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Originally Posted by MattTuck
Not so much a question for Silca, but why wasn't "compatible with typical work stands" one of the design requirements when people started making carbon frames?
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Matt, remember that the repair stand clamp was designed 40 years ago for round steel tubing which was 1 to 1 1/8" outer diameter and had some robust wall thickness.. then came aluminum, and clamps were notorious for crushing early Klein and Cannondale frames in the 90's... then carbon happened, but it was round tubed for a while.. and for even longer, we had traditional seat posts so you could either clamp the seat post or use the Park seat post thing.. until bikes got light enough that the compression wedge on that tool started blowing through the seat tubes..
Now we are in a place where our demands on the bikes are pretty severe, we want them to be lighter, more comfortable, stiffer, etc.. and we can do this with carbon, but in many cases the designers are then adding back material to try and mitigate damage from work stands.. so in a way the work stand has become a limiting factor for moving frame design forward. This is why the Wiggins Pinarello hour record bike just had it's own Hirobel from the start, it meant that the designers never had to even consider or worry about this type of damage during the development.
Oh, and MikeJ it grips multiple tubes in a way that it doesn't swing.