Showing posts with label motorcycle maintenance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motorcycle maintenance. Show all posts


The bad condition of public transportation has made bike as the first choice of Indonesian to support their daily activities. Bike is easy and simple to ride. It can easily go through road congestion. Unfortunately some motorist forget to check their bike whereas a continually use will affect to the performance. A routine check is needed to make sure the bike is in a good condition and safe to ride. 

Here they are we have to consider before start riding. Daily bike checkpoint: 

check in these points before riding

Check out the basic equipment for a road bike such as rearview mirrors, headlamp as well as taillamp, and also the turn signals. Those parts are essentially required to help you while you’re not alone in the road. There are also companion such as cars, buses, or trucks. Then look into brake part, make sure the function is good. Brake is one of the important parts in the bike. This part will help you handle the bike and control your speed. Still in a handling area, we continue to the tires, check the pressure make sure it’s good, no more or less. If it’s less you’ll difficult to control as the bike will be heavier and be tricky to handle cause doesn’t have the right position for the tire and if it’s over your tire will be very hard and affect to your comfort. Don’t forget to check also the chain tension. It’s related to the acceleration and deceleration. Good tension will give smooth acceleration. And the last is the most crucial part, check your fuel. Go to a fuel pump if it’s indicated in a lower stage. You don’t want to run out of gas in the middle of your journey don’t you? 

Are you finished in check out your bike? Don’t forget to give yourself best protection by using safety gear. Last words enjoy your ride and happy riding! :D

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Fuel Efficiency Through Safety Riding

Photo by AP

You know what? fuel consumption also affected by your riding style. Bad riding style will waste a fuel. Moreover it can damaged you and your motorcycle. To prevent this you have to know how to ride correctly and safe. This method also known as Safety Riding.

With Safety Riding you will get a lot of benefit. Beside safety there is also a fuel efficiency. How it can be? let's take a look.



In Safety Riding we taught to gassing the engine slowly. In other way we have to be delicate with this control. This action will bring efficiency to the fuel and avoid any damage to your motorcycle parts.

Then we also taught to control the fronts and rear brake. We need to calculate a braking point. Don't take it too close to the stopping point. Avoid as mush as possible an engine breaking -a brake using the engine by downshift. Because an engine brake will consume a lot of fuel.

reference
http://motorcycles.about.com/od/howtostartridin1/ss/How_To_Ride_4.htm
Majalah R2

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

How to Maintain Your Motorcycle Chain

My bike chains :D

Chains is one of the important parts in the motorcycles. Their task is to transferring power from the engine to the rear wheel. So, they need a proper maintenance to prevent a worse thing that might come to you or other motorist. Chains should be inspected for every 2000 km or twice a month.

We just need to do two simple things in this maintain. First is lubricate then the last is adjusting the tension.

For lubricating we can use SAE 80-90 oil or chain lube product. It's not recommended to use a used oil as a lubricant. It just make it chain worse and more dirty. Before lubricating we need to clean the chain. Then lubricate the chain with rotating the wheel.

After that we inspect the chains if it need an adjustment by pull it up and down. Set the tension by moving the rear axle. Recommended tension is about 2cm - 3cm. Don't forget to see rear axle position by index marks shown in the swing arm. Match it left and right.

Finish. :D


Reference:
http://motorcycles.about.com/od/motorcyclemaintenanc1/ss/Chain_Maint.htm
R2 Magazine

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