Guess I might be the first.
I actually wasn't riding it when it blew. My wife and I were out of town and I opted to let my best friend of 17 years borrow the Blur while I was out of town. He's actually the one that got me interested in riding many many years ago. Him and his wife are raising two great kids and he hasn't owned a motorcycle in a few years so I usually let him borrow something while I'm out of town not using it. It always makes him happy and he's done many things for me in the past also. He's the only one I ever trust to borrow my bikes and he has several times in the past without incident. Either way, I doubt he did anything out of the ordinary. It was a bone stock Blur with 3900 BDU's and for what ever reason, it must have just been a ticking time bomb ready to go. I guess it could have easily have been me or anyone else that was riding it when it blew. He was just riding it back and forth to work and on this particular day, he said he was riding it and it suddenly made a bunch of noise and lost power. At first he was thinking it was the belt that had went just from the way it acted, but when he stopped and saw oil everywhere, he knew the worst had happened. So tonight, we started to tear into it to see what we could find. Well, we found one nice big hole at the back of the motor. I don't know internals of motors that well, but it looks like the rod went through the side of the block! The bits of metal pieces everywhere and also some decent chunks.
Looking down, you can see the tiny bits of metal everywhere and a big hole in the back that shouldn't be there.
I'm still trying to figure out what that bolt goes to and what it was holding in place?
My friend keeps saying he will come through and make this right, but I really don't think this falls on him if he wasn't abusing it. The last thing I wanted to have happen was for him to have to fix my scooter because of a mechanical failure that could have easily happened to me. If you don't remember, I actually had the Blur up for sale. I had no indications that anything at all was wrong with it. It ran well and it has absolutely no mods done to it. The oil had been changed regularly, and was full. And like I said, it was less then 4k miles on the scooter.
So now trying to find the best option for both of us. He was actually really digging the Blur. In fact, he was on his way to go look at some other scooters when it blew as he was having so much fun on mine. But now he's got a terrible taste for scooters and can't believe such a low mileage motor let go.
He's already called around to price new motors and they are $$$$ (expensive). Way too much to even be an economical decision. Does the Blur share a motor with anything else? I would be fine with finding a good used motor to put in there.
What about parting it out? I have a very clean Blur with no cosmetic damage and a clean title? Just not sure there is much of a market for the rest of the bike?
The best option would probably be finding someone that totals their Blur, but the motor is still good and I can pick it up on cheap and transfer the motor from it to mine. Maybe someone wants a project Blur they can put their own motor in? Maybe the 200 Blur motor!
In the end, I really don't plan on keeping the Blur. I really enjoyed the scooter, but my commute is too far now to make the 150 economical. Either I'll fix it and make someone a nice scooter to enjoy, or sell it for parts or whole.
Ugh! I just can't believe this happened. This really sucks!!!!
