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What’s your favourite modification/addition to your bike

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As the title suggest what is your favourite modification or upgrade that you’ve added to your bike?
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Getting the Suspension to accept my way of riding, followed by heated grips.
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Tyres
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Battery tender lead - first thing that gets fitted. Then usually a different windscreen.
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So on my bike.. the slip on can, upgraded sprockets and gearshift indicators were already fitted so I would probably say having the suspension set up is the best thing I’ve done so far
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At this time of year, definitely heated grips. Also like a gear indicator, but otherwise, don't do too much to mine.
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On road, heated grips and exhaust.

Off road, hand guards and mousses.
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I suppose my favourite addition to my bike was called Sarah years ago , still see her occasionally and still kick myself for letting her go so easily but hey ho , but now a higher screen and road tyres on the street scrambler type thing
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On the ZH2 it has to be replacing the awful stock rear shock with a Nitron unit and then getting the suspenders set up.
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For me there were the factory fit upgrades where think would be things like quick shifter and auto blipper and heated grips. But for after market mod has got to be the Lextek end can which is just audio porn.
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Aftermarket clip ons. For me they make a huge difference in comfort and leverage.

Second would be rearsets, always found the slippery factory ones a pain.
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I guess that would be the full Akrapovič system and remap - liberates quite a bit of horsepower and sharpens up throttle response. Looks and sounds nice too.
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Blipper, because I’m a tart
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Heated grips and just putting quad locks on the fleet which will make phone holding a lot easier than the hotchpotch of holders I currently use.
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Suspension Setup followed by Tyres
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