Bike Stand Clamping of Oval Tubes
 

Hey gang,

Hope everying is enjoying their rides and looking towards the end of Winter. I for one am getting sick of these 20-30mph wind storms here in the midwest - come on Spring!

Anyway, to my question. I have a Topeak Prep-Stand Standard (the one with no scale) which I picked up used about two years ago. The stand works great and I do fine with all my work on my own bike. A buddy of mine will be heading down my way so that we can get his TT bike in shape for some practice this summer. In talking with him, the bike's TT is carbon fiber, relatively large, and circular, but his seat seat tube is an oblong, tapered, tear-drop type shape.

In this situation, while working on his bike, where and how should I clamp on with the stand? On my bike, I do so on my seatpost which is a simple circular shape. I have been told not to clamp on to the TT but rather use the seatpost - how about in this case where the seatpost is one of those aerodynamic styles?

Thanks much gang, as always. Take care.
T

If your seat tubes are the same diameter then simply swap them for the evening while your wrenching. If not then I'm not much help.

A lot of times when working on my bike I'll just hang the back of my saddle across the repair stand so that it lifts the rear wheel a few inches off the ground. You can do pretty much everything from bottom bracket work, to chain work, to shifting work that way. No real need to clamp anything.

Bob

What bobby Lex said. If you really need to clapm stuff, take the seat out and put in a cheapo AL post and clamp away.

My Park stand can clamp aero posts just fine.
whatever you do, don't clamp the tubes.