Bay Bridge Buddy
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- jess
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Bay Bridge Buddy
I had the opportunity (and necessity) to ride my wife's Buddy across the San Francisco Bay Bridge this weekend. Legalities aside, it was an easy ride. As it happens, I had ridden my wife's LX150 the other direction across the bridge earlier in the day, and the Buddy was actually a good deal faster and more responsive. It hauled ass, actually, even if it was a bit twitchier than the LX.
Just curious -- has anyone else ridden a Buddy across the SF Bay Bridge yet?
Just curious -- has anyone else ridden a Buddy across the SF Bay Bridge yet?
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- jess
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Two. One stays in Oakland and one stays in San Francisco.lobsterman wrote:How many scooters does your wife have, or do you have more than one wife?
Not sure if you mean which one did she buy first, or which one did I ride first. The answer to both is the LX150.lobsterman wrote:Which was 1st, the LX150 or the Buddy?
She says she loves them differently. The LX150 is a really nice rally machine, tricked out as it is in kind of a traditional style. The Buddy is definitely more utilitarian with little more than a basket on the front.lobsterman wrote:Which scooter does she prefer?
Still, the Buddy is faster.
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I don't even like going across that bridge in the car! I always end up with visions of collapsed spans going through my headjess wrote: Just curious -- has anyone else ridden a Buddy across the SF Bay Bridge yet?
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Only one or two road panels from the Bay Bridge collapsed during the Loma Prieta quake. The nasty damage was on the Cypress structure (in Oakland) where the whole damn upper deck collapsed.vitaminC wrote:I don't even like going across that bridge in the car! I always end up with visions of collapsed spans going through my head
That probably doesn't help, no?
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JuliaGrace wrote:Meanwhile, I will continue to practice simple street-crossing.
I think I should shoulder some of the blame or that. It was my brilliant idea to sneak through San Francisco's rather random traffic restrictions by walking our scooters across the street. Sorry...
But thanks for letting me do the gymkhana / slow race on your Buddy!
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Having successfully ridden my 125 a couple miles down I-280 out of necessity (though I sure won't make a habit of it!), I'm interested in crossing the Golden Gate bridge, which would open up all of Marin to my SF-bound Buddy. Anybody done this? I've never really looked at the road surface from a scootering perspective...
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Anyone that's braved the interstate should not have a problem on the GG, as the speed limit there is much lower. It's got some funny grating on it, but it's unlikely to be an issue, or else we'd be hearing a lot more about motocycles crashing as they go across. I would like to ride across, but it's just such a PITA to get up there from here without using the interstate, that it becomes an all-day proposition just to cross a bridge- no thanks.
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Jess, aren't you proud of me for not being the one to make this comment?hermitgirl wrote:So tell me, does the wife in Oakland like the weather there better than the wife in San Fran?jess wrote:Two. One stays in Oakland and one stays in San Francisco.lobsterman wrote:How many scooters does your wife have, or do you have more than one wife?
-ducks and runs-
And, believe me, I was tempted.