Modern Buddy

Found this on ebay searching for scooters near me

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/IWL-PITT ... 19bce6d11f

It's really kinda cool looking I think

It looks like a shoe, but it is strangely compelling.

ed85379 wrote:It looks like a shoe, but it is strangely compelling.

It does kinda look like a shoe, but a fairly sexy shoe

max aerodynamics lol

Man that is awesome! Love it! Right up there with my heart throb, the Heinkle Tourist.

Skootz Kabootz wrote:Man that is awesome! Love it! Right up there with my heart throb, the Heinkle Tourist.

That's a really fabulous scooter as well. Also kinda looks like a sexy shoe Hopefully the Genuine crusier will be as sexy (in its own way) when it comes out. I think my wifes about ready to kill me every time I bring up wanting a 3rd scooter so I've been mentioning it every once in awhile so I can claim long term planning, but I may still have to part with my Buddy 50 when the cruiser comes out in order to save my marriage

While I love IWL's, I don't know if I could ride a "Pitty Roller", I dig the IWL Berlin.

I have to admit the Berlin is much sexier with its giant front fender. I really like the curves on it (I tried to think of a differnt way to say this but there just wasn't any ).

He says it's an IWL, but if you look at the last picture in the second row the emblem shows JWL. Regardless, what a cool scooter. Did you read the sellers description (scroll down from the picture on ebay)? Museum piece.

Yeah, it looks like a "J", but it's really a stylized gothic "I". Must be peculiar to German as a lot of 8mm Mauser cartridges are stamped with what's misinterpreted as "JS" when it's really "IS".

This thread got me thinking about Heinkles and I found this pic. Hew freakin sweet is this! Wow.

oh man, I dream of sidecar ownership. btw has anyone ever heard of anyone putting a sidecar on a Buddy? I think a blackjack might look kinda sweet with a little sidecar action, although the Buddy may just be too small for it I've told my wife that after we pay off the car I'm seriously considering getting an Ural Gear-Up if I can confirm that it will ride through snow I would really like to get something that feels less carish for winter riding without having to move to southern cali or arizona. I've also thought about one of those can-am spiders but the Ural looks way more awesome and its camo, how can you beat that

Camo really looks great. Considering that cagers can't even see brightly-colored scooters though, it may not be the safest color combo out there.

loves

charlie55 wrote:Camo really looks great. Considering that cagers can't even see brightly-colored scooters though, it may not be the safest color combo out there.

yeah, but they also have orange camo, at least the hunters would see you in the woods

jasondavis48108 wrote:oh man, I dream of sidecar ownership. btw has anyone ever heard of anyone putting a sidecar on a Buddy? I think a blackjack might look kinda sweet with a little sidecar action, although the Buddy may just be too small for it I've told my wife that after we pay off the car I'm seriously considering getting an Ural Gear-Up if I can confirm that it will ride through snow I would really like to get something that feels less carish for winter riding without having to move to southern cali or arizona. I've also thought about one of those can-am spiders but the Ural looks way more awesome and its camo, how can you beat that

Yeah, a shop tried to put the Cozy sidecar on the Buddy. They managed to attach it but said it was too unstable to ride... Its in a thread here somewhere from long ago.

EDIT: Found it! viewtopic.php?t=2957&highlight=sidecar

Kaos wrote:

jasondavis48108 wrote:oh man, I dream of sidecar ownership. btw has anyone ever heard of anyone putting a sidecar on a Buddy? I think a blackjack might look kinda sweet with a little sidecar action, although the Buddy may just be too small for it I've told my wife that after we pay off the car I'm seriously considering getting an Ural Gear-Up if I can confirm that it will ride through snow I would really like to get something that feels less carish for winter riding without having to move to southern cali or arizona. I've also thought about one of those can-am spiders but the Ural looks way more awesome and its camo, how can you beat that

Yeah, a shop tried to put the Cozy sidecar on the Buddy. They managed to attach it but said it was too unstable to ride... Its in a thread here somewhere from long ago.

that doesn't really suprise me. I'm amazed they can put them on stellas and they are seem quite a bit larger than the Buddy as far as wheel base. Still, if they ever figured out a safe way to do it it'd be pretty cool.

I don't know. Sidecars look sharp, but the physics of riding on 2 wheels is ruined

Sorry, sidecars hijacked this thread so I started a new thread for that topic. Apologies. Carry on. As you were.

The German shoe scooter is a really great looking scoot. I'd love to take it for a spin

jasondavis48108 wrote:I've told my wife that after we pay off the car I'm seriously considering getting an Ural Gear-Up if I can confirm that it will ride through snow

Go to this link and watch "Snow Games"

http://www.imz-ural.com/downloads/movies.htm

Check out this modded G-max from the PGO website, the white one at the bottom looks like a few days in the shop

http://english.pgo.com.tw/news.asp?id=54&type=1

Check out the G-Max 220 Are those Brembo disks?

Dooglas wrote:

jasondavis48108 wrote:I've told my wife that after we pay off the car I'm seriously considering getting an Ural Gear-Up if I can confirm that it will ride through snow

Go to this link and watch "Snow Games"

http://www.imz-ural.com/downloads/movies.htm

omg that was by far the most awesome thing I've seen in quite some time. I don't think anything has made me so excited about michigan winters since I bought my first set of studded bicycle tires