What Do You Use a Bike Stand For Anyway?
The bicycle repair stand is an important piece of maintenance equipment. The workstand secures your bike and enables you to undertake repairs, using both hands, while you perform maintenance on your bike.
Bike workstands come in many different shapes and sizes. See our Bicycle Repair Stand guide for more information.
Why Buy A Bike Stand?
A bicycle repair stand is incredibly useful when fixing or servicing your bike. It will raise your bike off from the ground at a comfortable height, and securely hold it. This frees you up to focus on your repairs/maintenance, with both hands. The alternative is trying to hold the bike with one hand and your tools with the other!
Choosing the Right Workstand
Visit our Bicycle Repair Stand and Bike Repair Stand Buying Guide for more in-depth information. If you want to build a bicycle workstand, we even have a DIY page.
A Tutorial On Tuning Up Your Bike
In this tutorial, the Global Cycling Network demonstrates how with a tune-up, your bicycle using a bike stand.
A Lesson On Wheel Truing Using – A Bike Repair Stand
Bicycle wheels need truing from time to time – simply from constant use, or following a bike crash.
Ever wondered what wheel truing was … or how to do it?
This video by SickBiker shows you just how to go about it, using your bike stand.
Another Lesson On Wheel Truing – But Using A Truing Wheel Stand
In this video, Daniel Lloyd explains how to straighten your wheels using a Truing Wheel.