Found the Harbor Freight full lift for $289 that has been dependable for it's needs. Please don't take this personal, I treasure my bike #2 behind my family but wouldn't be able to sleep at night with a bike being held in the air by some of these jacks and usually a no fear type of guy but opening a door and the White Bike laying on the floor is a picture that I try to keep out of my head. Like I mentioned, view not directed towards anyone owning a listed jack just a little chickenchit coming out.

 

I won't trust my beer on anything but a DirectLift:

 

You should of ended with "stay thirsty my friend"

 

I have a Pitbull. It works great plus it holds my FLSTC in the air for several months at a time with no issues whenever I am deployed overseas. Solid.

 

For,the money I thought red Sears was good to go.
But they don't make a trike lift so,went with J&s
Nice lift but $$$



So I would go,with Sears
Hap

 

I never really understood spending thousands on a bike and then complaining about spending a few hundred on a good jack.

Granted I bought a HF jack when I first got my bike but that was because it was all I could afford at the time.
I bought a J&S just as quick as I could and it is definitely worth the money IMO.

 

I could use a jack but I am deathly afraid something would happen, knowing my luck, and my bike would fall off of it.

 

Just now in the market for a lift. Appreciate the info. in this thread. Time to shop. 32 degrees and snowing in Oklahoma Mack

 

my HF table has held my Shovel and Twinky up reliably since I got it, but I always use the lock bar. I never leave the load solely on the bottle jack.

 

The Harbor Freight hi-lift is a great jack, but it has some issues that might make it unsuitable for some folks if it's their only jack. It doesn't move with a bike on it; once you pull the wheels, the bike and jack stay where they are till you put the wheels back on. It has two stop positions, holes in the jack a large pin goes through. While you're jacking it, there are no incremental stops to catch the bike if something goes wrong. I don't worry about this, very unlikely, and I have had a bottle blow a seal with a bike on it. It just settled down real slow - till it hit one of those stops. Was that ever fun getting the bike off a stuck jack with the wheels in the air.

Positives - don't have to worry about the bike tipping over; you can pull a wheel and it won't try tipping the jack over. It goes high, over 30", and I found that to be great for my old back, being able to sit on a stool and have a clutch change at a comfortable height.

Apparently another negative - it's blue in that pic, and evidently blue is a more expensive color...

Don't care what kind of jack you get, if it isn't tied down, it can tip off a jack, kids and dogs have proven that. Tied down properly, the bike won't tip off the jack, but you can still have a jack go over sideways if you take too much weight off just one end of the bike; that's easy enough to compensate for if you think about it.

I have a frame with a motor in it on a jack this winter, need to roll it out of the way occasionally, but it's down off the bottle, too. I wouldn't leave anything sitting even overnight with just a bottle holding it, but all these jacks have stops that will hold the bike at various heights with no hydraulic pressure.

Nothing wrong with having a couple. I've had a jack situation come up when a bike was on a jack already; handy to have another one then. I use the HF hi-lift most of the time, but other times want one that can move the bike around. I'd really like a table lift, too, just don't have the room.



Kinda scary the first time you lift one all the way up. And the second time... third time...