Foes Power Clamp - Automated Bike Clamp
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Browsing Decline’s site and saw this automatic/pneumatic stand that works off of a foot pedal and an air compressor. If you’ve ever lifted a heavy bike up to put it in a stand you realize the greatness of this product. Its no surprise this comes from a downhill company like Foes. Check it out.
Foes Power Clamp
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October 17th, 2007 at 1:32 am
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…when you need to design an air-assisted lift to work on your DH rig, something has gone horribly wrong…
If Foes continues to follow this paradigm, expect to see the Mono 2:1 on the wheelset off of a Honda 250 in the future.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Haha, that’d be awesome if it lifted the bike too. Its just the arm that clamps down so you don’t have to fiddle with clamping the bike once you have it raised.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Ah - I stand corrected.
I need to slow down and read more carefully.
My bad.
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October 19th, 2007 at 7:26 am
was my first impression too, that it could lift the bike up.
Someone who has worked with a bike stand knows how dificult is to raise the bike with one hand and try to close or open the clamp with the other. I had trouble with mine (14kg), imagine with a 18/20kg DH rig
October 30th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Way back in the 1960s or 1970s, Park made a pneumatic repair stand. You never see them any more. I had 3 of them in a shop I used to own in the late 1970s. There were a few problems:
1. If you didn’t know to regulate the air pressure to about 60psi, and if you grabbed a bike by the frame instead of the seatpost, it could crush the frame tube.
2.Mechanics always learned the hard way not to grab a bike around a decal.
3. There wasn’t much safety consideration with these things. It was all too easy to step on the activating footpedal while holding the bike in such a way that your hand would get clamped. I don’t know anyone who was injured, but it was always a concern. Also, you could drop a wrench on the footpedal, and the bike would fall to the floor. This usually seemed to happen when a customer was watching.
Have fun!
- Jeff
http://www.odd-bikes.com