While not being Joe either, I can't remember the brand of my stands but they have four wheels instead of two (per stand) and seems alot more steady than the two wheel units.
Man, you sure have all the toys and bling. Yea, I have a front and rear stands but I had to buy mine used off of e-bay. Does your wife know about this?
If I were you, I would look for a cheap stock seat. That way, you could try different things to find out what works for you and you don't mess up the factory one.
I am pretty sure that you will need a longer chain. Unless you drag race, I think it will be over geared. The chain at some point will drag on your center stand but I'm not sure if it is with the 48 or not.
Anybody who has worked at a manufacturing plant knows that it wouldn't be to hard to get something that just isn't perfect. Most plants are happy with a 97-98 % of good product. Well someone has to get the other 3%. :cry:
You can easily get it up by by chopping the throttle at 6,000 and then wide open but I remember the first time that I rode my 97. It didn't have much gas in it but I just rolled on the throttle to wide open and the front end just started coming up. I never had a bike that would do that before. Great feeling.
Yep, you are right. I think that is why Honda changed it, to give the bike more torque at a lower rpm while trading off the higher rpm charge of the older model. So, would you say that you like it better?