End of the era for my buddy

[lovemysan]

I attended the smokey mountain crawl this weekend. I saw several rattler 110's. No buddy's, stella's or hooligans though. This was by far the best rally I've been too. Spectacular roads and views, good people. Lots of scooter farkle to oogle. The tail of the dragon is definitely a bucket list item. I went with some zuma friends. I finally after 4 years of modding deleted my airbox and went to a single stage unifilter. I had a spare warped buddy airbox and I cut the box off and used the tube and a short piece of 1.5" lavatory drain pipe to extend it partially out of the body work. I drilled my 120 main jet from .042 " to .052" estimate that to be around a 140-145 ish, not a jet you can get from kiehin. But I threw caution to the wind haha. I dialed the afr using a wideband to 13.7-14.1(disclaimer: bike runs strongest here, don't run it hot and hard and its safe, you need premium, no detonation indicators) Also I knew I would be going up in elevation and the afr would be good and safe in the mountains (actually 12.9-13.2 at the top). I tuned the bike and loaded it with no test runs. To my surprise the bike would pull well into the mid seventies GPS'd. Hit 74 mph in the flat and ran out of room, full fat kid ninja tucked. I'm 252 lbs no shoes or wallet. I'm absolutely amazed how well this thing works. I hit 78 mph down a short hill and concluded I was being an idiot. We rode the rest of the weekend and had a blast. We cruised to the dinner spot that night 1.5 hour ride. We bummed a ride back the hotel later because I was saddle sore. I started the bike to load it and it was ticking. Its the rod again. I replaced the crank in 2014. The rod had excessive side play. It had worn .050"-.060" thousandths off the stator side of the big end of the rod, everything else was perfect. I don't think these are designed to turn 10k rpms. Its making the same noise again. I don't think spraying the nitrous last month helped either. But thats okay because.....

I got a set of B cases for cheap last fall. And I had already ordered a taida 232cc ceramic coated, 4 valve kit. The plan for the new motor is to make 25hp on nitrous, or try to. I'm going to miss my 47.6" wheelbase

[skipper20]

I attended the smokey mountain crawl this weekend. I saw several rattler 110's. No buddy's, stella's or hooligans though. This was by far the best rally I've been too. Spectacular roads and views, good people. Lots of scooter farkle to oogle. The tail of the dragon is definitely a bucket list item. I went with some zuma friends. I finally after 4 years of modding deleted my airbox and went to a single stage unifilter. I had a spare warped buddy airbox and I cut the box off and used the tube and a short piece of 1.5" lavatory drain pipe to extend it partially out of the body work. I drilled my 120 main jet from .042 " to .052" estimate that to be around a 140-145 ish, not a jet you can get from kiehin. But I threw caution to the wind haha. I dialed the afr using a wideband to 13.7-14.1(disclaimer: bike runs strongest here, don't run it hot and hard and its safe, you need premium, no detonation indicators) Also I knew I would be going up in elevation and the afr would be good and safe in the mountains (actually 12.9-13.2 at the top). I tuned the bike and loaded it with no test runs. To my surprise the bike would pull well into the mid seventies GPS'd. Hit 74 mph in the flat and ran out of room, full fat kid ninja tucked. I'm 252 lbs no shoes or wallet. I'm absolutely amazed how well this thing works. I hit 78 mph down a short hill and concluded I was being an idiot. We rode the rest of the weekend and had a blast. We cruised to the dinner spot that night 1.5 hour ride. We bummed a ride back the hotel later because I was saddle sore. I started the bike to load it and it was ticking. Its the rod again. I replaced the crank in 2014. The rod had excessive side play. It had worn .050"-.060" thousandths off the stator side of the big end of the rod, everything else was perfect. I don't think these are designed to turn 10k rpms. Its making the same noise again. I don't think spraying the nitrous last month helped either. But thats okay because.....

You lost me with all of the tech stuff but it sounds like a nice ride. It's something we on the wet side of the Cascade Mountains here in Washington state should be doing. Like up one of the passes over to eastern Washington and then back on another pass to Puget Sound country. Could be done easily in one day with maybe a lunch stop in Ellensburg. Any organizers out there like a scooter club that would like to take this on?

Bill in Seattle
'14 170i Hooligan Matte Green
'15 170i Hooligan Titanium (AZ scoot)

[carolpalmer]

I totally missed the event. Being ascooter freak, I had long back planned to witness it. But since my cousin was hopitalised had to drop my much awaited plans

[az_slynch]

Dang, sounds like you've wrung a Buddy 125 for all it's worth! My Yager is definitely running on the thin edge when clocking 77mph at 9250RPM; pretty sure it wouldn't like 10K.

Interested to see how the Taida build gets along. I've been making a shopping list for my ugly-stick GY6-powered Express II project and Taida seems to be one of the better-quality vendors of GY6 bits.