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Motorcycle pre-ride inspections: Pilots do them. And the Motorcycle Safety Foundation recommends that riders do them to. But after a ride or two, TOLLSS and T-CLOCS might start to look like 5 minutes of fun you're not having. That's why RyanF9's 90-second ABCDEFG inspection (   • Before You Ride - A Quick, Effective Motor...  ) is such a good compromise: thorough enough to spot the big stuff and quick enough that you have no excuse to skip it.

AIR
Start where the rubber meets the road. Check air-pressure, tread depth, weathering, and bulging. Listen for pings and thuds, as you stroke your spokes. Eyeball rim trueing (truth?), brake calipers, and tone wheels for debris.

What's missing? Bearings. Optionally attempt to wiggle the tire from side to side on its axel to check for play.

BARS
This exercise rapidly detects problems with steering, brakes, and suspension. Twist the handlebars from lock to lock to check for obstructions. Test each brake individually by rocking fore and aft, while also feeling for suspension trouble.

CONTROLS
Check every lever, button, and pedal. Work systematically from one side to the other, so you don't miss anything. By the end of this step, you've checked gearshift lever, clutch lever, brights, horn, indicators, headlight, throttle, both brake levers, and brake lights.

What's missing? Hoses, wires, cables...quite a bit, actually. Are you going to chase these down before every ride? Better to add them to a monthly checklist.

DRIVE
If you've got a maintenance-free Cardan shaft drive, just check for leaks. If you've got a chain or a belt; check tension, lubrication, and sprockets.

EARTH
Are you missing any parts or fluids? If they're not on the bike, they're on the ground.

FASTENERS (and Fluids)
If you mark every bolt with an index stripe while it's torqued to specification, you'll be able to spot broken lines. (Learn How to Apply Torque Stripe Index Marks:    • How to Apply Torque Stripe Index Marks to ...  ) As you circle the bike, stripe-spotting; check your fluid windows.

What's missing? Some fluid levels must be checked while the bike is level. (Center stand?) We're also skipping the frame inspection. You can add it yourself--we're on F, after all--by inspecting the welds and bearings.

[GENDER-INCLUSIVE] GUZZI-RIDER
I wish I'd thought of this before filming: Guy and gal are unnecessarily gender-binary. Let's go with Guzzi-Rider. Look into your well-adjusted convex mirrors, and check yourself out: ATGATT? Rested, sober, calm, alert?

What's missing? Plenty. Short of tearing it down and rebuilding it, no inspection can diagnose every possible problem. Motorcycles are complex machines and--just like the rest of us--the laws of entropy are working tirelessly upon them to grind them finally to rust and dust. But could this 90-second inspection prevent dozens of types of failures and accidents? Absolutely.

One last thing: if your tire-pressure is low, you need to air them up to specification--a process that can be done anywhere with a hundred-dollar onboard compressor. Learn How to Install an Onboard Compressor:    • Installing a Battery Maintainer and an Onb...  

CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:44 ABCDEFG
1:32 Air
2:58 Bars
3:32 Controls
4:38 Drive
4:57 Earth
5:25 Fasteners and Fluids
6:18 Guzzi-Rider
6:44 Onboard Compressor
7:23 Conclusion


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