Thanks Blacksheep, that's kinda my point. If you like your bike the way it is, that's great. I love mine too. I ride the hell out of it. If you're more the sort of person that sees a stock bike as a sort mechanical blank canvas, you're the sort of person I was really wanting to talk to about this. The customizer, the hotrodder, the drag racer, the performance nut. The folks like me who really just can't leave well enough alone...lol!
I really don't need to hear how it doesn't "need" a 6th gear. You're right. It doesn't "need" it. But I want to totally redo the trans on mine anyway, if I can make it happen. I "want" to make 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gears brutal tools of acceleration, even with a stock motor. I "want" to stretch out 5th and 6th, so I get a better cruise, and more top end, without banging 5th off the "Fun Governor". I know I'm not the only one, and those are the folks I'm looking for. You don't have to agree, or like my idea. And if I can't find enough folks that think like I do, that's fine too. I've put a lovely 70,000 miles on mine already, and I can easily enjoy another 70,000 just the way it is. BUT... If I can find a way to make this work, I'm going to. For no other reason other than I'd love a 6 speed trans on this wonderful machine of mine... Same reason many of us have done so many different things to our V-Rods. Because we can...