Originally Posted by
choddo
Since you can get a real bike stand
for about £25 this all seems a lot of work to create a bad solution to a non-existent problem
The handlebar stands are nice for in the field, not home.
I'd have a Park Tool stand by now, except my townie with panniers, a) has a tall-section monobeam frame so not rackable there, and b) It weighs a ton with racks and panniers and thus a pain to lift to grab by the seatpost. I saw a repair rack at a bike shop years ago, it grabs the seatpost, then is counterweighted and slides up a channel to lift the bike. Only a couple months earlier I saw an old multiplate weight machine for sale cheap at a surplus sale, could have made same from exactly that, but didn't make the connection. But it wouldn't fit in my small city room anyway. If I had a house, I would just rig a bike/kayak pulley-lift, which are now as little as $8 on sale at the discount tool shop here. My room landlord does not allow drilling into the ceiling to mount such a thing here.