Troubleshooting

Tell a pressure alarm from a lost signal before you touch anything. Cold mornings, hot motorways, sensor batteries, blocked radio paths and...

Android Auto faults on a bike are either handover failures on the phone or dropouts caused by the install. Sort the fault...

CarPlay drops on a bike for four common reasons. Check power, cable data pins, stale pairings and Bluetooth conflicts in the right...

Why intercoms pair but stay silent, the five-minute reset that fixes most faults, a symptom-to-cause table, and how to fit a clamp...

Hunting, hanging and stalling have different causes. Find air leaks, read the plugs, and know which fuel-system work belongs in a workshop...

Clutch drag, linkage and oil account for most hard-shifting complaints. How to rule them out before suspecting the gearbox, and when to...

Two opposite faults, two different tests. Free play, oil specification, plates and baskets, plus the clutch symptoms that make a bike unsafe...

Locate vibration by speed dependency, not by where you feel it. Wheels, bearings, discs, chain and suspension, and the findings that mean...

Hot in traffic points at airflow, hot at speed points at circulation. The cold checks, the fan test and the coolant symptoms...

Identify the fluid, then find the highest wet point with the clean-and-run method. What each leak location means and what has to...

Diagnose engine noise by speed, load and temperature rather than location, with the sounds that mean ride on, book it in, or...

Work the no-start in order — starter, interlocks, spark, fuel — with the checks that separate a flat battery from an ignition...