Motorcycle Mechanics
Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, dirt bikes, or similar motorized vehicles.
13,510 people do this job in the US. $48,580 a year.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 0%. Today's estimate: 0%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 13 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dismantle engines and repair or replace defective parts, such as magnetos, carburetors, or generators.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 21% | 5 h1.7 h to 1.6 work days | Stays with people | |
| Remove cylinder heads and grind valves to scrape off carbon and replace defective valves, pistons, cylinders, or rings, using hand and power tools.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 12% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Replace defective parts, using hand tools, arbor presses, flexible power presses, or power tools.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 10% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Disassemble subassembly units and examine condition, movement, or alignment of parts, visually or using gauges.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 10% | 1.1 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Repair or adjust motorcycle subassemblies, such as forks, transmissions, brakes, or drive chains, according to specifications.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 1.7 h50 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Reassemble frames and reinstall engines after repairs.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 7% | 3.3 h1.3 h to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Repair or replace other parts, such as headlights, horns, handlebar controls, gasoline or oil tanks, starters, or mufflers.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 42 min17 min to 2.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Mount, balance, change, or check condition or pressure of tires.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 29 min17 min to 1.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Install motorcycle accessories.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 50 min17 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Reassemble and test subassembly units.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 1.3 h38 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Listen to engines, examine vehicle frames, or confer with customers to determine nature and extent of malfunction or damage.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min13 min to 1.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Connect test panels to engines and measure generator output, ignition timing, or other engine performance indicators.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 38 min17 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Bicycle Repairers11% now, 11% by 2028
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians3% now, 3% by 2028
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics4% now, 4% by 2028
- Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics8% now, 8% by 2028
- Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists0% now, 0% by 2028
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines5% now, 5% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).