@Criggie looks ok for a half-price knockoff of a proper one :) I'd be somewhat concerned about the thread pitch on the clamping bolt (coarse is good), and how much you open the jaws with the lever (combine 'not much' with fine thread and it's going to be tedious getting bikes in and out).
It's a lot better than what you have now, and since you're willing to work within its limitations it should be fine.
I would be reluctant to rotate the clamp/arm in order to hold the bike at a funny angle where there's a lot of torque on the arm - the jaws don't look well designed for that. And obviously you want to clamp that to a nice solid surface. If they make a wall-mount version I suspect you'd be better off with that. Coz wall are normally more solid than workbenches. But you may be able to mount that to a wall stud or better, corner stud...
except I suspect the rotation lock on the main post wouldn't work in that situation
@Batman yes, and NZ suffers from being at the arse end of the world in many ways. Not as bad as "our man in Bhutan" or Kilisi, but pricing can be disturbing. Even in Oz. I bought mine via Amazon US and shipping was ok, total much less than buying locally.
@Batman I get the impression that where he is no bike is maintainable. His supply of trashed bikes suggests that there's a problem with BSO imports. But it's also likely that in the salty, sandy environment no bike would survive long so cheap and disposable is a more sensible choice than expensive and also disposable. Whereas Alex is just mad.
@Criggie I did think that a heavy fixup trailer with removable wheels might be the way to go. Or put the axle on a couple of swingarms, so you can rotate the wheels forward and out from under the trailer to the same effect. But that means lifting the whole thing, so probably not as effective.
@Batman I was on an atoll at one stage trying to make internet go. At times it seemed that it would be easier just to shop floppy disks backwards and forwards (round trip about 3 months).
@Batman ex-military, I think, could easily be "I am rich, I will go live on a Pacific Island".
For pacific island values of rich, most probably.
FWIW Fiji has a thriving export industry, largely UN peacekeepers but also mercenaries (and, of course, a technically-not-a-dictatorship heavily influenced by the army commander turned ex-dictator). But I doubt Kilisi is there, it's the sort of place where ex-military people would likely feel very unsafe. Not that everyone else feels safe, but they'd probably feel less safe
@Batman bits of it are lovely. Other bits are cold and wet and unstable. Or warm and wet and unstable. Which is fine if you like boats (and have a boat), but not much fun for cycling on.
pedal pedal {glug} makes for a very short cycle touring holiday.
@freiheit - I saw on some other SE that bicycles.blogoverflow.com and other SE blogs are going to be shut down. Is there some mechanism to migrate the blogs to locked posts on SE or something if thats the case?
