Nothing much

I know, I know...it's been a LOOoooong time since I joined you here. Sorry. I just had nothing really to say!

It's been too cold here to ride much and the Buddy was still experiencing some issues. I, however, solved them! I brought it home from the dealer since they didn't seem to be capable of finding what the problem was and the owner was too insistant in continuing in a direction I knew wasn't right.

I first checked the carburetion and fuel lines again. They were okay. I did a little fiddling with it and rode a ways and it started acting up again. I stopped and messed around a bit with whatever I could reach. Discovered that when I moved one of the coil wires, the scooter would begin running badly again. I nursed it home and replaced all the coil wires with new wire and new connections. Better.

A couple more miles and the symptoms returned. Coughing, sputtering and generally just sick. I fooled with the airbox a bit...put it back in it's original configuration. Better. Briefly again.

Now what? I called my buddy at Scoot Over, Ron, and he told me he had one in the shop right now with the same symptoms and he'd done essentially the same checks I had; carburetion, air intake, fuel delivery, spark. He was going to try bypassing the evaporative canister for the emissions system and recommended I try it. I did. AND IT WORKED!!! The Red Baron is back!!!

So, anyway, I am still in the market to sell it and get something bigger.

I found a Kymco Bet & Win 250 in Prescott. Somebody has to quit letting these Taiwanese people name scooters for the American market... Back to the story. The scooter is an '06 and has about 1200 miles on it. It sold for about $4500 new and he wants only 2 grand! Hell of a deal...but I won't have that kind of cash unless I sell the Buddy....any takers????

Also found an '86 or '87 Honda Elite 250 in Phoenix for about eleven hundred. I see a lot of potential there...

Got nothin' new for Christmas that was scooter related. Just the luck of the draw, I guess...got stuff related to my job and to my music, though, so that was cool.

Wish I had more to tell you, my friends, but there just isn't much to say. Talk to you later...

C-ya...ride on!
--Keys