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I wanted to get a few more miles on the bike with the fi2000r installed before I posted; but bein' a trucker between the rain and my company believing if I needed a life they'da issued me one (wait!! sorry, flashback to my army days lol) anyways I'll post here cause the Fi2000r is a *definite* performance improvement (and a substantial one) over the stock bike with just the cobra pipes and no fuel manager.
I would have to say for me the main thing was low-end/off the line performance improvment. The company says that with the 2000 the bike "pulls like a freight train right off the line" - well - lol not sure I'd go with the freight train analogy, since I'm sure freight trains pull pretty hard off the line
, but the bike really DOES pull better off the line, and to me feels much smoother thru the entire powerband with the 2000 on there.
With the stock bike, as many posters to this forum have noticed, the bike runs cold for awhile and can be a little balky off the line; with the cobra pipes added but no fuel controller, to me anyway this tendency was made much more noticeable. Even when hot the motor wanted to lurch when you left a stoplight sometimes, if you didn't keep rev's up a little and/or be real careful letting out the clutch.
Now though, you let the clutch out; easy or no, and it pretty much grabs and want's to start rolling. This may be a small thing, but it really made the ride more pleasureable for me.
On acceleraton the motor feels and (to me) SOUNDS better - I'm not sure how to say this, but it sounds like I can hear both cylinders now firing smoothly in sync, whereas before it kinda sounded and felt almost like I was ridin' a big ole' single-thumper (hate to date myself here but, anyone else remember the days of the BSA Gold Star? God I used to love my old Lightning and Gold Star
At highway speed, with the fi2000 and the cobra pipes, the exhaust note is beautiful - kinda low, not real loud but steady, sweet and deep. Must sound beautiful to people you pass.
I haven't got enough miles on it to tell if there's any change in how cool/hot the engine runs, but when I get some more miles on it, hopefully a lot this coming Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday - if I can tell anything more that I think may be useful I'll post 'er
I would have to say for me the main thing was low-end/off the line performance improvment. The company says that with the 2000 the bike "pulls like a freight train right off the line" - well - lol not sure I'd go with the freight train analogy, since I'm sure freight trains pull pretty hard off the line
, but the bike really DOES pull better off the line, and to me feels much smoother thru the entire powerband with the 2000 on there.With the stock bike, as many posters to this forum have noticed, the bike runs cold for awhile and can be a little balky off the line; with the cobra pipes added but no fuel controller, to me anyway this tendency was made much more noticeable. Even when hot the motor wanted to lurch when you left a stoplight sometimes, if you didn't keep rev's up a little and/or be real careful letting out the clutch.
Now though, you let the clutch out; easy or no, and it pretty much grabs and want's to start rolling. This may be a small thing, but it really made the ride more pleasureable for me.
On acceleraton the motor feels and (to me) SOUNDS better - I'm not sure how to say this, but it sounds like I can hear both cylinders now firing smoothly in sync, whereas before it kinda sounded and felt almost like I was ridin' a big ole' single-thumper (hate to date myself here but, anyone else remember the days of the BSA Gold Star
? God I used to love my old Lightning and Gold Star At highway speed, with the fi2000 and the cobra pipes, the exhaust note is beautiful - kinda low, not real loud but steady, sweet and deep. Must sound beautiful to people you pass.
I haven't got enough miles on it to tell if there's any change in how cool/hot the engine runs, but when I get some more miles on it, hopefully a lot this coming Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday - if I can tell anything more that I think may be useful I'll post 'er
