Fan Shroud & Heater

Leave it alone. All the parts are there and connected, and if you never use it it's fine.

There is no advantage to removing anything unless you remove it all, plug the shroud holes and install J-tubes. Then the advantage is a few less pounds, that's all.

No tinkering?

@R Thorpe posted:

No tinkering?

Give it time. In all likelihood, you'll not lack for things to tinker with. You'll look back on this and wonder what you were thinking.

less pounds,,,forget the diet,,just start driiling holes

I think the change would add weight the covers for the fan holes weigh more than the paper tubes.

@barncobob posted:

less pounds,,,forget the diet,,just start driiling holes

Lol, once on the Ducati Mobstetrics forum someone did the maths and figured out that every pound you lost was worth $100 in go faster/lighter bits. Up to 20lbs. Then it doubled.

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Up here in Norcal - in the, uh, pleasantly dry central valley - I use the heat all the time - sometimes more in summer than winter.

In winter, if the day's too cold, we just don't use the Speedster.

But in the summer, we often leave on longer trips at o dark thirty to beat the heat later in the day. It can be 40 degrees cooler in the morning than it will be at noon. So, the heating is welcome and makes long, summer trips more comfortable.

This is especially true if we go to the coast or the mountains. On the way home, we'll leave just after breakfast. (Today, the overnight low in Monterey was 57.)

So, I vote keep the heat. You may start taking longer trips throughout our sunny state and find it helps.

(This message was paid for by the wife of Sacto Mitch.)

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True, but I have “belt and braces” my seats are heated and boy do they get warm.

It's there it could be useful, for northern trips, if you move north or the next owner might love you when you sell it.

Yup, resale. That’s what Troy advised.

Leave it in place for resale as most parts of the country you need heat now and then .

Good advice