(12-05-2018, 12:18 PM)Canard Wrote: You again missed my point. Sure, the seatpost is strong. And it’s around 35 mm in diameter. The front of your bike is over a metre away from that point. It is simply not possible for that point to be rigid in space. Things will move. Things will bounce. The stand will flex. That’s annoying when you’re working on it. Every video I’ve ever seen of someone using a stand shows them glancing at it the wrong way and the bike is bouncing around like it’s in a hurricane. Hate.
It's not annoying if you actually spend some time working on bikes and it's not a bad design just because you don't like the idea of it. The entire industry uses it because it's versatile and it allows mostly unencumbered access to the entire bicycle and it works on many different sized bikes and frames. The amount of actual bouncing that happens is minimal and I don't know what people are doing to make the bike bounce around like it's in a hurricane. Once you get the hang of working on a bike you don't end up moving it around all that much (unless you want to) when you're working on it. You don't have to take my word for it, I've only have been working on bikes in stands for over 9 years, albeit only a few hundred hours a year so I'm not a professional by any means ¯\_(ツ)_/¯