Modern Buddy

This past Sunday I put 250 scooter miles on my Buddy 125. I was all over the place with all sorts of terrain and elevations. Anything from coastal to 4000 ft elevations to 110 degree desert. It was a fun and epic ride for me. (If you want to read about it click here) Anyways my MPG was the lowest I ever have had. I averaged 64 MPG. On another similar ride I averaged 75 MPG. (You have to take into account that I'm 250lbs and ride hard.)

I've had a Prima Pipe on my 125 for 2 or 3 months and on April 10th, I changed out the stock #92 jet for a #95 to try to get the tiniest of performance out of the pipe. At the highest elevation I was getting some backfire, although when I did a similar ride before I also got backfire, but not as much as I did on this last trip. I started thinking that I was running to rich, but when I pulled the plug this morning it doesn't look to bad. The plug has been in for almost 1000 miles and its been jetted for 475 of those miles. What do you think?



When I jetted my Buddy I did get a tiny performance boost, but I'm starting to think it wasn't worth it. Especially, since I picked up a Blackjack this past weekend too. Here's a pic of my Blackjack.



Anyways, should I just put things back together the way they were? My 125 will be my daily driver anyways.

Nothing to add here, but that Blackjack is smokin'. Nice pinstriping on it..

Tom wrote:Nothing to add here, but that Blackjack is smokin'. Nice pinstriping on it..

Did the pin-striping myself with Sharpie. Just kidding. Its signed by RATT, but I'm yet to research his work. It is really nice work though. Thanks.

Haven't we seen that stripe job here on MB?

PeteH wrote:Haven't we seen that stripe job here on MB?

Yes you have, I'm the 3rd owner. My friend Tony had it before me and a guy named Mark or Matt before my friend I think. But what about my plug?

PeteH wrote:Haven't we seen that stripe job here on MB?

I was thinkin' the same thing!

Plug looks OK; maybe even a little black rather than the "mocha" color some say to shoot for.

PeteH wrote:Haven't we seen that stripe job here on MB?

Yes. I remember seeing it a couple weeks ago when I was searching for some definitive instructions on painting the Buddy.... it's awesome.
If I wasn't super anal about having things like that perfectly symmetrical, I would not be bothering with vinyl on my scoot.
I'll see if I can find the old thread that I saw...

EDIT: I didn't find that exact one, but I did find some other cool ones