If you know us, we like riders that ride! Our passion is with people that use our products to their full potential. Angie Buettner has certainly achieved that goal as she rode her pink Buddy 125cc over … 40,000 miles! We show her here with Dave Rueve, the owner of Metro Scooters in Cincinatti, Ohio. As a owner, rider and a truly enthusiastic supporter of the Genuine Buddy, Angie was chosen as the Buddy Of The Year for Genuine Scooters and received a new Buddy Blackjack scooter from Dave.
What seems particularly special to me about Angie’s story is – well, that it could have very easily never happened. Riding is an art and a science. How one becomes a rider can make all the difference. In Angie’s own words (and with the help of husband, Ben):
“Once we got home I rode about 20 feet and had to push my scoot back into the driveway because I was scared to death and clueless about how to ride this “too heavy, too much power” machine. Ben suggested I search online about Riding a Motorcycle because I probably wouldn’t listen to him; he’s right. The next day I bought all the gear and loaded the bike into the trailer. We went all of a mile to the biggest deserted parking lot we could find. I rode that Buddy 50 miles that afternoon in the parking lot! Ben had me ride around tree islands, around cones, teaching me to counter steer and lean into curves. Nothing like being thrown into something! But I had just spent $2600 and what good was it if I wasn’t going to ride it? Next night after work we actually rode to a nearby county park with some slight curves and hills. We rode and rode and rode and rode until dark. Next day we did the Park thing one more time. The 4th day we actually rode to work. Mind you, it was the backest roads we could find but a ride to and from work nonetheless. And the rest is history. I wasn’t about to let my fear of motorcycles (remember, I was an x-ray tech who had worked on lots of motorcycle crash victims in my life) ruin this for me. We signed up for the next MSF Class and riding became even more intense and fun.
What’s that got to do with anything? Just that everything and everyone pointed to the Buddy and there has never been even a hint of regret for those purchases. Riding with so many motorcyclists I get bombarded with “When are you going to get a real bike”. The standard reply is “When I need to go faster than 70mph or this one breaks in half”. ‘Nuff said and they leave me alone. I have skills, I have confidence and I have God as my passenger.”
Angie, that cute, pink Buddy never did break in half and now you’ve got the top of the line Buddy to break-in. MPG Motors salutes you and thanks you for your support of America’s Smallest Scooter Company!
