Basic Safety Rules - TGB Outback 425 Owner's Manual

BASIC SAFETY RULES

1 Whoever rides the bike, must carefully observe the instructions given below.
2 Approved safety helmet, boots, goggles, glove and full protective clothing
must be worn.
3 Before getting on the vehicle, make sure the parking brake is on to avoid any
injury, or damage to the vehicle.
4 After starting the engine, gradually open the throttle. Make sure that it is
possible to open and close smoothly and in all steering positions.
5 The brakes might get damp when the road is wet. Make sure the brakes
function properly before you ride away.
6 If you must ride your vehicle in rainy weather, or on loose surfaces,
remember that traction is greatly reduced. Under these conditions, avoid
sudden braking which may make the vehicle skid.
7 When you first receive your vehicle, ensure you have basic riding skills such
as going forward, making turns and stopping. Do not attain a high degree of
skilled operation until you are thoroughly familiar with your vehicle.
8 Start the engine and let it idle for several minutes, release parking brake and
open the throttle, keep your head straight to looking forward, relax your
shoulders and straighten up your back, keep both feet on the footrests with
knees facing inward, bend both hands slightly and always ride with both
hands on the handlebars.
9. BASIC RIDING SKILLS FOR HIGH SPEED TURNING, ROUGH ROAD SURFACE
AND RIDING UP/DOWN THE HILL
9.1 High speed turning: Because of the affection of centrifugal force and
inertia force, without proper change of body's center-of-gravity your
vehicle will get more easily to turn over or skidding. Once you have
changed the center-of-gravity. Changing the center-of-gravity will reduce
the chance of skidding and increase traction.
center-of-gravity: while making a left turn, slow down and incline your
body to the left to change the center-of-gravity; while making a right turn,
slow down and incline your body to the right to change the
center-of-gravity.
9.2 Rough road surface: Raise hips off the seat, squat down to ride the bike,
use appropriate power, grip the handlebar with both hands to direct the
bike. The purpose of raising hips is to eliminate vibration pass to your
body through the road surface.
center-of-gravity will move forward and create the balance between the
front wheel and rear wheel so as to eliminate vibration.
9.3 Riding up and down the hill:
Riding up the hill: move forward of center-of-gravity position and incline
body forward, by doing so will prevent the vehicle to turn over.
Riding down the hill: move backward of center-of-gravity position and
incline body backward.
10. Turn off engine and park the bike on the level ground. For your safety, press
the parking brake button. (To prevent the battery from being discharged, do
not turn the ignition switch to "on" position for a long period when the engine
is not running) You can also use the key to turn off the engine.
11. Engine stop switch It is an instrument that is designed to stop the engine.
Whenever an emergency or dangerous situation happens, use the engine stop
switch to turn off the engine for your own safety.
12. After you turn off the engine, the temperature of the exhaust pipe and engine
parts are extremely high, do not touch!
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Skills on changing
In a squat down position, the