Shoutout to Feedback Sports: A Home Base for Bike Maintenance

A huge thank-you to Feedback Sports for donating a bike mechanic stand to the Tri For The 22 campaign.

Building a bike is one thing. Keeping it running is another — and until now, most of that work has happened balanced against a wall, propped on a kickstand, or held steady by whatever was within arm's reach in the garage.

That changes now.

Feedback Sports sent over a portable repair stand — a real, height-adjustable clamp mount on a tripod base, the same kind of setup shops and mechanics actually use. The bike locks in at the seatpost or top tube, spins freely, and holds still while I work on it. No more balancing a wheel against my knee to true it. No more guessing whether a bolt is actually torqued down or just looks like it.

It's not a glamorous piece of gear. Nobody sees a repair stand on race day. But it's exactly the kind of support that makes every other piece of this build — the crankset, the bottom bracket, the brifters, the aerobars — actually usable. A bike with great components still needs to be adjusted, cleaned, and checked, and now there's a proper way to do that.

This is the kind of behind-the-scenes support that keeps Tri For The 22 moving forward: not always visible, but genuinely necessary.

Thank you, Feedback Sports, for helping equip this campaign — not just for race day, but for every day of work in between.

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