Thanks for tuning in today we're going to be reviewing the Pro Bike Tool upright bike floor
stand. When it comes to storing bikes vertical stands are the most efficient option as they
free up valuable floor space. Most vertical bike stands require drilling holes in the wall
or are bulky designs that lean up against the wall. The pro-bike tool vertical floor bike stand is a
unique hybrid combination that combines the portability of a floor stand that doesn't
require any holes or any drilling with an upright design that actually holds your bike vertically.
You can see packaging-wise really simple has their nice cardboard box. Everything's printed directly
on it directly with the black ink this is a big box too as it's a larger stand. You have all the
contents of the bike actually of the stand printed right on here with indicators of what they are and
then the instructions are essentially printed on here as well. So you can just follow the diagrams
to put it together let's go ahead and take it out of the box and we'll go over the specs. So retail
price on this is $60 so pretty affordable for what it is. It is an upright floor stance so no drilling
required. It has a height adjustable design unlike some other floor stands that do vertical bikes
so it can actually be adjusted to accommodate different style bikes or heights of seat posts.
It combines a plastic metal construction and that'll support right up to 44
pounds or 22 kilogram bikes so it should accommodate a lot of cruisers, road bikes
and maybe some heavier e-bikes. It should work with most bikes on the market.
It also fits up to 2.3 inch wide tire so pretty uh flexible design and it doesn't actually hold
on your components or anything it just supports the wheel and the seatpost so a nice non-contact
design that won't rub against any valuable components or mud guards or anything else so
very flexible. In terms of what comes with it you can see it's quite a lot so there's a lot
of pieces. Here you have the feet extension you have the main part so you have the feet that go
on here the little rubber stands you have the elastic strap and this will actually support
the front wheel and that'll prevent it from moving around. This thing even supports bikes
with fenders as you can see here it doesn't actually touch anything so as long as it doesn't
extend further than the bottom portion where the a wheel would sit you should have no trouble. You
have all the hardware you need, the little mounting plates so some of these are plastic as you can see
but they're quite strong you can see this dual layer design this honeycomb
gives a little more rigidity. You have the different mounting bar so the longer shorter ones
and then the actual part that connects to your seat post would be this and that's vertical
with this nice rubber design so pretty flexible so it shouldn't damage anything.
Now let's go over the assembly of the mount you can see there's quite a few parts here but
they're all really nicely labeled and then the instructions here are simply step one two three
all the way up to seven. It would be nice that these diagrams were kind of blown up with a little bit
of more text instead of putting them on one page but you can see it's fairly straightforward. We
have two legs a short and a long one long one goes on the rear short one goes in the front.
We have the seat post mount this longer vertical piece that'll go down the center hole and then you
have some bolt attachments and then it looks like a little piece underneath it to secure
it. So you can see combination of plastic metal arms and these nice little hinged wheel holders
so go ahead and get started we'll put the seat post mount with the bolt holes facing forward
down into the hole. We'll take our long rear piece
and then slide it through with the little indentation pointing downward.
Now we'll take our arm piece for the bottom i took off the top one
as it's kind of in the way for this part so now install the front piece. We have the two little
rubber spacers here so put those on and then slide that in
you have the little rubber footings too simple plastic pieces not the highest quality but you
can see a nice rubber design so it won't scratch your floor. You just want to force these on
next we'll take our bottom plate and use our three screws you can see it has a little alignment pin
so put that through and then you can see these are actually phillips heads which
are not included so you will need to get a screwdriver to complete the installation.
The final step is to put the seat post mount on and the bottom bolt
once you have that in the assembly is complete and you're ready to use the mount.
Now let's take a look at the mount in action all you need to do is roll the bike on there with
the rear tire and then flip it backwards until the seat post is on the support. They also have
a little front wheel strap to hold it in place but it actually balances so you can see here
it's nice and vertical and perfectly stable. The legs are pretty wide too so you can actually hit
the mount and the bike won't fall especially if you put the elastic wheel strap on taking
off is simply sliding it down and then rolling out forward. Then again you can see those
little hinged bottom mounts that really support the bottom wheel and again you just flip it up
and flip it down so really nice design and it's great to have this hybrid floor stand and vertical
stand. To kind of give you a comparison of how this performs versus a vertical stand as we
have done the Pro Bike Tool vertical swivel mount you can see here we have the swivel mount on the wall.
So the big difference with the wall mount is the fact that you can mounted tires forward so it's
more efficient design but it does obviously require the hole. So you can see we have it
on swivel mount there so it fits right up against the wall and you can see much more efficient than
this vertical stand which leaves the seat post sticking out. Just as a point of comparison
Pro Bike Tools normal floor stand here tons of wasted space as it
requires a lot of extra floor space and all that vertical space is just left open.
Now let's go over the pros and cons for the upright floor stand. What we like about it is it
has a metal construction so really well designed as with a lot of Pro Bike Tool parts. It also has a
portable design with that clever vertical storage so it's really a hybrid between a floor stand and
a vertical stand that doesn't require any holes. It also has a vertically adjustable seat post
support so that means it can support a wide range of bikes. The main con for this kind of stand
is that it may require removing the saddlebag or your tail light in order to sit on that seatpost
support. Taking everything into account would give the upright floor stand a 9.2 out of 10.
It's a very clever hybrid mount that combines the portability of a floor stand with a space-saving
design of vertical storage. Thanks for watching this review don't forget to like and subscribe.
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