Oh blimey when it comes to being a member of the 'Change the gearing club' I'm you man I have run my 955 Tiger with another tooth on the engine sprocket almost from the day it rolled out of the show room brand new,with an airbox mod to pep the performance back up you get the same result as stock for 500 revs less and the consumption to go with it.
My issue,here is a guy who's logic and experience is mostly to do with boxers and he's trying to transfer that over,now the boxer motor is a time honoured tractor developed over a million years and frankly you could device one with a knife and fork,the K is a billion light years away.
There are two people who have used a bike for work that's Tim and FJ,FJ was different in the fact the bike was outside the system came in from the cold got all the bugs sorted out with both a dealer and Rexxer and cracked on,Tim always had his in the system and even then it was a struggle.
If this guy turned up telling us his situation would you recommend him buying 30,000 mile K to do what he intended to use it for? exactly!! Both Tom and Brian have done their own thing with K's one has bailed out and bought almost new and the other is trying,did I forget Gramey
I love the old K I've got but have never forgotten that it has the ability to burn one to the ground financially which takes us too extended BM warranties and all that tosh
Jeeze I never even got to mention clogged rads