You mean the heat shield right? I thought about it, but when i took it off i decided not too and just painted it
Yeah the heat shield. Why paint it when you can just rock it without? I had a heat shield on my former scooter due to problems with the weld braking off on the mounts so I took it off and it actually looked better.
The pro to taking the heat shield off is that if you ever scratch up your exhaust you can just put the heat shield back on and it will look clean again.
Some people say put an aftermarket exhaust on but I'm actually one of the minority that likes the stock exhaust. The aftermarket exhausts out there for our bike sound horrible to me. No aftermarket exhaust will be able to duplicate the throaty sound of the bigger bikes with aftermarket exhausts like two bros exhausts.
Actually, I never heard of a motorcycle with a heat shield before I got my bike, reminds me of a scooter.