I purchased some sound deadening material from amazon, and added it to the left side cover, the left and bottom of the seat, inside on the top of what remains of my airbox, and I also used it to seal the original air intake holes.
It's a lot quieter now. The intake noise is still there, but now I hear the muffler more than the intake. It's way, way better when climbing steep hills. Before it'd be almost deafening even with earplugs in, and now it's pretty manageable.
I have no idea what Lukas means by "floats sideways".
When I run my front tire out I'll probably upgrade to the 19" front rim, and then revisit using a longer shock or shortened dogbones.
Charles.
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