Originally Posted by veganbikes

Would not clamp the seat tube. Seat post always on all of my ti bikes and steel bikes and aluminum bikes and if I ever owned a crabon bike same thing.

I guess it depends on the stand, my Park stand with the micro adjust clamp is pretty easy to close and if need be I can get it enough to not drop out and just tighten once it is more held in place.I do lift and then tighten but potentially if you have a stand with height adjustability you could lower it put the bike in the stand and then use a little bit of strength to raise it up but I find that rather difficult. If you have a really heavy bike it will be tougher but one could probably figure out solutions to getting it up or look at the new hydraulic lift stand from Topeak.