After buying a motorcycle, go over the entire thing by hand. Remove plastic panels, and tighten every singly bolt you can find. You will without a doubt find many that are loose. If it’s a used bike, unplug the battery and scrub the electrical connections with a toothbrush and spray can naptha solvent. Many connections will have rusty metal, and your bike might refuse to start just because something isn’t conducting. Also, test the battery voltage and maintain it, most likely it will need some water added to the cells. If the voltage is still low after maintenance and charging, buy a new one, the best you can afford.
Find an empty road or parking lot, and practice speeding up and then slamming both breaks as in an emergency stop. Start slow, then get faster and faster. Make sure you’re going straight, and that you hit the rear break a split second before the front break. Never hit just the front break or your front tire will come out from under you and you’ll take a dive. Repeat the whole thing on wet roads, and gravel/dirt roads.
Submitted by: Cameron Wylie in Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Source: http://www.artofmanliness.com/man-knowledge/12744
Posted by Adrian Agoes
Adrian Agoes, MM.Par a post graduate on Tourism Administration is now a lecturer at a tourism school in Bandung. His experiences are vary from being a tour leader visiting remote places in Indonesia, to being a travel photographer.
