Other area bike shops and Schwinn Bicycle Company liked the stands and requested a production model.

By the early 1980s, Hawkins and Engstrom were perennial top ten Schwinn dealers with three stores but sold their bicycle shops to focus their efforts on the tool business.

[2] The founders of Park Tool along with James E. Johnson developed a clamping device on their original bike repair stand, for which they received a United States Patent in 1976.

[3] The company has applied for and has been granted many patents since then, including a pizza cutter shaped like a penny-farthing.

Similarly the AWS-10 folding hex wrench set has a traditional Park blue handle, while the visually very similar TWS-2 folding Torx wrench set is supplied in bright green.