If you search the forums a bit, you will find all kinds of homemade repair or shop stands for trikes, generally made of PVC pipe. I have a better one, one which gets the trike up at a nice height for working on stuff. It is also very stable, and will hold the trike horizontal, vertical, or any angle in between. It is a Park PCS-9, and sells for about $130 at Park Tools. However, there is one critical modification that has to be made to make it strong enough to hold trikes, and that is to make a metal bushing to replace the plastic one that it comes with. The legs fold up to make it easy to store or transport.
I was lucky enough to get one by Bruce, but I don’t know if has any more for this unit. The bushing to replace looks like this:
I do have a handful of these ready to ship. I can always make more.
I have the Parkside Model PCS-10. It’s very similar to the PCS-9 that you have. Do you know if mine also should have this bushing change?
I could not tell from your post where this bushing is located. Is it in the back of the main clamp – that allows for rotation of the trike? I have been doing this without any failures. Is the problem one of potential failure, because of the extra weight and center of gravity of the trike?
Thanks,
John
The bushing is right next to the lever that locks the clamping head in position. I think the issue is that a trike puts more strain on the bushing and the PCS-9 has a plastic one, and some of them cracked under the strain. If yours is working, you are good till it breaks, and maybe it won’t break. I assume the PCS-10 is similar to the PCS-9, but I don’t know for sure.