Thanks for tuning in today we're going to be reviewing the Pro Bike Tool Floor Stand.
Whether you only have one bike or one too many bikes floor stands are great portable way to store
them or display them. You don't have to worry about putting holes in the wall as floor stands
are free standing and are easily portable as well. What we have here today is the Pro Bike
Tool floor stand which combines their great accessibility in high quality with a simple
single bike floor stand. As you can see here packaging is really simple.
I really like the newer products just have cardboard box, no real color just black ink right
on top and assembly instructions, what's included everything's just printed right on top of
it. So let's go ahead and figure out how to open up the box and we can go over the specs.
Retail price on this is only $55 dollars it's a pretty good price it's a compact floor stand.
It has a steel construction and can support up to 66 pounds or 30 kilograms so should work
with a wide range of bikes it has a wide wheel holder as well so this can accommodate everything
from 0.7 inch wide tires all the way up to 2.2 inches so great for mountain bikes, road bikes
and everything in between. There's some assembly required as you can see
so what you get with it is you get the instruction packet that shows you how to put together which
is also printed on the box itself some of the parts to actually put the legs together
and then you'll see in here these appear to be the actual legs so these actually have to be assembled
using the provided hardware. It's a matte black finish which is the only color they currently offer.
Now there's a minor assembly required you can see the cross legs are not attached directly out
of the box. So you have to take the bolts line them through and then you want to put them on
the side with the indentation. Line them with the bottom of the stand and then simply thread them on.
The back one we found a little bit tight as the holes are a little close together
but you can easily adjust that just by applying a little bit of pressure
on this to pull them a little bit wider and once they line up just take the allen bolt
and then tighten it down. Finally you want to put the
little rubber stands on so these just slide into place
and with that it's ready to go. They also provide some leveling
pads here so you can put that between the screws if this isn't level
so if you have a little bit uneven floor you can use that to adjust for it.
Now let's go over the fit and finish of the Pro Bike Tool floor stand pretty simple design.
You can see a compact form factor as well steel construction with this matte black textured finish.
Surprising there's no red highlights or anything that we're usually used to with the Pro Bike Tool
products, it's an all-black design. It is a pivot arm design as well so you can see the
top arm pivots back and then that accommodates your wheel so you can put your front wheel or
rear wheel here and then when you're done with it you just apply some force and pull it back.
The arms are non-folding you can see they're solid steel as you saw during the attachment part
so this is as small as it gets. As far as the pivoting you can see it has a simple
tab button here you don't actually need to press it, you just apply pressure so when it's
in the stored position you can see that gold tab there then when you want to open it you just pull
and now you can see it's actually there and you can see how that will adjust so if you have a
bigger bike like a mountain bike that'll go wide. If you have road bike it'll go a little bit closer
so quite adjustable and this should work for everything from mountain bikes to road bikes.
The other nice thing about this is you have this wheel cradle so you can see the center section
these are actually hinged so if you have a very small wheel
it'll adjust if you have a big wheel i'll stay in this bigger position. The other nice trick so
same thing on the back so these are adjustable. You want to get your wheel right down the middle
and the other simple trick is the cone on the top so this will cradle your wheel and to
accommodate different sizes you have the cylindrical shape that kind of tapers down
so a little tiny wheel will go in the middle big mountain bike will go in the larger section
and it's all plastic here as well as this part so really simple design and should keep your bike
safe without really damaging the frame or really touching any part of it aside from the tires.
Now let's take a look at the floor stand in action. Here you can see it with our Specialized Tarmac.
It's a very simple design you just roll the bike right on and once it's
on there you can see it really stays in place even if you were to hit the
bike by accident it won't really tilt. You really have to shove the bike to get it off
and here on the wood floors you see those rubber end caps don't work that well but on carpet or
other material it should work. We really like the cradle design too you can see the bottom
hinged pieces kind of fold into place as you put the bike on and the top cone holds the tire in
place as well with a little spring-loaded swing arm really providing good stability.
Now lets do a little comparison between the Pro Bike Tool floor stand and other floor stands we've reviewed.
You can see we actually have two variations here we have a higher end Topeak Lineup.
You can see very compact if we put them on top of each other
the big thing about the Topeak is that the arms actually fold inward so you can see it really
reduces the floor space so when they're open they're almost identical but when it's closed this
is something you throw in a backpack and something we often do with a lot of our video shoots
where we throw it in our backpack and ride with it. Now it's something you can't really do with the
non-folding design, otherwise very similar you have the top wheel cradle which is the cone shape.
You have the pivot arm design and then the big difference here is you don't have these nice
spring-loaded pieces it just has a little cut out to accommodate different tires and then
much nicer finish. With this chrome finish and the yellow highlights the other difference here is the
pivot arm you can see same design but it has a release button so you just pull back push down
and then it folds and just pull up so a nicer design rather than just forcing it.
You can depress that and release it with the Pro Bike Tool which you force it through.
The other cheap stand we've reviewed is the Maxxhaul and you can see if i put these
side by side almost identical, fixed legs so this one came pre-assembled I believe.
It is much cheaper than the Pro Bike Tool a similar steel finish with a little bit of texture.
Same pivot arm design but again i think Pro Bike Tool has done a nice job with
these little spring-loaded wheel cradles while this just has a cutout.
The other thing i don't actually like about the Maxxhaul version is that to release it there's
actually a button so you have to pull this tab and i'll show you here it's really hard to do
so to actually release it and it's hard to do with the camera here. You have to pull back
and then also pull on that relief for it to go down so it's kind of the worst combination so
you have a button but it's hard to reach because it's all the way on the bottom. With the Pro
Bike Tool just force it down and i'll click down so a better compromise between the two I think.
Now let's go over the pros and cons for the Pro Bike Tool floor stand. What we like about it is it
has a premium build quality it's really well designed with the steel construction. The
hinged cradles on the bottom are clever trick that allows it to support a wide range of tires.
It also has a very durable design which means you can use this with up to 66.2 pound bikes
which should cover most e-bikes on the market. Some of the cons for the stand is that has
non-folding legs which means it's not quite as portable as some other models on the market.
It can just lay flat but not quite as small and that swing arm doesn't have a button to close it.
Instead you have to pull it and then retract it down to fold it would've been nice to see a
little tab release button right on top. Taking everything into account would give the floor
stand a 9.0 out of 10. It's a well-built floor stand that can work with a wide variety of bikes.
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