As the title says, I did the full "stage 2" setup on my Royal Enfield 350 Classic : DNA air filter + new larger air intake, FuelX fueling calculator, Kent Cams camshaft, and a full inox exhaust+"muffler" (more on this later). That, with tax, duties and stuff, ended up at exactly 1.165€. That's too much, but I like that 350, it's unassuming, it's cute, there's nothing bragging anything. Rather than sell it to find another bike that would fit better my (hilly) daily commute, I choose to invest on "my" motorcycle.
Setup took about a day. In regard to all the ytubers out there making it look easy, the job has its non-obvious, or usually overlooked, possibility of trouble. If you wanna go for it, watch several of them videos on each topic and keep in mind as much details as possible (I still can't believe I struggled so much just fitting the silencer, a freaking 3 bolts affair ffs). Videos by Tiger Ness aren't bad but he jumps over details a lot.
But you're not here to read a novel on the unreliability of ytubers right? Right.
Now how does it ride? Much, much better. Not rocket-dislodge-your-shoulders better, but much better - with a caveat: the Free Flow exhaust, even with the baffle installed, makes way too much noise. Like, the noise of an open-pipe Harley... While still having all of the presence of a small 350 Indian bike. I don't mind noisy motorcycles, but that small "Bullet" thing has no right to make that much noise, it doesn't fit the style of the bike. Or so I think, and I also think I'm going to put back the og exhaust line pretty soon, preferably before my neighbours put it on fire.
But as of right now, where the bike wouldn't hold 95kph uphill, it now quite swallow them! I wasn't able to tackle these hills on my way to work at the 110kph speed limit before because the engine wouldn't manage it, and ...now I still can't because the sound is deafening.
I'll report here after I put back the original exhaust, I just hope to be able to open the throttle wide as I please and get to my office a bit less laboriously.
All in all a satisfactory experience with regard to the performance, but not so much on installation. I used to own a '92 Bullet 350 Standard, and this bike was made for being dismantled, worked on, and put back. The newer iterations here do a lot of concession to aesthetics, and getting to simple things like valve clearance checking is stupidly annoying, with removing the tank a particularly ugly job.
So, who else owns one of these? What did you change on it?
