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John Proton
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PostPosted: 16:00 - 16 Jul 2025    Post subject: Recommend me a rear paddock stand please Reply with quote
After a recent accident with a rear paddock stand, I need to buy a new one.

I don't want an Abba stand as I'll only use the stand for cleaning the rear wheel and cleaning & lubricating the chain.

Has anyone bought one recently and could you please share the information on what you bought and where from?

Thank you
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PostPosted: 17:38 - 16 Jul 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote
its a basic tool. just buy something cheap.
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Kawasaki Jimbo
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PostPosted: 18:25 - 16 Jul 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote
I’ve had a couple, and the Oxford Premium Rear Paddock Stand was the most stable (but note the reviews regarding it hitting the number plate on some bikes; very odd). However, rear paddock stands always felt awkward to use and I’ve scratched swingarms with them; more so with bobbins than with cups. Maybe that’s just me.

Since buying an Abba Stand that’s all I use, it’s so much easier and secure, although if you chop and change bikes a lot you might wind up buying lots of adaptors to fit different swingarm pivot points.
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John Proton
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PostPosted: 20:07 - 16 Jul 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
I’ve had a couple, and the Oxford Premium Rear Paddock Stand was the most stable (but note the reviews regarding it hitting the number plate on some bikes; very odd). However, rear paddock stands always felt awkward to use and I’ve scratched swingarms with them; more so with bobbins than with cups. Maybe that’s just me.

Since buying an Abba Stand that’s all I use, it’s so much easier and secure, although if you chop and change bikes a lot you might wind up buying lots of adaptors to fit different swingarm pivot points.


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John Proton
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PostPosted: 17:54 - 20 Jul 2025    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm thinking of the Oxford premium rear paddock stand. Bikesportshop are selling it for £61.

Theres cheaper ones about at half the price 
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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 20:53 - 20 Jul 2025    Post subject: Re: Recommend me a rear paddock stand please Reply with quote
John Proton wrote:


I don't want an Abba stand as I'll only use the stand for cleaning the rear wheel and cleaning & lubricating the chain.


Block of wood propped under the swingarm then?
https://youtu.be/FLcSoE0ju7s?si=hzeLUXwB9HGLAvUI
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Kawasaki Jimbo
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PostPosted: 21:50 - 20 Jul 2025    Post subject: Re: Recommend me a rear paddock stand please Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
John Proton wrote:


I don't want an Abba stand as I'll only use the stand for cleaning the rear wheel and cleaning & lubricating the chain.


Block of wood propped under the swingarm then?
https://youtu.be/FLcSoE0ju7s?si=hzeLUXwB9HGLAvUI

Is that all you use in the shed, or is it your ‘make do’ suggestion?
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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 06:55 - 21 Jul 2025    Post subject: Re: Recommend me a rear paddock stand please Reply with quote
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:

Is that all you use in the shed, or is it your ‘make do’ suggestion?


Nah, I have a bike lift table and one of those scissor-lift platforms if I need to do anything involved or remove the wheel.

In fairness, for cleaning a wheel or lubing a chain, if it's a bike with no mainstand, I don't even use the block of woold, I just push the bike over towards the sidestand with one hand and turn the wheel with the other.

I've never had a lot of success using paddock stands, high risk of dropping the bike getting it on them and it always seems to land up in the way of whatever part you're trying to work on. I think it would be different if you had the type that you fit lift bobbins to the swingarm for. I actually own several paddock stands, they are all in my lockup mouldering away because I stopped using them as they were too much of a fiddle in use and in the way the rest of the time.
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