Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, dirt bikes, or similar motorized vehicles.

Other names for Motorcycle Mechanics: All Terrain Vehicle Technician (ATV Technician), Custom Bike Builder, Frame Repairer, Frame Straightener, Mechanic, Motor Bike Mechanic, Motor Scooter Mechanic, Motorcycle Fabricator, Motorcycle Mechanic, Motorcycle Mechanic Apprentice, Motorcycle Repairer, Motorcycle Service Technician, Motorcycle Subassembly Repairer, Motorcycle Technician, Motorsports Technician, Scooter Mechanic, Service Technician, Shop Foreman, Technician, Vehicle Mechanic,

• Repair and adjust motorcycle subassemblies such as forks, transmissions, brakes, and drive chains, according to specifications.
• Replace defective parts, using hand tools, arbor presses, flexible power presses, or power tools.
• Connect test panels to engines and measure generator output, ignition timing, and other engine performance indicators.
• Listen to engines, examine vehicle frames, and confer with customers in order to determine nature and extent of malfunction or damage.
• Reassemble and test subassembly units.
• Dismantle engines and repair or replace defective parts, such as magnetos, carburetors, and generators.
• Remove cylinder heads, grind valves, and scrape off carbon, and replace defective valves, pistons, cylinders and rings, using hand tools and power tools.
• Repair or replace other parts, such as headlights, horns, handlebar controls, gasoline and oil tanks, starters, and mufflers.
• Disassemble subassembly units and examine condition, movement or alignment of parts visually or using gauges.
• Hammer out dents and bends in frames, weld tears and breaks; then reassemble frames and reinstall engines.