Park Tool Deluxe Home Mechanic Repair Stand

It’s a great stand. What made me buy this over the plethora of $90 stands, was that the clamping mechanism on this stand is made of metal. And the other stands in videos, just seemed to creak and make noise when you put any amount of torque onto the bike while you were working on it. This stand doesn’t have that problem. It’s solid.

OK, so as other have said it’s a significant outlay and having a stand already that I’m unhappy with thought I would give this a go. I’ve always been very pleased with the Parktools in the past.

The box it came packed in was excellent and no problems there. Packaging was great and did it’s job.

The stand needs some assembly and when I read the instructions yes they were comprehensive but the terminology was new to me (even as an engineer). However there is a very good short You Tube tutorial and was brilliant. I only made one change which was to put the round headed bolts on the outside of the leg of the stand rather than have the nut on the outside face. Other than that assembly was fine.

In use it’s absolutely brilliant, stable and great to be able to have height and orientation adjustment. One reason I wanted this bike stand is for bleeding my brakes in the future and being able to rotate to get rid of any air bubbles in the pipes. Once the bike is clamped it’s clamped no fear of it coming loose or wobbly.

It’s certainly a sturdy stand and being able to fold into a reasonably small footprint was very helpful. I also like the fact that I will if needed be able to buy spare parts.

I should have bought this stand years ago. My previous Kestrel stand was OK but this knocks it into a cocked hat. Pleased with the investment and I’m sure will make maintenance of my bikes much easier.

This stand is very well made and is a pleasure to use because of it’s well-thought-out design and heavy construction. I feel like the oval steel frame tube is what makes it so functional. Park Tool specified the perfect gauge and diameter of tubing for sturdiness without making the stand ridiculously heavy.

One of my bikes is an all-carbon e-gravel bike in X-Large and I would not want to clamp the frame in the clamp for fear of fracturing or causing micro-cracks in the carbon while working on it. It does clamp the solid carbon seat-post just fine but the bike will have a nose-down attitude unless you rotate the bike and clamp the stand’s pivot tight to hold the bike level. While this works, it can be a lot of stress on the seat post and seat tube that it may not be designed to take. This is a testament to the strength of the stand, I’m just not sure I want my bike to be under so much torque while wrenching on it.

My recommendation for carbon bikes is to either clamp the seat post and leave the bike in a somewhat nose-down attitude where it naturally wants to balance, or do what I did, spend another $150 on the best bike stand accessory ever, the Silca Hirobel Frame Clamp (Google it). This clamps in the Park Tool clamp horizontally and allows the top tube of the bike to cradle on two soft pads. I know it sounds like a lot of money for minimal functionality but it’s a must for carbon frames and I would consider it a good purchase for aluminum frames as well. It also makes it easier to mount and unmount heavier bikes from the stand.

The other nice accessory I bought that increases the stability of the bike on the stand is the Park Tool handlebar stabilizer, HBH-3. It’s $50 but much nicer and more versatile than the bent wire holder that Park Tool also sells. It’s very well designed and I use it between the handlebar and the head of the bike stand which holds the handlebars from turning as well as stabilizing the bike on the stand a bit.

I know this seems like a lot of money to spend on something that merely holds bikes so they can be worked on, but it takes all the tedium out of cleaning, upgrading and maintaining a bike. I can justify it by the money I DON’T spend by having the work done at a local bike shop.

The Park Tool Bike Stand is just as good as I thought it would be with no big disappointments. While it’s not sold as a travel stand, it’s easy enough to break down small enough that it’s practical to throw it in your car if you want to work on your bike somewhere else and are not otherwise cramped for car space.

Habe den Montageständer im April 2024 in Wien bei der Fahrradmesse in Aktion gesehen. Die Monteure waren von dem Montageständer begeistert, um so mehr, da er sehr einfach von A nach B zu transportieren ist.
In der Zwischenzeit kann ich aus Erfahrung sagen, daß er sehr sicher und einfach zu bedienen ist.

Ne prend pas beaucoup de place, c’est appréciable si vous vivez dans petit. Idéal pour une utilisation non pro.

Bémols :
– il faut une plus grande surface au sol pour pouvoir étendre les pieds qu’un modèle socle non pliable.
– un balcon est un peu penché, or ce modèle l’es déjà dans sa conception, donc il faudra compenser avec des cales pour qu’il ne souffre pas de trop, ou le mettre du bon côté pour qu’il tende vers la verticalité.
– Attention tous les trois remontages vérifier la visserie, elle se défait naturellement et ça provoque immédiatement un jeu. Or le jeu sur des pièces articulées en Alu, c’est le mal. Ne serrez pas non plus comme un malade, il suffit de penser à checker.

I finally got tired of my cheap work stand collapsing or tipping over and invested in a quality Park Tool unit. It is fairly heavy and very stable. Assembly was a bit fiddly, but can be done in about 30 minutes. Park provides a good YouTube video to guide the process. Overall, very satisfied with my purchase.
After using the stand for a few weeks some other thoughts;
Pros
-Extremely stable and well built; this is likely to be the last repair stand you ever buy.
Cons
-with great stability comes great weight. More of an observation than a con I suppose, but it is a chore to move around if you don’t have a permanent spot for it.
-the clamp sticks when being revolved. I contacted Park about this and they sent me a new set of attachment cones. Park recommends that these be sanded prior to installation and this does seem to help.
After some use, still very satisfied with the product with these minor caveats.