Besides sounding "cooler" what are the pros and cons of lowering the idle?

 

my bike idles at 950 and it sounds like horses hoofs the tmax is set to idle 950 and with CFRs it turns alot heads when i pull up. lovin it.

 

my ol shovel with a andrews a grind and su carb. sounded alot like this..when they come out with a cam that can make a twinkie sound that good I'm buying stock in it!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n0Z4...eature=related

 

Only Pro I can think of is sound. The biggest Con is low oil pressure and that would be very bad...

 

Its havoc on the compensator, lower oil psi, to name a couple

 

Not sure how the lower idle can hurt the comp. Oil pressure in these bikes is not something to worry about. Flow is the worry. These newer bikes have plenty of flow with the new pump. I have mine at 830 with the tmax and maybe will go a little lower once it relearns the curves a little.

 

 

Had mine idling at 800 with the tts and every time i blip the throttle i heard my compensator clack. Any engine noise that sounds like a clack is not good. I bumped it to 900 and no clack. Still has a nice galop.

 

Crap need a cold shower after that one.

 

low idle can and will effect battery charging. I have also seen where it contirbutes to ultra short life on the stator as it tries to work harder and if there is a week spot in the windings it will fry. Had a bro go through three stators until we figured out he was setting his idle way down about 800 or so, I'ts been 2 years on the same stator rpms set at 1000-1050.