New tool would be a better title, but it sounds more boring that way

I always found it very frustrating to clean my bike, so I have (eventually) forked out for something thatll make it a whole lot easier.

Got it from www.chainreactioncycles.com, they do an unbranded sort of one, but this was only £10 more (a somewhat scary £79.99) and its a widely trusted brand, so anyway.. pics





Its pretty high quality all over, id say - and very heavy. It certainly wont fall over in a hurry.

Minor gripe:


Ill have to take the saddle bag off, move my saddle up, before hanging it on there and then down again and put the saddle bag back on (or ditch that, and find another way of storing inner-tube, levers etc) as unfortunately the height I have my saddle leaves less post than the length of the clasp

it fits in there without moving the saddle up, and holds the bike well enough (albeit at a slight angle) but I dunno if I *fully* trust it with my racer if I was actually working on it due to the scary materials its made from :? admittedly the seat-post on mine is metal, so I could always just wind the torque right up without worry!!

Anyway.. one Park Tools addict coming right up..  what do I order next, that blue is too cool

Park Tools pizza cutter or loo roll holder

http://www.cyclesense.co.uk/products.php?plid=m2b31s323p1673
http://www.bonthronebikes.co.uk/438-3112

You are seriously one flash harry , did you really need to spend £89 on that?! in reality, how much work are you going to be doing on a bike to require one of those? ive ridden bikes for over 15 years and at no point have i ever thought, "i could do with a bike stand...", money to burn!

money to burn? hardly.. I consider it to be well expensive for a bike stand really..  just about the cheapest one I could find. There was a £70 one instead, but for £10 more I figured the brand-name was worth it

I couldnt stand leaning it against a wall or things like that, its a real pain in the ass... so stand it had to be