Hey gang, de-smogged the bike last night and took a 50 mile ride today, all highway, in the rain. I also removed the baffle on the exhaust and last week had opened the air screw to 2.25 turns out. Well with the baffle off and the airscrew out further the backfiring on decel wasn't as common but still did it especially when in the trails or in town in low gears. Well now that its desmogged by capping the carb nipple and airbox with HELP plugs and I made an aluminum block off plate on the cylinder head it seems to be completely gone. While in town I took it up to 9K and closed the throttle and it just coasted down, nothing other than the engine braking and a little burble as it came down. Overall I'm quite satisfied with the bike currently. This is exactly the bike I wanted from the beginning. Pulls hard and smooth right to 10K and gets there damn quick. Taking off from a stop sign I was running 60 in 4th before I even knew it, 70 in 5th and 75 as I hit 6th. The exhaust seems to have a mellower note too with the baffle out, sounds weird to say but it does. Once at a steady cruising speed the note is real mellow, with the baffle on it seems louder, almost like the pressure of the exhaust hitting the baffle plate. Don't get me wrong its mean sounding running up through the gears but settles out nicely once its no longer under load.

 

Great job, bro! It does feel nice after going through the research and effort to do all the mods and to then feel the very tangible results. I think that is one of the addicting parts of mod'ing. I can't stop

 

Tell me about it, I've got the same thing with my RC fleet. Buy, build, modify, repeat. Actually just as Outlook popped up with a subscription reply I had just come in from flying my micro helicopter.