Thanks, just the answers I was looking for.
I ended up with I think is just as good of a performer as the Bassanis, the stepped Hooker Troublemaker.
You want to know how arrogant some manufacturers can be, I placed a call to Bassani to ask a few questions, and the guy was a real piece of work. He got real offensive when I asked him about the pipes bluing. He shot down the competition, and the heat shield approach claiming that heat shields may blue also and that it was more of a tuning issue.. Maybe so, but who wants to chance it......
I told him that if they really want to be competitive in the pipe market, they'd better listen to me, the consumer, take my input and develop a complete heat shield to keep the pipes, and their customers bikes looking pristine.
If they had a complete heat shield, they would have been my choice..