Bicycle Tutor

How durable is this bicycle stand? I mean can actually do some heavy work on it? Or is it just a "cleaning stand"? I find myself in a position that I either goto Lowes and make one from instructables.com or buy this. By the time I buy the membership from there and get the parts I would be paying for one of these. Well maybe 20 dollars less to make one. Thanks for your help.

I've used one before and they're not bad. The clamp uses some plastic parts and it will break if abused. But used with care, it works well. If you are restoring old bikes that tend to be rusted up and need some serious banging and leverage applied, I'd buy/make something sturdier. I also wouldn't use one if you'll have multiple people using the stand. People tend not to take care with things when they didn't pay for it...

Dave,

Thanks for your input. I did take the sturdiness in to consideration and decided to borrow some ideas from instructables and made my own bike stand. Here are a couple pictures I took after assembly and everything cost me 64.00 from Lowes. Granted it is not completely tightened down so I could see what it looked like but seems to be what I need. As far as other people using my stand well they can build their own . The sweet feature on here is I used a 36"piece of black steel and a T fitting with another 12" on top of it for different sizes. If needed it easily expands to per say another 12-24". The base I decided to use 18" pieces for more stability. The inner pieces are just 10" pieces. I do have end caps (1/2") but haven't got that far yet lol. I will be expanding on this stand and yeah updated here as I go so maybe save everyone some money from buying those crap RAD stands off eBay.

Thanks again Dave,
Bill

Here are the rest of the pics! By the way all of the black plumbing pipe (ALOT CHEAPER TO BUY THEN GALVANIZED) is 1/2" diameter.