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Right now I have the budget minded Harbor Freight lift. Been using this for the past 6 years or so. I in the past had Western Manufacturing air lifts. Not even sure if that company is still around. Their lifts were like the Cadillac of the industry. Built like a brick shithouse. You could stand on them and kickstart a bike in the raised position.
Last time I priced one they were like 1,200 dollars!!!!! The Harbor Freight lift will get the job done, but they are not as well built as the Western lifts. I would not climb up on one and kickstart a bike in the raised position. The table will flex when you stand on it in the raised position!!! For the money it is hard to beat the Harbor Freight lift. If you have the big bucks to spend buy a lift like the Western Manufacturing style lift.
The Harbor Freight lift in the lowest raised position.
I use a Pingle removable wheel chock and two tie downs to hold bikes to the lift if I can't use a rear work stand on the bike.
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For me the best tool Investment ever done.
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I was looking at the ABBA lift. I would have gotten it, but the cost was too high for me at the time. It also didn't readily have adapters for my KZ. I'm pretty sure you can make the adapters pretty easily though.
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Scirocco wrote: I like my ABBA lift, both wheels off the ground at the same time and you can roll it out off the way if needed.
For me the best tool Investment ever done.
do you have any more photos of how it attaches to your KZ? Im really leaning towards the Abba at the moment because of how awesome to use it looks. how long does it take to setup a bike on it?
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If my swing arm piviot would hollow bored it took only 1 Minute to setup, like i did on my Hayabusa.
Pics of the Kz on the ABBA stand will follow as soon as possible....
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