http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GNgulpvLAA I want you to decide. Wee-wee do the reporting. Ring it's little neck out @ 10k miles without a pig in site. I mean, sight down the hill and that is closed lean ~ High RPM LEAN = No Harm.
I am running up and down that hill more than a few times. If I need a little burst of load and lean on the tune, this is the place. I had one guy run his video on the fast forward, send it to me. WOT he does not see, is that if you shrink the time, you don't have to sit waiting for the pops. That is one example.
These are throttle cuts, where I think the bike should have seized being so lean. I've used 4° advanced in so many ways. Used the stock pick up wheel the same way. The bike is running clean all the way up without a stumble. This is more I pick up all the bits of pop, the static, the missed shifts, the missed line with traffic. The rev up, the stick it in gear, load it up the hill without the subs or flies. The 10k mile history of this bike is without subs for most of it's abused life. I've run with a 4-in-1 alone. This pipe was gutted. Rode that around for awhile but found it too loud for the neighbors. Corked it down with a muffler bearing to more throw the fallacy of this whole lean out my flies, cry for a map, "I need that muffler bearing map." You've seen those peppered [map me] wherever you go threads, right?
My bike is stock with both pipes. You still hear that 4-in-1 rasp of the one gutted pipoe, so you know I'm at a different note as if this would cause fear, you open the bike up with an aftermarket pipe for the street. You might be new to the 14, or came back to ride from years not riding like myself. You read all these theories about performance mods. You read one thing and the other contradicts the other. This will continue to no avail I'm sure.
I sure questioned that lean deal from day one. Especially when I was beating the first Gen 14's about the same as this little throttle jollies bike I'm on. Well, I had the other 14 without the air cleaner in it before I threw that test mule away. Could not keep the front end down. Just think if I pulled the filter on this bike [which I have] and nothing came of it. I could have leveled the camera the way I had it running in the vid if I removed the element I bet. But the hard braking with one brake did it in. I had it all set as you can see it was there setting up for the corner in the beginning of the flick.
Once I hit all that bad road, ran up to the apex then hit the brake, that's how slow I'm going is itching to use the whole road but I hold the lines being it's that slow. Wouldn't you say the low speed, the heavy hand would cook that engine already? Don't drag bikes blow up in the 1/4 being all tuned too lean? I have 10k with seasonal temps thrown at it. Hot days are lean days. Cold days are dense. Two tuning ranges the bike has seen. One supposedly leaner than the other season. The bike is running flawless with all the abuse with flies out. It's more you listen to the rpm ranges where lean should have happened, call the tow truck.
There was someone who said you will spend thousands on the bike to build HP. That is so true. But if you are that 14 rider that just wants a pipe and flies out, not be bothered with the tech, or the money is an issue, whatever the situation; The lean scare is just an opinion without data. Speaking about data, you watch OTT any? They discussed a hack for the Honda 1000, said they had the sniffer show the same fuel trim, just the ignition changed. So said this one guy on the show. But that's another thread altogether.
What you might want to do is participate in the lean is mean part of the thread. Help make it sticky-able for others to read, not just me and what I bring to the table. What I present is that lean/fly by wire is kind of easy to understand. Does my bike sound like it needs a piggy? So, if you are so wound up with the snow on the road, no mon for goodies, run WOT chew rung out the flat out if you do not have a piggy is not hold back on the throttle position. Year good to go.
"Come Get Me" 
