What should you do before starting your ride?

Before starting your ride, it's essential to adjust the side mirrors. Properly adjusted mirrors are crucial for safety, as they provide maximum visibility of your surroundings, which is particularly important when riding a motorcycle. Ensuring that the mirrors give you a clear view of the lanes behind and to the sides helps you maintain awareness of other vehicles and potential hazards, allowing for safer maneuvering.

While checking the fuel level is important for ensuring that you won’t run out of gas, and proper adjustment of the helmet is critical for safety, both of these steps occur after you have ensured the mirrors provide the necessary visibility for a safe ride. Additionally, warming up the engine, while sometimes beneficial, is not as critical as ensuring that you can see other traffic around you. Therefore, adjusting the side mirrors takes precedence as a foundational safety measure.