Buddy 150 Gas Mileage

Susie Q · Post by **Susie Q** » Mon May 26, 2008 3:29 am

Last month I bought my first scooter, a 2007 Vespa LX 150. I'm averaging 67.5 mpg with two up. My boyfriend is looking at a Buddy 150 and believes that it will get 80-90 mpg. For those with Buddy knowledge, please reply with your actual gas mileage. Thanks!!!

redcass · Post by **redcass** » Mon May 26, 2008 4:52 am

Susie Q wrote:Last month I bought my first scooter, a 2007 Vespa LX 150. I'm averaging 67.5 mpg with two up. My boyfriend is looking at a Buddy 150 and believes that it will get 80-90 mpg. For those with Buddy knowledge, please reply with your actual gas mileage. Thanks!!!

Anyone hear who can speak to the mpg on the 150cc? I get 95mpg on my 125, but rarely ride two up.

ryder1 · Post by **ryder1** » Mon May 26, 2008 5:06 am

Depends on speed and weather condition.

I took a 66 mile round trip averaging 50-55mph with strong winds and got a little better than 80mpg.

Usually riding average of 40-45mph I get 90-100mpg.

Buddy 125cc

Post by **ericalm** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:08 am

Susie Q wrote:Last month I bought my first scooter, a 2007 Vespa LX 150. I'm averaging 67.5 mpg with two up. My boyfriend is looking at a Buddy 150 and believes that it will get 80-90 mpg. For those with Buddy knowledge, please reply with your actual gas mileage. Thanks!!!

67.5 with two up is actually pretty good for a LX150 that hasn't been broken in yet!

Your boyfriend is probably right. Genuine says it'll get 89+ MPGs but that may be a bit on the optimistic side. It does depend on a number of other factors, though: weight, type of riding you do, even elevation and weather. Hopefully, some 150 owner will chip in with their mileage.

jfrost2 · Post by **jfrost2** » Mon May 26, 2008 2:54 pm

My dad has a Pamplona 150, On his first tank of gas, he rode about 68 miles on slightly more than half a tank. Around 110-120 miles to a tank I'd guess.

My 125 is broken in and it was getting around 100mpg and around 130-140 miles to a tank the last fill up.

r0sa · Post by **r0sa** » Mon May 26, 2008 5:31 pm

jfrost2 wrote:My dad has a Pamplona 150, On his first tank of gas, he rode about 68 miles on slightly more than half a tank. Around 110-120 miles to a tank I'd guess.

My 125 is broken in and it was getting around 100mpg and around 130-140 miles to a tank the last fill up.

mines broken in too and before i installed the prima exhaust, it was getting around 140 mpg, with me riding by myself, no passengers

Post by **ericalm** » Mon May 26, 2008 6:42 pm

r0sa wrote:
jfrost2 wrote:My dad has a Pamplona 150, On his first tank of gas, he rode about 68 miles on slightly more than half a tank. Around 110-120 miles to a tank I'd guess.

My 125 is broken in and it was getting around 100mpg and around 130-140 miles to a tank the last fill up.
mines broken in too and before i installed the prima exhaust, it was getting around 140 mpg, with me riding by myself, no passengers

Miles per gallon or miles per tank? Wow, we might need some GPS numbers on some of these because there's a lot of variance and I've never heard of anyone getting this much on a 4-stroke 150cc scoot!

Howardr · Post by **Howardr** » Mon May 26, 2008 7:19 pm

I check and document my mileage with every tank. My 150 is varying from 80-90mpg. My best was 90.9mpg. However, I'm 6'1" and 250lbs. If he is lighter, he will probably get better mileage.

Howard

jfrost2 · Post by **jfrost2** » Mon May 26, 2008 8:41 pm

I meant miles per tank. I got around 100 mpg on 2/3 of a tank, probably could go 30-40 more miles before I run out of gas. In his, he got 68 miles to slightly less than half a tank.

Penguinboy · Post by **Penguinboy** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:00 pm

My 150 St. Tropez is a week old,has 240 miles on it,so it's not broken in yet, and I take odo reading every day when I go out and on my first 2 tanks, and mind you, I visually ensured that the fill level is the exact same and I write down the pump reading both times, I got 84 MPG with mixed riding-20-50 MPH and light winds. I'm 230 and 6 feet.

-Danny

babblefish · Post by **babblefish** » Tue May 27, 2008 12:45 am

Isn't it kind of hard to get an accurate MPG estimate since the speedodometer is not accurate? Don't know if the Buddy and the Blur uses the same speedodometer mechanics, but the speedodometer on my Blur is about 10% optimistic when compared to my onboard cyclometer. This will also affect the odometer since it gets it's information from the speedodometer.

Rhodyterri · Post by **Rhodyterri** » Tue May 27, 2008 1:46 am

I have a St.tropez with almost 600 miles on it. I just had the first oil change and check up and everything was fine. I ride it daily to work on roads where I am traveling somewhere between 25 anf 50 mph and have been getting about 87 to 90 mpg. I am anxious to see if it changes as the engine gets more mmilage on it.

I am 5'7' and about 180 lbs.

StL_Stadtroller · Post by **StL_Stadtroller** » Tue May 27, 2008 3:38 am

babblefish wrote:Isn't it kind of hard to get an accurate MPG estimate since the speedodometer is not accurate? Don't know if the Buddy and the Blur uses the same speedodometer mechanics, but the speedodometer on my Blur is about 10% optimistic when compared to my onboard cyclometer. This will also affect the odometer since it gets it's information from the speedodometer.

Incorrect. The odometer is a geared mechanism and linked physically to the wheel. Generally they are very accurate, effected usually only by altering the rolling diameter of the wheel in some way.

The speedo OTOH, operates by way of a spinning magnet which is calibrated by tension on a wound spring. Variances in the spring lead to wild inaccuracies in the speedos.

illnoise · Post by **illnoise** » Tue May 27, 2008 4:29 am

StL_Stadtroller wrote:The odometer is a geared mechanism and linked physically to the wheel. Generally they are very accurate, effected usually only by altering the rolling diameter of the wheel in some way.

I dunno about the Buddy, but on the Blur, the odometer is *very* accurate, it's just not using any unit of measurement that marginally resembles a mile OR a kilometer.

Bb.

ryder1 · Post by **ryder1** » Tue May 27, 2008 4:36 am

The odometer is accurate as far as I can tell, but the speedometer is off by atleast 5mph compared to a car.

Apiarist · Post by **Apiarist** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:24 am

the best mileage my buddy 150 got was 79.9, usually i am in the mid-seventies. with tony orlando and dawn of course!

Christy · Post by **Christy** » Tue May 27, 2008 4:26 pm

i've only got 600 miles on my 150, but I have been tracking every single tank of gas and I am currently averaging 89.24mpg

xtetra · Post by **xtetra** » Tue May 27, 2008 4:47 pm

I have a 06' Buddy 125 w/ a Prima medium universal windshield. I'm just shy of 2500 miles on the odometer and ride about equally on flat, uphill, and down hill. I probably weigh about 210 with my gear. (After this weekend's bar-b-que anyway.)

If I ride conservatively and don't have too severe of a wind I get around 90mpg. If I ride a little more enthusiastically I get closer to 80mpg.

Worst ever was about 76 I think which I think had a lot to do with low tire pressure. I used to run at whatever the manual says but folks here told me to try 30psi front and back which helps.

babblefish · Post by **babblefish** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:05 pm

illnoise wrote:
StL_Stadtroller wrote:The odometer is a geared mechanism and linked physically to the wheel. Generally they are very accurate, effected usually only by altering the rolling diameter of the wheel in some way.
I dunno about the Buddy, but on the Blur, the odometer is *very* accurate, it's just not using any unit of measurement that marginally resembles a mile OR a kilometer.

Bb.

In that case, my speedodometer is also very accurate in whatever unit of measurement it's showing.

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