Unfortunately, most of that type of stand don't work with electric bikes because the weight distribution of the bike is all wrong for it. Also the weight of electric bikes is just too much for them. That can sometimes be improved by removing the battery, but that can bring the weight distribution problem.
For an electric bike, the stands with the indexed locking clamps are much better, though they're more expensive.
Please let us know how it works with your bike.
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I certainly will. I've had a good clearout & purge at my HQ over the last couple of days & mothballed my m/cycles for the winter, it's now hoovered out & ready for the stand & bike. I'll post some pics of the stand in action. It'll handle the Woosh easily with or without battery, with the stands legs splayed open it's going nowhere & won't topple over, you could even fix it to the floor but i won't. This stand is much better than the one i saw in Halfords, if this stand cost 40 quid i wonder what you get for 140+ as seen on the internet?
I'm looking forward to playing with it all, nothing like pottering about in a warm HQ, kettle on with the dulcet tones of radio 2 in the background & getting wound-up listening to the Jeremy Vine show.
I think my 7 speed Shimano gearbox needs a bit of adjustment as the gears sometimes chatter so i shall work on that using the manual & the knowledge gleaned from my youth when i had a 5 gear racer from halfords back in good 'ol 76 - What a summer that was if your old enough to remember.
I think i might invest in some decent inner brake cables as i reckon the standard ones may be a bit stretchy or past their best & i want them to glide nice 'n silky.
Yup, getting this ebike has brought back a lot of memories. I enjoyed cycling & exploring everywhere & anywhere on my bike as a young Toecutter. A pushbike was a necessity to get about & have fun with your mates, you needed one, it was a tool. The orchards & open spaces of Kent beckoned you, we'd go fruit picking in the summer holidays riding to different farms on our bikes going from our homes more or less as the crow flies riding the edges of fields passing our bikes over the odd fence & riding a few country roads.
We went everywhere as kids on our bikes which we mostly customised with Cowhorn handlebars, short mudguards & a half-decent seat, it was also the done thing to have only the rear brake fitted & tweeked so you could perform super-long rear wheel skids, my bike had a Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub which was much better than a single sprocket & a 3 speed rear wheel was a much sought after upgrade so were centre pull brakes but a well maintained side pull brake with decent brake blocks worked pretty good.
I remember getting an odometer for Xmas one year i was ecstatic as i loved gizmos to do with my treasured bike. It was a mechanical counter with a cog that went round tripped by a thingy attached to a spoke i can't remember how you calibrated it & it was probably next to useless on the accuracy front. Now look at what you can get for peanuts that works & is as accurate as your setting-up. Marvellous!
The lights for bikes these days are incredible - a far cry from the silver 'Pifco' or 'EverReady' ones. The batteries wouldn't last 5 minutes & you tried not to switch them if you could help it. I used to squeeze every last watt or volt out of them by leaving them on the top of the fire to warm them up before going out. You could fit a Dynamo powered set of lights but they'd go out when the wheel stopped moving - How crap is that? lol Yes, thanks to LED's & better battery technology those dimly lit foggy evenings are a thing of the past.
Lets start a campaign to bring back the good old sturdy 'rod pull brakes' Remember them? Usually fitted to old fashioned bikes of the era & Postmens bikes had them. I had a 'fixed wheel' bike once, the pedals always went round so they would often dig in or catch something as you were going along.
I grew up near Dartford on the Fleet Estate which was a new estate about a mile from the now Bluewater shopping centre which used to be two giant chalk quarry's with the remains of the quarry plant scattered about & crystal clear rivers & lakes that were icy cold that nothing could live in as the water was very alkaline due to the chalk. They were also building the first Dartford tunnel & the beginnings of the M25 & there were huge earthworks everywhere right on my doorstep, it was a great playground for us & our bikes.
Au revoir but not goodbye.
Toecutter.