Please share your pre ride checklist and riding tips

[Number One]

lower colon empty?....ready!

lmao......

[HenryDorsetCase]

It should be written on a sticker on the swingarm, but usually 20-30mm of chain movement up and down.

Now go do wheelies!

its hyosung 250. I'm just saying

[HenryDorsetCase]

It's not skill, it's a happy series of coincidental spaz attacks.

someone HAS to have this as a signature, its gold!

[HenryDorsetCase]

as for pre-flight checklist: I like to check my tyres, walk around the thing to see nothing is obviously loose or falling off (like the footpeg mount with gearlever attached DAMHIK). start it up and make sure the lights and indicators are go, check the fuel level (did I forget to fill it up on the way home?) then when I start off I check both brakes are working. Then go ride.

[nathanwhite]

• Start it up
• Smile at the sexy exhaust note
• Rev it a little
• Stop because it's still cold
• Does everything look attached?/Not going to fall off?
• Headlight works?
• Mentally figure out if I have enough gas
• Did I check the tyre pressures more then two weeks ago? If yes then redo.
• Ride off revving perhaps a little more then necessary

[Merlin.pgd]

its hyosung 250. I'm just saying

Haha you are wright mate! Maybe the 650 will do, but definitely not on the 250 or on the bike I would love to have Ducati desmosedici rr

[Drew]

Haha you are wright mate! Maybe the 650 will do, but definitely not on the 250 or on the bike I would love to have Ducati desmosedici rr

I am happy to prove otherwise, so long as you sign a disclaimer in case I damage it.

Ps, the desmosedici is shit. Your Hyosung will be more reliable, and handle about the same by all account.

[Fast Eddie]

you can wheelie anything..

mrs gn250 is a hoot on the rear wheel.

I wheelied a cat once..

[Merlin.pgd]

I am happy to prove otherwise, so long as you sign a disclaimer in case I damage it.

Ps, the desmosedici is...

Maybe you have the skills mate. I've never ride the desmosedici, but by looking at it and hearing it I know that I want one!

[Maha]

• Does everything look attached?/Not going to fall off and bounce endlessly along the Motorway.
  

Now it makes sense...

[Katman]

But if it's sitting a while before a ride lube the chain

Try getting in the habit of lubing the chain at the end of a ride - it saves throwing half of it off as soon as you start your ride.

The warmth in the chain will allow the solvent in the lube to readily evaporate off and it will be already done for when you're next ready to ride.

[caspernz]

Excuse me for taking a logical way of thinking here...but why would you keep a bike if you're only doing 2 or 3 thou clicks a year? The rego alone is more than the fuel bill

[Drew]

Excuse me for taking a logical way of thinking here...but why would you keep a bike if you're only doing 2 or 3 thou clicks a year? The rego alone is more than the fuel bill

You pay for registration?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Excuse me for taking a logical way of thinking here...but why would you keep a bike if you're only doing 2 or 3 thou clicks a year? The rego alone is more than the fuel bill

I've only done between 3 and 5000 ks across all my bikes for the last two years. No major tours, bit of communting, but I am almost entirely a weekend warrior these days. Every one of those ks has been enjoyed pretty much too. Sure rego is a rip, and fuel and insurance cost more, but so what. At least you've got a bike in the shed you can have a blat on when the need and opportunity arises.

I had shit to do last weekend so it didnt even get started but theres next weekend.

[James Deuce]

What HDC said. I got cheaper insurance for staying under 5000kms a year. I just ride for fun and commute to work once in a blue moon.