Fixed Plate Electric Repair Stand

A rolling stand is the right call when one stand has to cover several service bays; push it to where the bike is and pull it back when you're done. The trade-off is that the column needs the mass of the base to stay vertical under load, which means the base footprint sits at the customer's feet and the column wobbles a half-inch under a hard pry. In a dedicated e-bike bay where the stand never leaves its spot, that trade-off is the wrong way around.

The Fixed Plate for the 1693EL Electric Repair Stand is the floor-mount conversion. It's a single plate that bolts the column directly to the shop floor, replacing the rolling base. The stand stops being a rolling tool and becomes a fixed-bay tool; the wobble goes away, the floor footprint shrinks to the column's own base diameter, and the lift's wired control panel sits at a permanent height that doesn't change every time the stand gets pushed sideways.

When to fit this

Three workshop layouts make the fixed plate the right call. The first is a dedicated e-bike bay where the same stand sees the same bikes day after day; nothing about the workflow benefits from the stand moving. The second is a service environment where the column needs to be precisely positioned relative to a permanent feature (a wall-mounted parts wall, a torque-arm anchor point, a wired controller box on the bench). The third is any space where the rolling base's footprint is consuming square footage that the rest of the shop layout needs.

If the stand sees use in more than one bay, or moves out of the way at the end of the day, the rolling base is doing its job and the fixed plate isn't for you.

Specs

• Floor-mount conversion accessory for the Unior 1693EL Electric Repair Stand
• Replaces the rolling base; bolts the column directly to the shop floor
• Single-product purchase, sold separately from the stand

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 fixed plate is the kind of accessory that exists because the 1693EL itself is a tool people commit to for the long term; the stand outlives the shop layout that originally housed it, so Unior makes the parts that let it move from rolling base to fixed floor and back again as the workspace changes.

Pro tip from our mechanics

The decision between rolling and fixed isn't usually obvious on day one; most shops start rolling and migrate to fixed once they've worked out which bay the e-bike work belongs in. The fixed plate is a low-cost retrofit when you reach that point, not a decision you have to make before the stand ships. Our e-bike servicing guide covers why a permanent e-bike bay makes the floor-mount conversion worth the half-hour install: Servicing an e-bike: what's different from an analog bike →