Originally Posted by
jerrymcdougal
is it really that easy to dent a frame with a stand? I have a Park PCS-1 and generally clamp the seat tube (not seat post) so the bike is higher up off the ground and so I don't scratch my high polish Campy seatpost. Of course I only do that with my steel bikes, I would definitely think twice about clamping my thin CAAD8 aluminum in there.
I have read one too many threads in the mechanics forum about the sickening crack when you clamp down on a CF tube. As I work on my bikes hanging from my hitch mount, I do not clamp at all. Back in college, using the university coop stands, I clamped on the seat tube, but right below the top tube, where it had seat post in it anyway.