Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
How to Ride a motorcycle (Figurative Language ("Give it a little…
How to Ride a motorcycle
Prior Knowledge
How to change gears
Let off the throttle.
Pull in the clutch.
Push down or up on the shifter.
Let go of the clutch.
Goose it.
-
How to turn: Lean, don't turn bars.
Because the bike goes in the opposite direction from where the front wheel is pointing, most motorcycle literature refers to this as “countersteering.”
Countersteering is the technique of pushing on a handlebar in the direction you want to go. If you try to “turn” the bars in the desired direction, you’ll go the opposite way.
How to go
Pull in the clutch, push down on the shifter. Slowly twist the throttle and let out of the clutch at the same time.
-
-
Need to Know
-
How The Brakes Work
The master cylinder holds your break fluid. Then your brake lever gets squeezed, pushing hydraulic fluid down the brake cables. The hydraulic fluid gets pushed down to your caliper and squeezes the pistons that sit behind the brake pads. The brake pads squeeze the rotor causing the bike to come to a stop.
Types of Breaks
Hydraulic Brakes
Master cylinder holds hydraulic fluid, lever pushed it down the cable, fluid squeezes pistons together, pistons squeeze the brake pads, brake pads create friction between the rotor, slows bike down.
Mechanical Brakes
These are with cables, the lever pulls a cable that runs down to your caliper and squeezes another lever that creates friction inside the drum, slowing the bike down.
Warming Up Bike
When metal heats up it expands. So when your engine doesn't warm up and you go ride it hard, your pistons are most likely going to expand rapidly and scuff. when you don't warm the bike up the oil doesn't move into the oil pump causing bearing and journal damage. One minute is all you need to warm the engine up.
-
-
Types of Bikes
Tour Bikes/ Sport Bikes
combination of a street bike and dirt bike and can be legally ridden both on public roads or off road/on dirt.
-
-
Enduro
Older term that has largely been replaced by “dual-sport” but is still used when referring to street-legal dirt bikes.
Dual Sport
combination of a street bike and dirt bike and can be legally ridden both on public roads or off road/on dirt.
-