Recession this way comes

And I'm happier for it, since it seems that fitting the Special Ops and K&N Lifetime filter couldn't have come at a better time.

I now average 20-30km more per tank (read frame), and this is without trying very hard. Short shifting at about 4500rpm like I always do, keeping a steady speed of 120-140 on the highway and overtaking at pretty much full throttle still gives me roughly 230km for 12 litres amounting to a little over 19km/l.

Not bad at all for a big American V-Twin of the old school air cooled variety. Previously I managed just about 200km and then the light would come on, so all in all not a bad deal.

Of course I haven't done the Race EEPROM just yet, as money has been a little tight of late and shipping the cable from the US won't be exactly free either. Needless to say I suspect the Race EEPROM might give me even better mileage going by what I've heard, and failing that I'm sure the custom Xopti tune will sort everything out, including the bit of a backfire every so often.

Backfire isn't the end of the world though, it's quite bad ass and I like it, but I believe it's a good indication of fuel being wasted on all the wrong reasons so it would be nice to get that sorted.

Hopefully there's enough money left after the festive season to organise the ECMSpy cable from Xopti and play around with the Lightning some more.