This bike slows me down

[PowerDubs_imp]

It's strange that whatever car or truck we're driving, maybe the same one for 200K miles, we get in it and drive it, and rarely do we do anything about what we don't like about it - we just get comfortable with it.

But we get on our bike, and the mirror is too short or too big so we change it. Or the handle bars are too low/too high, so we change it. The exhaust doesn't look or sound right, so we change it. Or there's too much wind, or we need to carry stuff, or.....

So we personalize it, and can see and feel the difference immediately, a source of great satisfaction. We like our cars, but we LOVE our bikes!

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And as far as the bike slowing me down, no, it was the opposite.
I slowed down, and the bike accommodated me.

Not me. I've heavily modified just about every car I've ever owned.

Camshafts, ecu tuning, headers, high flow cats and exhaust, ported cyl heads, modified intake manifolds, bored out several throttle bodies, sway bars, mechanical differentials, you name it... even the occasional completely different engine install, made an automatic into a stick shift, converted drum brakes into disc with factory ABS install.