I finally had time to do it. After countless hours of greasing all sorts of bearings. Then having the values set up along with balancing the throttle bodies. I had a day to ride the GTS. Off early in the morning trying out a bunch of the twisty back roads I know to a place called Goshen Pass. Then daring it to rain and of course got a short shower. After nearly 200 miles I got 48 miles to the gallon. I found that as the chain loosened itself the shifting clunk started. To me just a normal occurrence. If you have a Harley you would accept this as normal. I took a short hop down an interstate in 4th gear for nearly 10 miles and not really noticed. Till I twisted it open to pass a couple of slowing freight trucks on a hill. Yes, busted 100 so fast that it startled me so I closed the throttle down real quick and heard the whine and shifted. Yes, it's running just fine. After coming home and letting it cool down I cleaned up the yellow pollen and the remains of many a juicy bug. All this leads to the storage box if that's what it is supposed to be. There it was still fairly warm over an hour and half later. To wit the only thing I can relate to is that this would had been a great place to store something to heat up to eat. Of course not much and not a candy bar. More interestedly enough my mind wondered to the fact that it would be only useful to dry out a young ladies thong or undies. I always noticed that at bikeweek anywhere the ladies like to ride on the back of sportbikes so that their buns would round out in the air. Seemingly to wrap their arms around to hold on with the saddle horn or what ever. This is the only effect that I have found that Harley riders would look in the direction of a sportbike. As for all of us that seem to be anal in fixing anything abnormal with a GTS what are some ways to insulate the under side of this box to keep the heat out. Other wise it will be only during maintenance or fix something before I remove all the plastic just to insulate the box. Just thought I would change the subject. Ken Swartz
