BikeGator+ Repair Stand, Manually adjustable

The BikeGator+ Manually Adjustable pairs the refined 1693A+ stand body with the cam-style manual clamp, the lever-and-threaded-handle design that experienced shop mechanics know without thinking. A separate handle dials in the jaw to the tube diameter; the lever closes and opens the jaw against that setting. Two motions instead of one, but every motion is deliberate and the clamp pressure stays exactly where you left it from one bike to the next.

For a portable stand that sees the same bike (or the same few bikes) over a session, manual adjustment is faster than auto. Set the jaw once at the start of the morning, swap bikes by working the lever; the pressure is dialed-in, the bike sits where you put it, no recalibration happens between bikes that share a tube diameter. Where the auto-adjust pays back is rapid swapping of bikes with different diameters; where the manual pays back is steady work on similar bikes, where the predictability of the setting is worth more than the speed of the swap.

The BikeGator+ generation upgrades the original portable's sliding system, the jaw mount and rotation system, and the precision aluminum and steel parts mix. Same 5.7 kg folded weight, same 30 kg working load, same fold-to-pack form factor as the original BikeGator; the BikeGator+ refines the parts the working mechanics asked the field-test team to revisit. The metal tool tray with interchangeable SOS foam insert is the workshop-grade detail that lifts the BikeGator+ family above the entry portables: bits, axles, bolts have a place to land that isn't the asphalt.

Specs

• Article number: 1693AS-US
• Folded weight (without tool tray): 5.7 kg
• Working load capacity: 30 kg
• Clamp: Manually adjustable cam-style, 24–32 mm tube range
• Replaceable rubber jaw covers: Unior 1693.11
• New jaw mount and rotation system; improved sliding system
• Precision aluminum and steel parts construction
• Metal tool tray with interchangeable SOS foam insert

Includes: folding stand body with refined sliding system, manually adjustable cam-style clamp head pre-installed with rubber jaw covers, metal tool tray with SOS foam insert.

Built in Zreče, Slovenia

Unior has been forging hand tools in Zreče since 1919, and is the official technical partner of multiple World Tour and downhill teams. The manually adjustable cam clamp is the mechanism that survived from the original 1693A line into the BikeGator+ refresh because it's the mechanism workshop mechanics keep asking for; predictable, repeatable, no electronics to fail at a wet-grass race start. The BikeGator+ generation didn't replace it, it just improved the body around it.

Pro tip from our mechanics

The manual cam clamp is what you reach for when you want one fewer thing to think about during the work. The threaded handle is the place where the clamp pressure is decided and stays decided; the lever does only one job. For mechanics whose stand spends the morning on a single bike for a tune-up or build session, this is the clamp that matches the work. The cam-versus-QR question gets covered alongside the rest of the stand-selection trade-offs here: How to choose a bike repair stand →