Originally Posted by
branko_76
Anybody who would clamp a vintage bike by the seat tube wouldn't have the intelligence to clamp it correctly.
I clamp my vintage bikes by the seat tube and they are all totally fine. Symmetrical force applied on all sides of a steel tube has to be absolutely massive to cause any sort of permanent deformation.
Originally Posted by
branko_76
I wonder if the clamp was setup for a seatpost and the doofus didn't adjust it for the frame
The repair stand has to be adjusted for pretty much every bike that gets placed in it as there are so many different diameters of seat tubes and seat posts, some seat posts are larger diameter than some seat tubes and so on...