Kukirin Life Beginner Guide: Your First Ride and Next Steps

Kukirin Life gets you on a scooter almost immediately: you join the game listed as Kukirin Life [Testing], find the free G2 waiting in your My Rides menu, and you can be doing cash-paying wheelies within your first minutes. This guide follows that first session the way recorded gameplay actually shows it — which listing to join, the inputs that make the G2 ride and trick, the eight early activities that turn riding into income, and the mistakes that got real players caught on camera.

Join the right game

At the time of writing, the game is in testing, and the dependable way to end up in the right server is to locate and join the listing titled Kukirin Life [Testing]. Third-party tracker Atlas (still in beta and marked unverified) lists it as a Simulation game with 1.3M visits, around 13.9K concurrent players and a September 19, 2026 creation date. Those numbers — and even the [Testing] suffix — will move as the game updates, so treat the title as the anchor, not the stats.

Don't wait for a tutorial once you're in. Neither recorded gameplay session shows an onboarding tutorial or a starter quest, and the game is playable straight away because you already own a vehicle. The game updates often and the menus can shift, so treat this route as current to the recorded sessions.

Take the free G2 and make your first ride

Your starting scooter costs nothing. As the full-guide session puts it, you go to your My Rides menu and "will have a free G2" — a scooter you own from the start, so no purchase gates your first ride. The recordings don't show whether the G2 is equipped automatically at spawn, so if it isn't, My Rides is where you'll find it. The faster G4 and the fastest G4 Ultra come much later, at the dealership.

The riding inputs demonstrated live on camera are:

1. Wheelie — hold Control, keep tapping the up arrow, and slowly push W.
2. No-hands riding — press V while riding.
3. One-handed riding — press C while riding.

That's the entire confirmed control set — W, the up arrow, Control, V and C; the rest of the scheme isn't shown in the footage. Success is easy to recognize: both sessions open with the player already riding, chaining wheelies and no-hands tricks around the map. Better still, wheelies pay on their own — "with doing wheelies, you get a bunch of cash and without doing tricks at all" — so your first ride is also your first earning activity.

What to do early: eight grounded activities

The first sessions have a simple shape: ride for trick income, pick a fight with the police for bigger payouts, then spend the results on a better scooter. Everything in the table was demonstrated in recorded gameplay, with the place, the action and the payoff. These routes are also the foundation of how to earn money in Kukirin Life.

Treat every number here as a snapshot from a single recorded session — 800 cash held mid-ride, a 2,000-cash crate opening, a 12k dealership bike — not as fixed payouts. No source shows exact cash per trick, star level or quest. For the chase system itself, the Kukirin Life police chases page covers it in depth.

Beginner mistakes the footage actually shows

Fleeing in a straight line. Police cars are faster than any scooter, so "if you go in a straight line, you're pretty much cooked" — and both sessions include at least one capture on camera. What worked instead: circles and diagonal lines, cutting over sidewalks and between buildings; one session narrates a full evasion route of lefts and rights that avoids every police car.

Sitting still while wanted. Standing around or riding passively with stars gets you rammed — "they just start driving you over" — and one rider is knocked into the road mid-escape on camera. Keep moving once the stars appear.

Spending Robux early. The guide calls Robux scooter purchases "kind of pay-to-win," and even rainbow paint costs Robux, while a plain cash crate already dropped a faster G4. Put your first cash into upgrading the scooter you have instead; upgrades multiply rewards.

Assuming a capture is catastrophic. The recordings never show a penalty for being caught — one session simply keeps playing afterward. The highest star level shown is four; what happens beyond that isn't documented.

Building your plan on codes. The sources disagree: one recorded session is built around activating codes, while the full guide states flatly that "there are no codes yet." Until that's settled, treat codes as unverified — every route above works without them. Current listings are maintained on the Kukirin Life codes page.

Where the first session should leave you

By the end of a first session you should have joined the right listing, ridden the free G2 with the confirmed inputs, banked your first cash from wheelies and at least one chase, claimed your quests, and put that money into an upgrade or a crate. From there, the natural next steps are a better scooter from the dealership (how to get scooters), deciding which upgrades to buy first, and learning where the map's orange event circles send you.