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