Its so you can get equal length headers and still fit the cat in. You need heat shields like you say.Taipan wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:57 am I expect I'd only ever ride it once as its not my sort of bike at all. But as much as Duc sports bikes are the only SBs I like, wtf is that torturous Akra carbon snake mess? Heat shields?
IME 916 shape bikes properly cook the inside of your right thigh when you're sat stationary, if anything this looks like an improvement





