Modern Buddy

Has anyone successfully pulled off front pegs on their Buddy. I've looked around and near as I can tell there is no stock "bolt on" solution.
Has anyone toyed with the idea of retrofitting something like this?
http://www.scooterwest.com/items/?_page ... IGANO/1843
I'm thinking with a little persuasion, it could be made to work.
...and at the very least, a basis of which to design off of. (for all you crafty types out there) I'd buy a pair if someone could make them work.

how much are you willing to spend? i can have a buddy fabricate something for you.

Go to <www.vespahartford.com>, CT and ask Doug about a Buddy-fitting peg assembly. I put one on my 150 with just 2 bolts (metric), 2 washers and 2 spacers. Even with my 11s, it's good!

prrfan53 wrote:Go to <www.vespahartford.com>, CT and ask Doug about a Buddy-fitting peg assembly. I put one on my 150 with just 2 bolts (metric), 2 washers and 2 spacers. Even with my 11s, it's good!

Prrfan53,
Are they just to the sides of the floorboards, or are they out front a bit?
Ideally, I'm looking for something that will allow me to stretch my legs forward a bit, not just to the side.
Can you post a picture or two?
Thanks.

monamibuddy wrote:

prrfan53 wrote:Go to <www.vespahartford.com>, CT and ask Doug about a Buddy-fitting peg assembly. I put one on my 150 with just 2 bolts (metric), 2 washers and 2 spacers. Even with my 11s, it's good!

Prrfan53,
Are they just to the sides of the floorboards, or are they out front a bit?
Ideally, I'm looking for something that will allow me to stretch my legs forward a bit, not just to the side.
Can you post a picture or two?
Thanks.

I'm on board as well. Next up, ape hanger handlebars!

A friend of mine has those P series pegs in the original post, he hates them. Of course they are for the passenger mainly... not sure how you could put them on a Buddy.

Here's the pix. The attach points are the rear screws of the foot rests. Hope this helps! Paul

Did not see how to send pix in reply so here they are. P

None of these are front footpegs guys. Are you looking for front ones or passenger ones?

I strapped a stick across the front. It's not elegant but it's comfy!

KRUSTYburger wrote:None of these are front footpegs guys. Are you looking for front ones or passenger ones?

Krusty,
I was thinking more highway pegs, not passenger pegs.
Mike

This discussion happened a year ago or so... and nothing came of that either... other than people suggesting the passenger pegs (which is NOT was I was asking for then either)...

yeah, some of us looked at it but you'd have to cut away some of the plastic just to get to the frame up front so you could mount something then if you ended up not liking it you'd have to get new plastics. Ended up being way more trouble than at least I wanted to get into.

The difficulty with highway pegs (as far as I can tell) will be finding a good place to bolt them where they can support pressure/weight and not screw up the plastic. The optimum place would be somewhere the body panels are screwed into the frame. Otherwise, I think you might have to make cutouts in the panels.

ericalm wrote:The difficulty with highway pegs (as far as I can tell) will be finding a good place to bolt them where they can support pressure/weight and not screw up the plastic. The optimum place would be somewhere the body panels are screwed into the frame. Otherwise, I think you might have to make cutouts in the panels.

I was thinking about making a template across the face of the front panel (facing the rider) under where the storage compartment is.
As you said, the trick would be figuring out what to mount it to.
But in my example, at least the pressure would be dispersed across the face of the panel, and not just at 2 points.
As far as cutting into the side panels; don't really care all that much. Just sounds like another project for the Dremel.
I'd like it if it were aesthetically pleasing, but I am going more for function than form on this project.
At any rate, it sounds like a cool project to flex my creative muscles.
Will let you know what I come up with.

monamibuddy wrote:

ericalm wrote:The difficulty with highway pegs (as far as I can tell) will be finding a good place to bolt them where they can support pressure/weight and not screw up the plastic. The optimum place would be somewhere the body panels are screwed into the frame. Otherwise, I think you might have to make cutouts in the panels.

I was thinking about making a template across the face of the front panel (facing the rider) under where the storage compartment is.
As you said, the trick would be figuring out what to mount it to.
But in my example, at least the pressure would be dispersed across the face of the panel, and not just at 2 points.
As far as cutting into the side panels; don't really care all that much. Just sounds like another project for the Dremel.
I'd like it if it were aesthetically pleasing, but I am going more for function than form on this project.
At any rate, it sounds like a cool project to flex my creative muscles.
Will let you know what I come up with.

If you don't care about cutting the plastics then you should be able to attach some highway pegs to the frame. Might take a bit of modification but shouldn't be too difficult. Not sure how it would look though.

What about using the four frame bolts that are under the rubber floormat?

One could build some vertical pipes and then head forward to support pegs. Then all you would have to do is cut four holes in the relatively cheap rubber floormat.

Any riding position pics?

Could you attach some kind of fiberglass mold to the the existing panel? I don't enough about it to know if you can retrofit more fiberglass to an existing object.

howard

Howardr wrote:Could you attach some kind of fiberglass mold to the the existing panel? I don't enough about it to know if you can retrofit more fiberglass to an existing object.

howard

It would still have to be anchored into the frame.

Of course, if you could do that, you could design a fiberglass replacement panel with pegs…

I attached my pegs to the extra chrome that I added. The chrome is attached at the bottom to a support that is u-bolted to the underside of the frame. At the top, it is connected together and held by the top bolt that anchors the front luggage rack. The square stock that connects the pegs to the chrome piece is from Home Depot, and the pegs are from Drag Specialties. The chrome pieces are cowl protectors culled from an old parts bin at the local dealership, manufacturer unknown.

If you are interested, they can be seen here:

http://sites.google.com/site/buddyboysc ... e/pictures

Not a great custom finish to them, but it is a lot of fun using them.

Forgot to add that the last four pictures are specific to the foot pegs, but the other pictures show them, too.

buddy boy that is one slick custom set up you got there.

Thanks. It was a long cold winter in Virginia this past year.

Sorry. Didn't finish that thought. It was a long cold winter in Virginia this past year, so I had plenty of time to add chrome to the scooter.

buddy boy wrote:Thanks. It was a long cold winter in Virginia this past year.

The snow was the worst part of it all. The cold was a pain for my virgin year, but my buddy being buried for nearly 2 weeks was the worst part.

BootScootin'FireFighter wrote:

buddy boy wrote:Thanks. It was a long cold winter in Virginia this past year.

The snow was the worst part of it all. The cold was a pain for my virgin year, but my buddy being buried for nearly 2 weeks was the worst part.

you sir need a tarp

buddy boy wrote:I attached my pegs to the extra chrome that I added. The chrome is attached at the bottom to a support that is u-bolted to the underside of the frame. At the top, it is connected together and held by the top bolt that anchors the front luggage rack. The square stock that connects the pegs to the chrome piece is from Home Depot, and the pegs are from Drag Specialties. The chrome pieces are cowl protectors culled from an old parts bin at the local dealership, manufacturer unknown.

If you are interested, they can be seen here:

http://sites.google.com/site/buddyboysc ... e/pictures

Not a great custom finish to them, but it is a lot of fun using them.

That's one of the sickest, craziest custom jobs I've seen on a Buddy! Would love to see more pics of the lights in action. Great job!

FWIW: There is a fellow over on the Zuma forum who makes highway pegs for the Zuma 125. Maybe get some ideas looking at his setup.

Buddy Boy is on to something here. We just need to come up with a simpler support that bolts to the frame underneath, and uses the holes for the front rack... This is possible. My knees would be so happy!!

rv-rick wrote:FWIW: There is a fellow over on the Zuma forum who makes highway pegs for the Zuma 125. Maybe get some ideas looking at his setup.

Have a link?

monamibuddy,

Resurrecting this thread from a while back, but there's always an interest...

Did you ever come up with something? I found this on the Zuma forum. I wonder if something like this could be made to work...?

Noisymilk on adv rider did a trip last year on a buddy with a stupid simple solution to this. Looks pretty perfect, the only thing i'd change is maybe having the foot rests on these be removable.


http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthre ... 259&page=3

I've been trying to use the search tool (it's such a tool!) to find a thread that I know exists on MB.
The driver pegs/highway peg issue has come up numerous times here.
There were two very good attempts at fabrication but I can't find either of them. In the end, the cost was prohibitive.

This was the best design anyone has come up with. Maybe you could find someone who would fabricate these for you.
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pdxrita wrote:This was the best design anyone has come up with. Maybe you could find someone who would fabricate these for you.
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Yup. That was the one. Just need them to be foldaway.

pdxrita wrote:This was the best design anyone has come up with. Maybe you could find someone who would fabricate these for you.
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Thanks pdxrita--I had been looking for that post.

That absolutely is the best attempt I have seen so far, but my issues with it are: 1. pegs don't fold, 2. looks like you need to remove it to access your battery, 3. the entire setup just stands out more than I'd like (I'm looking for a more subtle solution), and 4. One of my bikes already has the back pegs and cowls, so there might not be the extra real estate in the rear footpeg area to connect there as needed for this solution.

BeefSupreme wrote:Noisymilk on adv rider did a trip last year on a buddy with a stupid simple solution to this. Looks pretty perfect, the only thing i'd change is maybe having the foot rests on these be removable.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthre ... 259&page=3

Actually, this solution may have possibilities. Will look at it some more and report back if anything develops.

Thanks for the feedback!