I was about to join a Motorcycle maintenance and repair, service training. But I consciously skipped it.
I was obsessed with bike and riding for a while. I spent on bike servicing and maintenance expensively. The maintenance expense of expensive bikes, stressed me to think, why don’t I learn bike mechanism and service my bike on my own. So, I can reduce or avoid biking servicing and maintenance cost.
The increasing service and maintenance cost of motorcycle in India let me to think such way. So, I googled which institute offer hands on practical training on bike maintenance and servicing.
I stumbled upon few institutes and enquired them.
I was caught up by a new “current” called DIY biking servicing. I was about to jump into that current.
Then, I realized, riding is my passion or interest, not laborious manual works like servicing and maintaining bikes.
One has to meticulously spend 3 to 5 years to earn money in any career. I have to complete bike mechanic training for 6 months to 1 year, then engage in trial and error for another 3 years to become professional bike mechanic to make money out of it. I have to spend great deal of time, money, energy to master bike mechanism in 3 to 4 years.
What I have to learn is Battery maintenance in motorcycle and car, not full fledged end to end bike mechanism. Since 2020, all bikes have Fuel Injector in India as by government order. Bikes dependent on battery heavily from 2020. Prior to 2020 mostly motorcycles in India had carburetor, which does not dependent on battery. Even in dead battery condition, we can “push the bike” or kick start the old bikes manually. Nowadays most of the bikes do not have kicker. So, kick start option is eliminated.
Post 2020, all motorcycle have fuel injector, and most bikes do not have kicker. So manual starting of engine is eliminated in case of low or dead batteries. To start the engine of the bike, we have to depend on stable sufficient power supply from battery is must as base line. Starter motor, fuel injector, etc, are next level investigation. First checking point is battery incase of bike not starting up.
So, from 2020 or BS6 onwards, every one who owns a latest motorcycle, should be aware of battery checking, charging, removing battery from bike, and putting battery inside into the bike after charging it. We need to have minimum tools required to check or remove the battery out from the bike. Otherwise, you have to tow the motorcycle to the service center or workshop. Towing cost is extra.
This battery management knowledge is enough for vehicles from BS6 onwards. If any major or other problems occur, then we have to go to service center or local mechanic. Leave the motorcycle maintenance and servicing to the expert who have spent their time, energy, resources for years to become professional in their field.
Let the professionals handle your bike. You focus on your career where you make money to live, where you have spent your time, energy, money, youngness, all resources to become professional in it.
After realizing this, I dropped the idea of joining a motorcycle service and maintenance training. I have other plans on learning meditation and Hindi language instead.