Motorcycle Pre-Ride Checklist & Health Report

The pre-ride checklist

Four checks run before every ride, whatever condition the bike is in. The whole check takes about 30 seconds.

• Tires — pressure, tread, no cuts.
• Brakes — lever and pedal firm.
• Lights — headlight, tail light, brake light and signals.
• Drive — chain slack and lube, or belt tension and cracks. The item matches your ride: chain, belt, or a scooter’s CVT belt.

When a part is overdue, MACHINA adds a sharper check for it, in plain words: “Squeeze the front brake and hold it. Does the lever stay firm instead of slowly sinking?” Progress saves as you tick, and the report counts how many rides in a row you have checked.

A straight verdict

The report opens with a health score and one sentence on where the bike stands. It names what is wrong and what to do about it: “Brakes are overdue. Run the check above before you ride.” When everything is on schedule, it says that instead.

It is honest about what it knows. A part past its interval by a logged odometer reading is overdue. A part past it only by the projected odometer may be overdue, and the report asks you to update the reading to confirm. A part with no service record is reported as a gap, never passed off as healthy.

Riding guidance until it is fixed

When brakes or tires are overdue, the report gives limits to ride by until the work is done, depending on which is affected:

• Keep it under 40 km/h.
• Skip the expressway.
• Leave twice your normal following gap.
• Go easy in the wet.

The guidance is advice. MACHINA never locks you out of riding.

Every part, ranked

• What stops you — brakes and tires, the parts that decide whether you can stop and grip.
• What keeps it running — overdue engine and drive parts.
• Worth watching — everything else you track, worst first.
• No record — parts with no service logged yet, kept apart because a gap in the record is not a fault in the bike.

Each part shows how many days until it is due, or how far past it, from your own riding rate. Tap a part for what it does, what to do about it, and what the job costs: the price you usually pay, or a typical range in pesos.

What the report tracks between checks

• Since your last check — what got worse since your last completed pre-ride check, with the days and distance in between.
• Interval habits — after two real services of a part, the report compares your actual gap with the recommended interval: ahead, on time, slipping or late.
• Fuel economy — a sustained drop in fuel economy points to the parts most likely behind it, with gaps in your fuel log taken into account.

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