Yeah, but I find even a single mm of seat height adjustment makes a difference and I don't like to mess up my seatpost position unless I have to.
Fortunately, I don't own any bike where "seat tube clamping isn't even possible." Everything in the house, with the possible exception of one or two kids bikes that have seat tubes too short for the clamp, anyway, is steel, round, and of normal (1-1/8" diameter) dimensions.
All cautions have been duly noted, however, and I do sometimes just hang the bike over the clamp by the saddle (or clamp the top tube or whatever else I need in order to get the job done.)
Steve "to me, everything looks like a nail" Freides
feldmans wrote:
>
> Another variation: Many shop mechanics have a spare Park stand arm/clamp
> with the jaws sawed down to minimal height. Many bikes now--not that
> tube-clamping was ever a great idea--are made of materials or have frame
> shapes where seat tube clamping isn't even possible.
> David Feldman
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Baylis" <rocklube@adnc.com>
> To: "Steve Freides" <steve@fridayscomputer.com>
> Cc: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 7:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [CR]RE (CR) very deep custon stem
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > I like to clamp only on a seat post. Keep a cheap seat post handy just
> > for using when you clamp your bike in the stand. I really don't like any
> > clamping on any tubes.
> >
> > Brian Baylis
> > La Mesa, CA
> > >
> > > Many of us don't have enough seatpost showing to allow clamping the bike
> > > by the seatpost. If we did, we'd be riding kids' bikes. I clamp my
> > > bikes by the seattube all the time and, while I have smushed a decal or
> > > two, I've never damaged the metal underneath.
> > >
> > > Steve "vertically challenged" Freides
> > >
> > > Mark Poore wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Nice stem, but ouch on the seat tube. I bought a Mercian that had the
> > > > seattube slightly pinched by a person that clamped the bike in the
> stand
> > > > like the one pictured. The seatpost is much harder to damage!
> > > >
> > > > Mark, frost on the pumpkins this morning, Poore
> > > >
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