Modern Buddy

any other buddy riders in Cincinnati? Waiting to see how many good days are left to ride.......

I moved this over to General Discussion. Thanks!

cassie wrote:any other buddy riders in Cincinnati? Waiting to see how many good days are left to ride.......

Not my daily ride but we have a Buddy in the family. If you are looking for a weekend ride, check out the XYL forum http://www.tenyearlates.com/forum

I know there was an Indian Hill ride posted today.

Dave

There's lots of Buddys in Cincinnati.

According to Seth at Metro, they sold about 60 of them this summer.

I'm over on the West Side, riding an Orange Buddy 125 to downtown when weather permits.

I agree with ScooterDave, check out the XYL website.

Count me in! I commute as much as often from Amelia to downtown. Plenty of riding days left as long as you dont mind the cold.

I rode down to Redsfest on Saturday, beautiful sunny day, cold though.

I ride in the Norwood/Oakley area back and forth from work - a whopping 5 mile roundtrip commute. I've only been able to ride with the XYL's once - but it was a blast!

Steve

Glad to hear people are still riding, even though it's freezing out some days. As a new-er scooter rider, I have a couple of questions I need some help with:

1) when it's cold out, do I need to let my scooter "warm up" before taking off?

2) do I need to get some sort of winterization done on my scooter before I put it away for the season?

3) does my scooter need to be periodically started when I'm not going to be using it for a few months?

4) since I'm going to be parking my scoot in the garage for the colder months, do I need to run the gas out before putting it in storage or leave some gas in it?

cassie wrote:Glad to hear people are still riding, even though it's freezing out some days. As a new-er scooter rider, I have a couple of questions I need some help with:

1) when it's cold out, do I need to let my scooter "warm up" before taking off?

Probably not. It has an automatic choke, so it will make the adjustments as needed. You should give it a chance to warm up before giving it full throttle, however.

2) do I need to get some sort of winterization done on my scooter before I put it away for the season?

Yes. At the minimum fill it up with fresh gas, add some fuel stabilizer (like Stabil), then ride it for ~10 minutes before parking it.

3) does my scooter need to be periodically started when I'm not going to be using it for a few months?

Nope. Just be sure to keep a battery tender on it so that battery will stay juiced up, otherwise the battery will be very dead come fall.

4) since I'm going to be parking my scoot in the garage for the colder months, do I need to run the gas out before putting it in storage or leave some gas in it?

See above; leave the gas in.

Come spring take it for a nice long ride, and then consider changing the oil to remove any water and impurities that it has collected over the winter.

Welcome to MB and have fun!

I really appreciate the feedback, you are awesome for helping me so quickly. That's some really good info that can be passed on to other new scooterists!


thanks again

vitaminC wrote:

3) does my scooter need to be periodically started when I'm not going to be using it for a few months?

Nope. Just be sure to keep a battery tender on it so that battery will stay juiced up, otherwise the battery will be very dead come fall.

Fall, eh? You mean spring, right?

AxeYrCat wrote:

vitaminC wrote: Nope. Just be sure to keep a battery tender on it so that battery will stay juiced up, otherwise the battery will be very dead come fall.

Fall, eh? You mean spring, right?

Yes, Spring

When I lived in Michigan, that's about how long winter (and how short summer) felt to me!

I feel like I"m taking a huge step backwards for all my aunts that burned their huge bra's, but what is a battery tender?

cassie wrote:I feel like I"m taking a huge step backwards for all my aunts that burned their huge bra's, but what is a battery tender?

The battery tender is a low powered trickle (i.e., slow) charger that you can hook up to your battery when you tuck the bike away, and it will keep the battery fully charged while you and your Buddy wait for the snow to melt.

I recommend this one, which can probably be had for under $30 at your local PepBoys or other auto parts store.

thank you so much, you are so precious!!!

cassie wrote:thank you so much, you are so precious!!!

Nah, just don't feel like doing any work today

cassie wrote:I feel like I"m taking a huge step backwards for all my aunts that burned their huge bra's, but what is a battery tender?

What are your aunts' names? I might have been cheering them on.

ECS