Originally Posted by
Eric F
Or, I can go to my garage, and squeeze to top tubes of 4 different CF bikes. Zero give on any of them. Please provide specific makes and models of bikes where you personally experienced what you describe.
I can't say I have ever been able to make a bike tube give by squeezing it. Total BS.
Originally Posted by
Trakhak
As for carbon requiring the bike to be clamped in a stand by the seatpost, the only frames I've seen that were damaged by being clamped in a bike stand were two steel bikes, where customers had wheeled their bikes in and clamped them in the stand by the seat tube, not realizing that the clamp was currently adjusted to clamp the seatpost. The seat tubes ended up optimized for crosswind aerodynamics.
It is a good idea to use the seatpost to clamp ANY bike in a stand. Tubing, regardless of material can be damaged by clamping force in a bike stand. Besides, I'd rather trash a seatpost than a bike frame.