Bicycles

Hangar Connect claims title of "world's smallest bike stand"

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The Hangar Connect sells for US$225
Altangle
The Hangar Connect, connected to a van ladder
Altangle
The Hangar Connect sells for US$225
Altangle
The Hangar Connect is 14 inches long (356 mm)
Altangle
The Hangar Connect reportedly tips the scales at 3 lb (1.4 kg), and is designed for use with bikes weighing up to 55 lb (25 kg)
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While bicycle repair stands certainly come in handy, they can be rather awkward to bring on road trips, or to set up in small apartments. The Hangar Connect offers a more compact alternative, as it simply gets clamped onto whatever's at hand.

Manufactured by Arizona-based startup Altangle, the Hangar Connect consists of an anodized aluminum shaft with heavy-duty aluminum clamps at either end. One of those clamps grabs onto the bike's seat post, while the other takes hold of a railing, sign post, van ladder or pretty much anything else that's sufficiently sturdy and stable.

Each clamp has a maximum 2.7-inch (69-mm) opening, and can be rotated relative to the shaft to sit either vertically or horizontally – a locking pin keeps them firmly in that orientation.

Once the clamps are in place, the user tightens them down by turning their handles. Grippy thermoplastic rubber inserts keep the clamps' jaws from scuffing the bike and the support surface.

The Hangar Connect is 14 inches long (356 mm)
Altangle

The whole Hangar Connect reportedly tips the scales at 3 lb (1.4 kg), and is designed for use with bikes weighing up to 55 lb (25 kg). It's available now via the Altangle website, priced at US$225.

You can see it in use, in the video below.

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5 comments
Trylon
$225? That's crazy. I can get a wall-mount workstand on eBay for less than $25, mount it to the wall or just screw it to a two-by-four and clamp that to whatever I want using a couple of $4 Quick-Grip-style clamps from Harbor Freight. And bonus: I can also use those clamps for woodworking projects.
White Rabbit
Trylon: Then all you need to do is find a way to take the wall (or the 2x4 and clamps) with you on a road trip, and since pedaling while woodworking seems very difficult you need another way to store your bike, the stand, and the 2x4 while the clamps are in use in your project.
1stClassOPP
Great idea. Should do well in the bicycle market.
Trylon
@White Rabbit: You'd only need about 6-8" of 2x4, just enough for the clamps to hold onto. Quite portable if you actually tried to think about things rather than being snarky. And I have no idea what your second point is supposed to be. I can spend $8 for two more clamps if I desperately needed to take it with me while a couple of clamps are at home, and still be almost a couple of hundred dollars richer than if I bought this.
PAV
Trylon said exactly what I was thinking that price tag is laughable.