I'm not sure if any of you noticed this on your bikes, but I hear A LOT of explosions coming from my R1200S' exhaust while downshifting and engine-breaking. I mentioned this to my dealer and he says it's normal and that I shouldn't engine-break so much beacuse the R1200S has good and strong front brakes. I guess that's a sound advice
, but it's difficult to change my riding style now and it really anoyes me while riding, because I try to keep a low profile, and it would be preferable not to destroy the cat just right away.
So, is this really normal, and can this situtation be somehow remedied with after market exhaust cans or something?
At this very moment I have a "Motorrad Testbuch 2007" (Motorrad Magazin Sonderausgabe) in front of me and they claim that, by their account, R1200S is "Bester Supersportler Zweizylinder", but it's a German magazine and, as they say, everyone praises their own race horse.
Anyway, there are pluses and minuses for every tested bike, and under a minus for R1200S it says "
verschluckt sich beim Gasaufziehen", so I guess I'm screwed on the exhaust issue, or what?