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My first priority is to get rid of the silver heat shield on the pipe. Haven't decided whether to paint it, or to wait until the carbon-print shield at the link above is available here.

Not sure about swapping pipes, at least yet. The stock pipe actually sounds decent, and a single-cylinder is a single-cylinder - I believe there's only so much that can be done. Many years ago, my Sportster had straight pipes, but I grew out of that. Not really worried about harming the engine (the aftermarket manufacturers do their research), but part of buying this bike was to reduce my footprint, and the OEM pipe has a catalytic converter built in for that reason.

Tires? maybe... I ride pretty conservatively, so I'll probably wear out the stock rubber (in the middle, no doubt) and then upgrade.

Wheels? The OEM wheels have a decent shape (at least to me). my bike is black, so I wonder how they would look if they were black with a red tracer... However, if i did that I would probably just pull them and have them anodized. Powder-coating would be another option, but that adds weight and there are holes in the hub that would be hard to cover.

As far as the tail, yeah, that could use some work. The License Plate bracket is cheesy. When the aftermarket stuff starts showing up that will be something I'm looking for.
 
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