Birzman Feexstand

The Birzman Feexstand makes use of the normal chain storage stand and provides the power to interact the drivetrain with a fork. When you’re actually pressed for house, it could possibly give you the results you want, simply know all of the items a house wants. And the worth.

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Bike storage is usually a problem in case you dwell in an condo or if you do not have a devoted house like a storage. Or perhaps you’ll want to work together with your bike indoors and don’t desire it resting on furnishings. Or perhaps you journey and need storage and portability in a single package deal.

At a penny underneath £140, the Feexstand is actually not an inexpensive choice as you may decide up any of the twelve chain stands for round £20. The additional £120 in worth should come from the hybrid performance of having the ability to flip the stand 90 levels to permit the drivetrain to work, attaching to the stand through the entrance axle.

First, as a sequence stand, the Feexstand is just about the identical as different fashions on the market – you hook your chainsaw and bike seat over the 2 hooks and there you go.

The peak of the hooks is adjustable as a unit to get issues proper. The peak is adjusted by turning the decrease hook after which sliding the meeting up or down.

You are restricted to a most chainstay or seatpost width of 23mm, which then creates some instability in case your prime mounts are thinner, because the bike does not grip effectively, inflicting entrance wheel drop that wants managing. If somebody passes and brushes the bike, it would transfer. It will be good to see Birzman introduce some type of spring loading inside the highest hook to cease this from occurring. Additionally, for the cash, adjustable hooks could be good, as some bikes will wrestle to slot in the preset spacing.

To mount the fork, there’s a worm gear with a number of fork axle diameters and drop widths to accommodate. Included within the set are caps for conventional QRs (bear in mind these?), commonplace 12 and 15mm and 110mm (“Enhance”) 15 and 20mm axles.

Every commonplace (no pinch) is 2 caps, which means you’ve got 10 finish caps or eight unfastened at any given time for storage. It will have been good if Birzman had considered some choice to retailer them within the stand, perhaps on little overhangs or one thing.

The tip caps press on fairly simply and keep in place till they must be eliminated.

As a fork mount mount there’s the same old caveat that in case you have a protracted entrance mudguard fitted it will not work. And by “far”, mainly if it is quite a lot of inches under a line drawn between the entrance axle and the BB.

Then it is mounting it – you are taking off your entrance wheel, maintain the axle, place the bike on its BB, then decrease the fork over the axle-specific inserts you remembered to suit. You’ll be able to slide the fork base forwards and backwards, locking it in place with a big lever.

The act of crossing the shaft can also be a bit hit or miss and requires some pushing and turning to get dwelling.

As soon as stabilized, the general package deal is sort of secure and can survive an inexpensive push from the aspect. It is positively secure sufficient to spin the cranks with a little bit gore throughout a shift or cleansing/lubricating the chain.

When you use a type of chain baths (which do an unimaginable job of evenly distributing the wonderful hair so detrimental to chains, however that is one other viewpoint) try to be conscious that the angle of the chain now factors considerably in the direction of the down, so liquid is extra more likely to spill out the entrance.

Weight restrict

Though the utmost weight is listed as 25kg, I’d not advocate utilizing the Feexstand to drop or clear an e-mountain bike or Dutch bike – the soundness offered at this top for such a weight may be very questionable, the opportunity of a heavy tipping the bike too excessive.

To be sincere, for the added stability and stability, leaving the entrance wheel open and lifting the rear wheel utilizing the chain/seat mode will cowl most wants. Which actually begs the “why spend an additional £120 within the first place?” Query.

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When it comes to worth, Birzman actually has a problem right here to show that £140 is affordable. As compared, for £25, the Minoura Chainstay moveable stand appears like an actual cracker. It folds flat and the bike is balanced on each stands. The width can also be adjustable.

Jon moderately preferred the Topeak Tune-Up Stand X now priced at £74.99, which does not have the fork mount facet, but when the job is to raise the rear wheel whereas conserving the bike upright, it will get the job achieved.

conclusion

General, I wrestle with Feexstand’s worth proposition. As a chainstay, it is not likely that completely different from others that price a fraction of the worth. For journey use it doesn’t fold. And for fork-mounted duties, there’s little you may’t do on this setup which you can’t do utilizing the chainstay configuration.

Kudos to Birzman for attempting to create a brand new hybrid desktop product, however the execution is missing. If it was extra adjustable to suit extra frames, and was collapsible and had finish cap storage, I might price it as a viable product even on the hefty £140 price ticket. As it’s, it is laborious to advocate.

Verdict

It appears to mix the positioning and fork options, however struggles with general worth