Bike Fork Work Stand Area One 3D print model

A workstand holds your bike firmly and off the floor so you can do repair and maintenance work more easily. You don’t have to spend a fortune to get a perfectly decent one.

Eventually you get fed up of trying to work on a bike that’s leaning against the kitchen bench or — the horror! — upside down in the shed. You’ve seen the beefy static workstands shop mechanics use and want some of that action at home. It’s time to take your mechanic-fu up a step and get a workstand.

I designed a professional-level repair stand that's strong and stable, specially suited for carbon road bike. The beam design allowing it to support the bottom bracket and hold either the front or rear dropouts so there's no need to clamp either the frame or seatpost.

Most repair stands feature a clamp that you tighten around the seatpost but my design entirely different, in that your bike is supported by a central beam. You whip one of the wheels off, rest the bottom bracket shell on its support on that beam, and then secure the dropouts on the quick release axle.

Once your bike is fixed in place, the the stand holds it firm and secure, although bikes with sloping bottom bracket shells aren't as stable as others. Whether you're adjusting the gears or brakes or doing something that requires a bit more force, the stand is more than strong enough. The wide base is really steady on a flat floor, each of the three aluminum legs extending outwards 60cm from the center.