A customer from my Power Equipment repair shop came to my house right after I closed my shop ( I told him I would still work on his stuff from home ) and I had a lot of bikes around, he says I didn't know you were into bikes and I asked him if he saw the bikes at my repair shop ( he just didn't put 2 & 2 together), he tells me he had a bike shop that he closed almost 30yrs ago and still had everything packed in a garage and some sheds, he gave it all to me! He turned out to be a great friend after that and I helped him with anything I could, he was 92yrs old and still riding, he passed a few yrs ago and I miss him all the time. He was a mailman who liked bikes and planes building his first plane in the same shop he did bike repairs in, I worked on his Rotax 2 cycle engines for him. Here is a before & after pic of his truing stand he gave me, which I gave to my boss and it is displayed at our shop.
Glenn
Wow, what are the chances there's two of those old stands around here like that, this guy I'm cleaning out had this one, I took pics before we moved it. I think this one is bigger, its wide enough to do a motorcycle wheel or one of Fat bike or chopper wheels. He had this, two homemade stands, and a Park TS2 stand that doesn't look like its ever been used. The homemade stands are made from Schwinn forks with threads through the sides, the forks are welded to pipes, atop old rims. One looks like it sat outside for a long time.
The Hozan is a nice stand to use but the TS2 dishes the wheel for you automatically.