I'm looking into bike lifts now and think I found THE ONE. I have a jack type lift, but don't like it much because it only lifts the bike 20 inches or so (I'm too old and fat to have a bike on a lift and still have to get on my knees to work on the wheels). Anyway, there's a company out of Palm Springs California that makes what appears to be Handy Lift knock offs. Handy lift is respected as the industry standard and my buddie SPIDERMAN has their top of the line (No doubt a great lift), but at $2K by the time it's delivered it's out of my league. Now back to the lift that I'm gonna buy, It appears to be as good a quality as the Handy (this company includes everything you need where Handy makes everything optional) and the list price is $625. I've looked into this thing carefully and I can't find too many differences between the Western Manufacturing Lift and Handy's version. In fact, the Handy 1000 is lighter and doesn't reach as high. I'm assuming the the extra weight is in metal where it counts.
If your looking for a table type lift, I've looked at Super Lift, Handy and a hand full of others, but my vote and cash are going to Western Manufacturing model ML-12X.
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