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How many miles have you put on your scooter?

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How many miles have you put on your scooter?

I put on 16k on my Buddy125cc between 2007-2012... anyone else have as much or more?

I want to know who has what within a certain amount of time
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Coming up on 2,000 on my Buddy 125. Just got it last year.
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Bone Girl has 40,000 on one scooter and nearly 30,000 on another. (I swear the girl must ride 20hrs a day! :P) I have but a mere 22,000 on mine since November 2008.
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mine's a 2009, I've had it 3 years. just under 25k.
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Just serviced my 2007 Buddy 125 at 12,000 miles tonight. These are great little scooters.
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Post by Witch »

I put 16k on an old Scarabeo 50 in just under 3 years.

I currently just turned over 13K on the GTV, and I've had it just over 3 years. Kinda disappointed in myself, I need to ride more!
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Just short of 2,000 miles after 8 months...
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14,000 miles on my '08 since April '09
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I'm at about 8,600 on mine. I bought it in July '09 with 1,000 miles on it, so 7,600ish of those are mine, mostly put on through 5 days a week of 12 mile roundtrip commutes. I know this isn't what you're looking for, but by my quick back of the electronic envelope calculations, had I driven those same miles in my car, I would have spent about $1,200 more in gas.
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3,700 on my 2012 170i since October 2011.
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Yesterday passed 10,000 on Buddy and 20,000 on Tmax.
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15.... But I haven't even had her a week yet. ;)
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26,172 as of yesterday's fill-up. Bought in July of 2008.
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300 miles of neighborhood riding in 3 weeks so far. Loving every minute!
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about 6,000 since July 2011 on Max
26,000 on the GTV bought late '07
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24,000 on the Buddy since April 2008

13,000 on the Stella since Jan 2009

10,000 on the RV250 since Oct 2010
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I'm around 34,000 miles ridden since Oct. '05. That's on several different scooters, though!
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batgirl101 wrote:about 6,000 since July 2011 on Max
26,000 on the GTV bought late '07
Dammit, only 4400 on mine and I bought it the same month.
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I got mine in October last year and reached 1495 miles today.
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As of this weekend, I've had my Buddy 50 "Flash" for three years. (His three-year "moped" registration expires at the end of the month.) He had a few miles on him from setup and testing when I picked him up, but not enough to make a note of. He now has 13,800 (plus a few), which works out to 4,600/year. In that time, he's had tires, brake pads, spark plug, fluids, and filters changed, but otherwise he's the same old scoot, and still performing like a champ.
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approx 4700 on the Blackjack (purchased Nov. 2010) and I think 1600 on the Stella (purchased April 2011) but I remember burning up miles on the Blackjack when I first got it...
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Just over 1200 on mine.
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I have a very short commute, and I've not done much long distance trips on my scoots. I've put on about 1500 miles per year.
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6,300 miles since August 2011.
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Just passed 20k a day or so ago. That is from 2007 to present although I took the trip from Tulsa to New Orleans for AV on a different scoot.
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Almost 4000 here..
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Just turned 14,500 on my 2008.
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Just rolled over 24K this weekend. It had 1350 on when I bought it used in March of 2009. Under 23K for me alone since March 2009. Avg of 7550 a year. honestly first 2 years I did 20k. this last year as been the slow riding year.
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Approaching 9,000. I'm hoping to break 10k this summer but I'm splitting my time between two bikes now.
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Had 14,000 on my Buddy when I sold it...now have just over 11,000 on my SYM HD200..
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Several thousand on my Agility, 1100 on the BJ i tend to. Had some downtime, too. So probably like 8,000m in 15 months, 100% urban commuting. :ninja:
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I have about 850 on the iScoot in 6.5 months....very short urban commute. Approximately 80% of those miles are non-commute, pure fun! :D
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I've put 800 miles on my Kymco Like in 1 month, it's my first scooter. I've got a short 1 mile commute to work, the rest has been cruising the back roads of Alabama on the weekends (and weekdays too). CANT STOP SCOOTING!!!
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Since getting a part time job I putting about 200 mi/wk communting add another 75 for joy riding and I'm up to 275/wk :D . The one of the only good things about the job is I get to ride my scoot more :wink: .
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I've put a little more than 1500 in the 3 months I've been able to ride it.
(October, half of November, half of March, April)
Of course the weather here has been crappy for the last week and a half. I've only gotten to ride it once in the last two weeks, and that was just to go to the cafe around the corner for lunch :(
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312 miles... And I have not had the chance to ride it since April 16th... I've been helping a friend out with a gallery how that she is doing.... And no time to scoot. Can't ride the scoot to her place as she lives at I-70 and Hwy 157 and I only have a 50cc. Waaaaaa :cry: I miss my Buddy
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about 10,000 in the last year 8)
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i put 8-10k/yr on mine. got my 06 blur in oct 08 and she had 1,500 on her. by end of 2011 i had 30k. i ride all year, though, except in snow.
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I bought my Buddy 125 on 5/5/2007 and as of this evening it is at 14,419 miles. 6500 of those miles when on last year alone as my commute to work went from 2 miles to 35 miles round trip. There is a good chance I will hit 20,000 miles by the end of this season. I would say the mileage is pretty evenly split between city and country ridding.

Other than regular maintenance, tires and belts, the only parts I have had to replace have been a fuel valve and two light bulbs. The fuel valve failed on the second day I had the scoot so it was likely bad from the factory. The replacement has been working fine for the last 14,089 miles.
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Almost at 15,000 and I've had it since the end of last July
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Well, I just hit 1500 this morning. Glad I have 10x easily ahead over the next year :P.
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721 miles more after last weekends fun :+!:
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looking at these numbers, I'm feeling pretty lucky I got my 2006 with only 5000 on it !
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Just hit 4900 tonight on the Blackjack! - yet to crack 2k on the Stella.
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I had 18,500 officially on my 2008 Buddy 50, although my speedometer was broken for 10 months. So I'd add 10,000 miles to that. I decided to part it out since I'd rather save up for a newer used one rather than waste more $ on repairs. I ride all winter so it was pretty beat after 3 winters of riding.

My backup buddy is a 2009 which I bought with 2,500 miles on it. It now has 3,895 miles on it after riding 2 months.
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Bought her with 3510 km, she's currently at 3822 km. I hope to have the time soon to venture out of my small town and hit Boulder and the Foothills for some daytrips.
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33136km, or 20589mi. now on my 2007 Kymco People 250 (acquired 3/2008 with ~1800km). Getting quite the commuter workout, with the new job! :) Runnin' like a sewing machine, and approaching my best MPG, ever (last ten fill-ups averaged 66.6MPG).
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Post by bluebuddygirl »

I am just a little over 10,150. I put over 4,000 on it the first few months I had it, but now I have another motorcycle too, so they have to share my time.
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the one i had for 27 days i got from 0 to 268 miles ... but since we were getting ready to move i didnt wanna ride it too much, so it would have been more, tomorrow ill get my new one :mrgreen:
that leads me to another question,
do you do anything special for a BUDDY BIRTHDAY ? like every 1000 or 10k miles??? i used to give my car a VIP premium wash,wax and polish every 10k miles
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Marly1312 wrote: do you do anything special for a BUDDY BIRTHDAY ? like every 1000 or 10k miles??? i used to give my car a VIP premium wash,wax and polish every 10k miles
Don't know where it is, but I think I was on here (or maybe Modern Vespa) where a guy who owns a Vino does funky stuff on his scooter reaching a certain mileage - the vid I saw of him for 5000 miles it was, I think, he rode in an elevator on his scooter - like rode it in and then brrrr! rode out after getting to his floor (it was in a parking garage)
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