Motorcycle Parts

Video Transcript

"Alright now we're going to go over the parts of the bike. We're going to go over all the different things you need to know about a sports bike. Alright we're going to go ahead and start off with just all the different switches and buttons you're going to need to know about. The first thing really important is your ignition right here, there are a few different positions. There's the off position, which it's in right now. There's obviously the on position. The last position is called a lock position. And that's when you park your bike and you don't want anybody to steal or roll it away. So you can actually turn the wheel all the way to the left, and put your key in the lock position, that's one notch further than off. Pull it out, and your steering wheel is now locked. That's not to say that your bike is invincible from getting stolen, but it's definitely preventative. The next thing, real easy, is the same key goes under the gas tank. Ninety percent of the time, real easy, opens it up. Now we're going to go over our switches on our hands. We're going to start with our left hand over here, we have our lights, we have low beams, high beams. We have our turning signals, over here, left, right. We have our clutch over here, and then we have our horn, get to that, horn over here. So turn, lights, clutch, horn. On the other side on our right hand we have our engine kill switch. So if we need to kill our engine in a quick, you know instant, be this red button right here, flip it off and it's killed. On the same hand we have the starter, on the bottom. So we have our start and our kill. Now your bike won't run if your engine is on the off position, you have to make sure that's on the circle position right here, the engine run. And then over here we have our front brakes. Over here we have our speedometer and odometer, this is our temperature on our bike right here, it's currently at a one hundred and sixty-six degrees, this one has a fuel. Not every bike has an actual fuel gage, there clock odometer, and our miles per hour. Over here we have our shifter over here, and that goes on the same side as our clutch. So all of our shifting is done with our left hand, we have our left hand for the shift and our left foot over here for shifting. Over here on our right side, we’re going to be, this is going to be our braking side. So on our right hand we have our front brake, on our right foot we have our back brake. So the left is shifting, the right is braking."