18 Tips For How Not To Ride: Motorcycle Safety Tips

Sometimes we need to learn the basics of riding a motorcycle, but in that same case, we miss out on how we should not ride a motorcycle. So, you can use these tips for motorcycle road trips or events in the future.

  • Revving The Cold Engine: Never rev your cold engine just after starting the motorcycle. Let the engine get warmed up to its optimum running temperature by itself. When the engine and engine oil become hot enough, start riding slowly, and then you can pull out the power from your beast.
  • Breaking City Speed Limits: Try to stay within the safe speed limits in the city area where there could be a teenager walking down the road with his/her all attention on his/her phone, and you can fall into an accident situation without your fault.
  • Street Racing: There are some tracks and highways available in every country without speed limits, never try to top speed your bike in the streets even if it’s midnight or there’s no one on the road! Street racing is not only dangerous for you but can harm innocent people and may lead you behind bars.
  • Being Valentino Rossi: Let track speed and actions stay on track. Cutting corners at high speeds and overtaking people at small distances is illegal on roads. First, understand your and the machine’s limits, then try various tricks in a safe environment.
  • Leaning On The Corners: Race tracks have well-designed and good-conditioned corners, so if you try leaning on regular roads with your regular commuting machine, you might end up in the dust! MotoGP bikes and other higher-capacity bikes come with soft compound tires on the edges, that help to keep proper traction on the roads.
  • Start Flying As Soon As You Leave Home: Not only engine but motorcycle tires also need proper temperatures to work well on the roads. Ride slowly for a couple of miles to let your tires get warm enough to give you proper traction which will help you to get maximum grips on roads. Riding in the zigzag pattern also works well to warm tires up, or you can buy tire warming kits if you are living in cold regions.



 

  • Riding With Chain Noise: Never drive extensive distances with chain tak-tak sound. Lube your chain or take it to a knowledgeable mechanic to resolve the problem of a tight or loose chain. A dry chain may get damaged if ridden on long rides.
  • Avoiding Engine Tik-Tik Sound: This might be the bell for changing oil or poor-quality petrol. Tik-Tik sound may be the alarm for the engine knocking! Service the bike, change the engine oil, see if there is an overheating problem, and change the engine coolant.
  • Just Topping Up Oil, Not Changing It: Changing the oil of the engine after a given period is as important as bathing every day. Old burnt oil may affect the performance of your engine over a long period.
  • Ignoring Small Technical Checks: Check all small technical things regularly. Like oil levels, front and rear brake pads, brake fluid, engine cooling fluid, tire tread depth, wheel alignment, battery voltage, and electrical things like headlamps, stop lights, turn signals, etc.
  • Avoiding Riding Gears For Small Rides: Never forget to wear at least a helmet even if you are going for a short spin. Head injuries are very difficult to cure. For long and fast rides, always wear a full riding safety kit from a helmet to gloves and riding boots.
  • Listening To Music On Headphones: Listening to music might sound cool but distract you from your speed and surrounding situations, which may lead you to the worst conditions.
  • I Don’t Need Rear View Mirrors: They are your best friends when it comes to safety, while on track or highway, you may need to find out who is right behind you, and turning a face with the helmet is so stupid that you might have experienced it.
  • Ignoring Rust: Ignoring rust on the chassis or anywhere on the bike can lead you to part failure or value loss.



 

  • Hitting Front Brakes While Turning: A front-powerful disc will throw you out of the corner if you apply intense brakes while being in the corner!
  • Twisting Throttle Full In the Corner: Again of the biggest mistakes is giving unstable throttle input in corners. If your bike has a traction control system and other electronics to make you safe, try it in safe conditions, or else for smaller bikes, learn things and try them. Try to change gears and apply brakes to come at your comfort speed; practice and give time to yourself.
  • Let’s Test The Top Speed: Going fast at illegal speeds gives so much fun to any human but practice and increase speed as per your limits. Sometimes not only bikes but riders’ brains need time to reach the top speeds.
  • Abusing Co-Drivers/Riders: Never get angry on the wheels, make yourself a calm person to enjoy rides.

So, let us know which motorcycle driving tips you follow to ride safely. 😉