Zuma 125 blog...... - Page 15

AngryScot · 05-07-2012, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by savit260

Looks like a great trip! One thing though... your ocean appears to be on the wrong side of the street ( a little East Coast humor for ya)

You are right but not correct

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Originally Posted by EvilGenius

I like the taillight idea!

Too cheap for the led conversion is all

EvilGenius · 05-16-2012, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by AngryScot

Too cheap for the led conversion is all

Yeah, but this way youre still visible even if the tail light cuts out or the bike is off.

Dorzok · 05-16-2012, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by AngryScot

if you don't mind me asking; what's your size and weight? i'm thinking of one of these for summer commuting and i gotta figure if it'll pull me up a coupla hills at a reasonable speed.

AngryScot · 05-17-2012, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Dorzok

if you don't mind me asking; what's your size and weight? i'm thinking of one of these for summer commuting and i gotta figure if it'll pull me up a coupla hills at a reasonable speed.

Eh "stocky"?

The scoot had a tent, pad, bag and clothes plus an extra gas can (1 gallon) and with me (190-ish) and most hills up to 18% grade and can hold 35-40 or better, it is changing speed while going uphill that is a pain, cut the throttle and it is going to be a while

For none highway communing even in a few 50 zones I don't have any complaints really. 35-45 is the sweet spot for me I rarely find I cannot obtain that unless a really steep hill or have to drop the throttle and open it up again. Most of the times I find that I am being slowed down on misty twisty uphills by cars not the other way around as they cannot corner as well and I can keep up no worries, passing

that is a downhill with a wind and some drafting involved for me at least.
Where are you, maybe someone has one you can take a spin on?
The dealer let me test ride this one.

AngryScot · 05-17-2012, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by EvilGenius

Yeah, but this way youre still visible even if the tail light cuts out or the bike is off.

Of course I thought of that as I am really clever!

Dorzok · 05-17-2012, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by AngryScot

....
Where are you, maybe someone has one you can take a spin on?
The dealer let me test ride this one.

Riverside
that was going to be my next question

sounds like it'll work for me.

EvilGenius · 05-17-2012, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by AngryScot

Of course I thought of that as I am really clever!

Tacoma · 05-20-2012, 01:19 AM

I was always told that the 125cc Zuma was the quickest, fastest 125cc scooter.
Yamaha is the quiet scooter brand that nobody thinks about when they first want a scooter.
Yamaha doesn't much promote or advertize their scooters much, when you visit a Yamaha dealer the scooters are in the dark corner of their show room.
Brother-in-law asked for my opinion on a 125cc scooter and i recommended the Zuma but he doesn't like it told me it looks too much like a childs toy, like a mini bike and he's a big guy and he's afraid he will look bad riding it, then I told him don't buy any scooter, a scooter isnot for him, instead buy a big cruiser motorcycle
I look at myself and maybe other scooter owners-riders as we are practable people that don't care what everybody thinks or how good we look or how bad we look riding one, we love our scooters so much we don't care what anybody else thinks.
Was out yesterday watching the guys on their cruiser bikes, notice how they look and dress, they have to look cool, when we ride scooters we don't have to dress up in all black with a doo-rag and look like clowns, we are more free, we have more freedom, we don't have to follow the culture, we are rebels in our own way. Come to think about it I was once that way, owning cruiser bikes in the past, I discovered I was pretending to be something I was not, the motorcycle controled me, I didn't enjoy riding that big cruser motorcycle, I just rode it to show it off and thinking I was impressing everybody but I wasn't impressing myself. Now I have a scooter, when the tough looking guys make fun of my scooter I just sit there and point my finger at them and just laugh cause they don't know once I was the same way and they are lost, then the same crotch rocket riders can't match my scooter speed on a tight curve, or if I see a crotch rocket ahead of me I always see his brake lights on rounding a curve, my favorate comment I always tell other riders: "Nice Bike, too bad you can't ride it" ha ha ha!

Saltydog86 · 05-20-2012, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Tacoma

I was always told that the 125cc Zuma was the quickest, fastest 125cc scooter.

Ride a Zuma 125 then a Genuine Buddy 125 back to back and form your opinion then. Zuma is not the fastest, fun scoot none the less.

wanna bECO · 05-20-2012, 08:12 AM

nice p0st tacoma. I still have a harley and I ride a 70cc scooter more than any other of my bikes. I am 270... only cuz I lost 20 lbs and I am 6 foot 3. I don't know how ridiculous I look on a honda passport but I have had a van of ladies filming me for 3 or 4 stop lights and laughing the whole time. I don't care, cuz every inch on a passport is better than any ride at disneyland any day!

cbolling · 05-20-2012, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by wanna bECO

I don't know how ridiculous I look on a honda passport but I have had a van of ladies filming me for 3 or 4 stop lights and laughing the whole time. I don't care, cuz every inch on a passport is better than any ride at disneyland any day!

Man, that is just messed up.

People can be so mean.

Do you think they posted it on You Tube?

YamaGeek · 05-21-2012, 11:07 AM

AngryScot brings the fun! I missed this addition, nice trip mate.

AngryScot · 05-21-2012, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by YamaGeek

AngryScot brings the fun! I missed this addition, nice trip mate.

Need to do more trips, the scoot is just a lot of fun.

AngryScot · 06-07-2012, 02:47 PM

So the rear was feeling squishy, on the beastie that is!

Went to pump up the pressure a bit then saw the silver dot in the tread.
Well damn!
So rather than patch it I am going with some new rubber to see how that feels, tires are not too pricey and after a battle trying to find a matching set of pilot pure sc or whatever they are called at the local place, I am going with a set of boppers

.

Will report back,I might have to get my hands dirty and pull the damn wheels off

AngryScot · 06-07-2012, 10:14 PM

well I found the culprit! That is what I get for parking the bike on dirt next to a freshly built wooden fence!

Well at least I found it at home so I could try the road side repair without any pushing of the beastie back home

With probably over 200,000 miles I have had the fortune of only have a few flats where a road side repair was needed. So this was all new to me. The lesson, buy better kit the cheap shitty plug kits are shitty, big surprise huh

So lets make the tiny hole a bit bigger

Now lets try and stuff that slimey string into the hole, wow that was tough, the tire is small enough that I thought I was going to pop the bead by trying to push the damn thing in, turns out the string pushy thing I had on th ekit for the scoot was a bit of a weird shape, I pulled the one of the GS's Kit and that worked much better. just a bit slimmer fit.

trim off most of the excess

now being with somewhat limited space in the kit, I opted for the mini co2 deal

If I had used the GS's plug fitter first I won't have lost as much air from the tire so perhaps they would have done a better job. With the tire void of most of it's air, it took 3 cartridges and I got a whooping 20psi out of it. Enough to perhaps make a some mile to a gas station or the like I suppose.
Used the gs kit with a compressor to fill up the rest. Blasted around the yard a few times to see if it held ok.
Will test the pressure in the morning and take a wee ride perhaps before I get my new rubber put on.

05-20-2012, 08:12 AM	#220
wanna bECO Studly Adventurer Joined: Jul 2008 Location: Third stone from the sun Oddometer: 720	nice p0st tacoma. I still have a harley and I ride a 70cc scooter more than any other of my bikes. I am 270... only cuz I lost 20 lbs and I am 6 foot 3. I don't know how ridiculous I look on a honda passport but I have had a van of ladies filming me for 3 or 4 stop lights and laughing the whole time. I don't care, cuz every inch on a passport is better than any ride at disneyland any day! __________________ Just cuz my bike is shiny, doesn't mean that I'm a hiny current stable '94 Harley .... a blue one '82 Honda passport '87 Honda spacy 250 And an E Bike 85 spacy 250 81 passport (in pieces, many parts for sale) The hit's just keep coming.. bought another 81 passport (11-28-09) http://tiny.cc/ITgetsBETTER

05-21-2012, 11:07 AM	#222
YamaGeek Ancient trailbike padwan Joined: Jun 2007 Location: western oregon Oddometer: 4,115	AngryScot brings the fun! I missed this addition, nice trip mate. __________________ ____________________________________________ We're here because of a love most exestential. (toothy)

06-07-2012, 02:47 PM	#224
AngryScot ^OP WeeBeastie Joined: Aug 2006 Location: ☼ Ca ☼ Oddometer: 18,211	So the rear was feeling squishy, on the beastie that is! Went to pump up the pressure a bit then saw the silver dot in the tread. Well damn! So rather than patch it I am going with some new rubber to see how that feels, tires are not too pricey and after a battle trying to find a matching set of pilot pure sc or whatever they are called at the local place, I am going with a set of boppers . Will report back,I might have to get my hands dirty and pull the damn wheels off __________________ ⊕R1200GS⊕ ⊕Zuma 125⊕ Save $5 on Smugmug "so9RUAXlMm0bE"

06-07-2012, 10:14 PM	#225
AngryScot ^OP WeeBeastie Joined: Aug 2006 Location: ☼ Ca ☼ Oddometer: 18,211	well I found the culprit! That is what I get for parking the bike on dirt next to a freshly built wooden fence! Well at least I found it at home so I could try the road side repair without any pushing of the beastie back home With probably over 200,000 miles I have had the fortune of only have a few flats where a road side repair was needed. So this was all new to me. The lesson, buy better kit the cheap shitty plug kits are shitty, big surprise huh So lets make the tiny hole a bit bigger Now lets try and stuff that slimey string into the hole, wow that was tough, the tire is small enough that I thought I was going to pop the bead by trying to push the damn thing in, turns out the string pushy thing I had on th ekit for the scoot was a bit of a weird shape, I pulled the one of the GS's Kit and that worked much better. just a bit slimmer fit. trim off most of the excess now being with somewhat limited space in the kit, I opted for the mini co2 deal If I had used the GS's plug fitter first I won't have lost as much air from the tire so perhaps they would have done a better job. With the tire void of most of it's air, it took 3 cartridges and I got a whooping 20psi out of it. Enough to perhaps make a some mile to a gas station or the like I suppose. Used the gs kit with a compressor to fill up the rest. Blasted around the yard a few times to see if it held ok. Will test the pressure in the morning and take a wee ride perhaps before I get my new rubber put on. __________________ ⊕R1200GS⊕ ⊕Zuma 125⊕ Save $5 on Smugmug "so9RUAXlMm0bE"

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05-20-2012, 01:19 AM	#218
Tacoma Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Feb 2011 Oddometer: 233	I was always told that the 125cc Zuma was the quickest, fastest 125cc scooter. Yamaha is the quiet scooter brand that nobody thinks about when they first want a scooter. Yamaha doesn't much promote or advertize their scooters much, when you visit a Yamaha dealer the scooters are in the dark corner of their show room. Brother-in-law asked for my opinion on a 125cc scooter and i recommended the Zuma but he doesn't like it told me it looks too much like a childs toy, like a mini bike and he's a big guy and he's afraid he will look bad riding it, then I told him don't buy any scooter, a scooter isnot for him, instead buy a big cruiser motorcycle I look at myself and maybe other scooter owners-riders as we are practable people that don't care what everybody thinks or how good we look or how bad we look riding one, we love our scooters so much we don't care what anybody else thinks. Was out yesterday watching the guys on their cruiser bikes, notice how they look and dress, they have to look cool, when we ride scooters we don't have to dress up in all black with a doo-rag and look like clowns, we are more free, we have more freedom, we don't have to follow the culture, we are rebels in our own way. Come to think about it I was once that way, owning cruiser bikes in the past, I discovered I was pretending to be something I was not, the motorcycle controled me, I didn't enjoy riding that big cruser motorcycle, I just rode it to show it off and thinking I was impressing everybody but I wasn't impressing myself. Now I have a scooter, when the tough looking guys make fun of my scooter I just sit there and point my finger at them and just laugh cause they don't know once I was the same way and they are lost, then the same crotch rocket riders can't match my scooter speed on a tight curve, or if I see a crotch rocket ahead of me I always see his brake lights on rounding a curve, my favorate comment I always tell other riders: "Nice Bike, too bad you can't ride it" ha ha ha!