Well, It seems to work pretty good.
(Thanks for the link to the manual, I guess they forgot to put one in mine)
Like it says, use the centerstand to stabilize the bike, unlike the lifts that you see in dealerships, this one doesn't have enough grunt on the front wheel vice for my taste to hold the bike upright while you strap it down.
It will only grip the bottom of the tire, not like the big shoe types on the commercial lifts.
The u bolts are nice to have to attach to if your bike doesn't have a centerstand, and you could put your bike on it rear end first and use them to hold the back down while using the centerstand to do work on the front, such as tire replacement, or work that requires you to take the front forks off and such.
The deck is diamond plate steel, and it's wide enough so I think you should be able to use a Pitbull stand(or others) under the swingarm.
I ran the Futura up on it, and it takes about 60 pumps to get to just about max working height. It sounds like a lot, but it goes up pretty fast.
It didn't take a whole lot of leg pressure to raise it either. The lower pedal is separate from the raise one, (it's the smaller one in the pics) and both slip onto square drive rods and they do not have a retention mechanisim such as a spring clip or cotter pin. It's not really an issue I think.( and it can be a plus as I will detail in a minute.)
The lowering rate even wide open is very controlled and it doesn't slam down at all. I haven't played with it much, but it seems that it would be easy to modulate by the amount of pressure you apply to the lowering pedal.
It comes with casters front and rear, the rear ones are fixed, but the front ones are swivel, and it rolls easily on a concrete garage floor.
There are 2 leveling screws at the front you use to bring the front casters off the floor to prevent it from sliding, and when I pushed the Futura up on it, it stayed in place just fine with no hint of wanting to slide across the floor.(I have an epoxy paint coating on my garage floor)
The screws have a short piece of round stock welded across the top to use to turn them. Again, not much effort required, but I might modify them to have a hex nut on top so you could use a ratchet or something like that to lower them
As far as storage, I slid it under my 97 dodge ram pickup without a problem, The highest point is the front wheel vice, and it would contact one of the cross members on my truck so I just slid the front in as close as I could to the crossmember, and pushed the back around and it was under the truck with no problem. The pedals come off very easily if space is at a premium, as well as for walking around the lift with a bike on it, but they really don't stick out that far IMO and you could probably get used to them being there pretty quickly if you want to leave them in place.
All in all, I think it will work just fine for me, and I love the fact that the crawling around on the floor days are over. yee haa..