Agreed. It’s just some simple fabricated metal and plastic parts and fasteners. Heck, Park neither assembles it nor calibrates it and it sells for $140. Silly! Plus you can’t use the DT-3 rotor truing tool with this stand.
This stand should cost less than half of what Park charges for it. It’s just some simple metal fabricated parts, with no calibration or assembly on Park’s part. Ridiculous that this sells for $140.
Great video. Debating whether or not I should buy a truing stand. What other brands did you look at? Likes dislikes of the other stands? Cheers. Very good explanation. Thanks
I looked at the higher end park tool, and a Bikehand brand stand primarily; I've had good experience with a Bikehand maintenance stand. It came down to knowing that Park Tool would be good quality; with anything else, there weren't a lot of reviews. I also like the weight/ability of the Park Tool stand to sit on a table and be completely stable (due to it's heavy build), but still be portable.
Can you do radial truing with this stand or does it just do lateral truing only? I'm going to be building my own wheel and will need to do both. Thanks!
I could see buying a higher end park tool model if you were actually building wheels, but if you're just truing wheels up, I think this will do the job very well.
if you're just starting out, build your own truing stand, it's quite simple, plenty of guide available. if you have a limited budget, spend the money on a tensionmeter first.
@@MTMXBL I ended up buying a Minoura stand and it has worked out well so far. Just saved a wheel that was pretty taco’d. Thank you the tip about the tensionmeter.
@@BuggSmasher Minoura Minoura FT-1 Portable Wheel Truing Stand on sale from Wayfair. It’s been great for me so far. I was going to get a used Park Tool but the seller never replied. Happy w my purchase. Going to get a spoke tensionmeter next.
There are much cheaper truing stands out there, this is the cheapest option from Park Tool. I don't view pointing out the limitations of an item (things that are important to know when you are buying something) as a bad thing in a review.
Cheapest does not mean cheap. And it is park tool, a company known for good quality, no matter what price. Having to hammer screws in is just awful produced and needed to say.
