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#BUDDY 125 SCOOTER BATTERY REGISTRATION#

#BUDDY 125 SCOOTER BATTERY REGISTRATION#

Often registration and/or a motorcycle licence is not required, although if you derestrict your Buddy to 48mph you’ll want to look into obtaining these. Stock, the Buddy 50 is restricted to 30mph which makes it eligible for the desirable ‘moped’ legal treatment in quite a few states. The Minareli design is the worlds most popular 2-stroke 50cc engine for a scooter application, so it’s been widely used by makers such as Aprilia and Yamaha. This basic design is shared with the other 50’s from Genuine and a host of other scooter sold worldwide. The 50cc Buddy scooters use a horizontal Minarelli engine. Matte black paint and blacked out components except for red seat piping and brake calipers. Diamond blue paint, 50cc and 125cc, upgraded forks, front disc and brake levers, low profile seat.

Buddy 170i – Dual color paint schemes, fuel injection and the largest 170cc engine.

Successor to the Blackjack, but at a lower MSRP due to its use of the 125cc engine and regular brakes.

Psycho Buddy – Limited edition (174 made for 2012).

Flat black paint job, solo seat, white wall tires, performance brakes, suspension and exhaust.

Buddy 50 International – Same as Lil’ International, just a minor name change starting in 2015.

Buddy Lil’ International – 50cc version of the Buddy International.

Tropez’ and ‘Italia’ (Spain, France and Italy).

Buddy International – Gains oil cooler, white wall tires, a larger 150cc engine (except 2007) and the two tone color schemes called ‘Pamplona’, ‘St.

Buddy (Regular) – 50cc and 125cc sizes.

All told there has been eight variants of the Buddy: For 2015 Genuine announced the limited edition Buddy Riot in both 50 and 125 sizes. More recently, the Lemonhead Buddy 50 was introduced as a 2013 model in a limited run of 200.

The fuel injected Buddy 170i also debuted for 2012. The follow up to the Blackjack was the Psycho Buddy which hit the market for 2012 only. All Genuine scooters received a ‘Bad Boy’ air horn for 2008 as an additional safety measure to make sure cars hear you and take notice.Ģ009 marked the last year of the Buddy International and the introduction of the performance oriented Buddy Blackjack 150. The Buddy International got bumped to 150cc for 2008 to better differentiate it as the premium offering in the Buddy line. Genuine also tweaked the lighting, headsets and mirrors on all the Buddy’s and added a 12V charger under the seat for your phone, laptop or music player. Since then a number of versions have been added and prices have evolved upwards a notch, but the basic Buddy design remains intact as of 2019.Ģ007 saw Genuine add the higher end Buddy ‘International’ with its Euro inspired two color paint schemes. That first year the Buddy could be had in 50cc ($1900) and 125cc ($2500) calibers. The first Buddy’s arrived in the USA in time for the 2006 model year. PGO also sells this model through various other distributors worldwide, where it receives other names like the Metro (Canada), Bubu (Taiwan) and Ligero (UK and elsewhere). The Buddy is based on PGO’s PA model which comes in a variety of engine displacements with commensurate model codes (ie. PGO is one of the four main Taiwanese makers (along with Kymco, SYM and TGB) who have been rapidly refining their scooters and competing globally with the Italian and Japanese brands. The Buddy scooter is manufactured for Genuine via a collaboration with PGO Scooters of Taiwan (not to be confused with the Chinese manufacturers). Comparable scooters from the Italian and Japanese brands are usually a few hundred more, and cheaper scooters from the Chinese makers don’t offer the same reliability, performance, quality, resale value and manufacturer support. All the Buddy scooters are peppy, reliable and quite affordable.

The Buddy became highly popular because it delivers a strong all around package at a very fair price by a small company that cares about its scooters. Genuine’s Buddy line is one of the biggest scooter success stories of the past decade.