Tire condition, tire pressure, oil level, belt condition, check and make sure the mirrors are tight, check the more obvious nuts and bolts, double check anything that I've worked on or modified recently, make sure my overlength cables are still attached right, look it over for rust, make sure my lights work right, and check into anything that I might have noticed or thought I had noticed while riding.

A lot of this is done nearly every time I get on the bike, and there's probably some other things I check that I don't even think about, and probably something that I should check that I don't.

And recently, I've been pulling out my carb about once a week trying to get it working properly again.

Daughter & I have a routine before we ride, check tires, oil, brakes, helmets, do sunscreen, put on boots, gloves, jackets, and then we ride to station at top of hill to check gas. This is a short ride that lets us check out any vibration or problem. We're close enough to home to coast down the hill to my place if there is trouble. If all is well, we're off from there. It's sometimes a real pain to check everything but I hope I've spent my last hour waiting in the heat for someone to come pick up a disabled bike. I'm much too old for that now.