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Hydraulic tandem lift
Being in our 80's, my wife and I are finding lifting out E-tandem onto a JDT roof carrier a bit of a struggle, so wondered if anyone had a working hydraulic lift.

Cliff - I was in the same boat as you (e-tandem being too heavy to deadlift onto roof bars) and reviewing other options (trailer - urgh, modifying a Thule kayak carrier - hydraulic) but I waited for a BTS hydraulic assist to come on the forum. I'm glad I did. I can lift 28kg of e-tandem onto the roof of our BMW estate with ease. All I did was add a bracing strut to stop any "wobble".
I can now take a tandem and two road bikes at the same time
If you can - just be patient - one will eventually come on the forum or eBay.
T
Cliff - I was in the same boat as you (e-tandem being too heavy to deadlift onto roof bars) and reviewing other options (trailer - urgh, modifying a Thule kayak carrier - hydraulic) but I waited for a BTS hydraulic assist to come on the forum. I'm glad I did. I can lift 28kg of e-tandem onto the roof of our BMW estate with ease. All I did was add a bracing strut to stop any "wobble".
I can now take a tandem and two road bikes at the same time
If you can - just be patient - one will eventually come on the forum or eBay.
T
We've ridden tandems for 30 years and transported them for the same time, always on car roofs. We had non-electric 'normal' tandems for most of that time but for the past 5 years we have ridden a Gepida Thoris e-tandem and love it. We are in our 70s and it is too heavy for us to lift into an upright position on roof bars, but we can manage to get it onto the car roof without hydraulics using the admirable Helton carrier.
As you may know, one loads the tandem on the Helton frame on the side of the car, and then lifts and slide it onto the roof bars (after securing the front wheel with a strap) where it is held horizontally. Incidentally, this feels much more stable then a tandem held in the usual upright position, as the weight is distributed to the 4 corners of the roof bars. It requires the 2 of us to lift our e-tandem onto the Helton frame on the side of the car, and again both of us need to do the final 'jerk' of the lift up onto the roof bars. We have tried JDs tandem carrier (expensive and beautifully made!), but that is too heavy and awkward a lift for us with the e-tandem.
I have no connection with Helton, but can recommend their carrier from experience.
https://www.heltontandemcarrier.co.uk