My personal is the hydraulic jack type, which I bought for 50 bucks from Chinese joint at Campbellfield Victoria in 2005. After some minor alterations and repair, a  new jack as came fucked with fucked jack, (not the fucken jack?) is still lifting my bikes in the air, 2019.

Go the hydraulic. The spanner version will get tiring real quick. 

SCA have the hydraulic lift on special for $108.95 starting tomorrow.

I guess it’s just a matter of money. I’m wrapped in my Warana Imports Air Lift. 

I'm looking at this style as well.  The added height and bike stability is what I need.

Ush. What ever you do make sure the rails on top of the stand are wide enough to support the bike. Many are too short and require jury rigging of additional wider wood / rails

Scissor one is for bench use  sca are junk  go the repco one but there is a light duty and heavy duty 

There is the DIY approach. I welded a couple up for both my Sportster and Triumph using a length of 50mm pipe and some scrap steel. It is strong enough to run the engine whilst up on the stand, sit on the bike, and remove the rear wheel, all without straps. Can remove both wheels with a bottle jack under the engine to lift the front.  The secret is the tube bolted to the frame cross member.

I use hydraulic, Super Cheap Auto hundred bucks or so on special.  

I have also seen this with a 6" x 2" wooden slab on a rod.  Its an old school trick that works really well as I have used in the past. 

Well, I have the cheap hydraulic Jack I. Your pic, use it to lift my old sporty, just for normal tyre change, cleaning or other simple maintenance job's it does the job I use straps to hold bike to it. Sporty small & light. That lift works ok. I had a mate here on long weekend riding a new m8. I lifted that off the ground with my jack too. But I have limited space. If I had a lot of room, an air work bench would be the go. But being an old Harley rider I have used some novel idea's to get a wheel off on side of the road. Compared to that the hydraulic Jack is high tech.

Might be different to up here but there it is....

Before any one hands over there cash have good look at the  sca  welds and quality 

Not disagreeing with you mate, always buyer beware aye, with a name like super cheap you got to be on your toes.

Bought the SCA lift today, does the job alright, rails could be a bit longer but fits ok, bit of a bargain really.