Bikes with motors? Bike stands with motors? What’s next? Motorized allen keys? Sure, yes. Drills exist. All jokes aside, Feedback’s Pro E Lift Bike Repair Stand (or the E Lift as I’ll call it for the rest of this review) is an electronic bike stand designed to make life a little easier for folks who spend a lot of time working on bikes. It falls right on that professional/consumer cusp, designed for heavy-duty home mechanics, or lighter-duty shop use. It’s got all the features you’d expect from a nice bike stand, along with a powered, telescoping lift mechanism.

This is, honestly, one of those products that everyone at Freehub rolled our eyes over a little when it showed up. And then, in the intervening months, we’ve found ourselves appreciating it more and more for working on both electric and analog bikes. At this point, I think Forrest, Freehub’s resident shop dawg/facilities manager/table lord would put up one heck of a fight if we tried to get him to revert back to regular old bike stands. So let’s get into who will appreciate this stand, and who might not.

Feedback Sports Pro E Lift Bike Repair Stand Overview

• Height range: 35.75” to 73”
• Lift capacity: 100 lbs
• Stated weight: 54 lbs
• Price: $1,250

Pro E Lift Bike Repair Stand Features

Let’s cover the typical, non-lift stuff first, before we get into the goods. The Pro E has a pretty normal lineup of features. It’s got a quick-release adjustable head. You can use the knob to cinch it down, and just slap the big red button to open it in a hurry. You can also adjust the angle and orientation of the arm, and there’s a magnet on the arm for holding spare tools.

The E Lift doesn’t come with a tool tray, but you can purchase one aftermarket from Feedback if you so desire. The stand has a heavy lower section where the motor is mounted, with four legs for stability. Because these are flat to the ground, they present less of a tripping hazard than a typical bike stand. On the back of the base there are two small wheels which make it easy to tip the stand up on edge and roll it around the shop.

And then there’s the lift. You plug the stand into the wall, and then the two small buttons on the right front leg allow you to raise or lower the stand. They’re easy to accentuate with your toe, and the lift moves smoothly and slowly up or down.

A quick note on price: this is not an affordable bike stand by any means, but it does compare favourably to Park Tool’s Mechanical Lift Stand ($900). If you’re looking to repurpose the clamp off your existing stand, Remco makes an electronic lift that you can retrofit a clamp arm to for around $650.

Pro E Lift Bike Repair Stand Performance

It’s worth considering the E Lift’s performance on two different metrics: first, how does it perform as a bike stand? Second, how does the motorized movement affect that performance?

The E Lift is a reasonably solid bike stand. It doesn’t have quite the same “super burly, last for fifty years” feel of a dedicated shop stand, but it’s notably more hefty feeling than most home or travel bike stands. The clamp mechanism is solid and easy to adjust, and it holds even very heavy e-bikes nicely.

And then there’s the lift portion. This works very well, and we’ve been surprised by how much we’ve used it. Even when working on non-motorized bikes, it’s still pretty sweet to just roll the bike into the stand, clamp the seatpost, and lift it up, instead of hefting it up into the stand and holding it still while you clamp it. Is it totally game changing and life altering? No. But it is convenient. And it’s especially convenient when working on heavy e-bikes that are harder to heft up into a traditional stand. It starts low enough that you can roll pretty much any MTB in, and it goes high enough that at 6’2” I can get the drivetrain and brakes to a comfortable height to work on without stooping.

My one oh-so-minor beef with this stand is that it’s very safe and careful. The stand moves quite slowly, and if you bounce the bike around while the stand is moving, it will automatically stop. That’s probably a good thing, since it should help stop you from crushing your bike with the stand or something similar, but I have found myself tapping my toe a little as I wait for it to rise. 

For Now

If you want to harness the power of electricity to make working on your bike easier, the Feedback Sports Pro E Lift Bike Repair Stand is a great place to start. It’s easy to use, and takes a little bit of the exertion out of working on your bike.

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