When is the next time you could take a look at it and see? I am going to try to show you the problem and explain it but it is probably best seen in person.

Basically as you know I am a dude well equipped to handle winter weather (ie chubby) and I like to race the 500 (read plush suspension) so under hard breaking going into left hand corners I actually begin to drag the headers on the ground and have leaned over far enough comfortable where they start to unweight the rear wheel. I have plenty of clearance going right but going left they seem to just be a problem. I have two pictures here, one of a 500 with the same exhaust as mine, and one where you can sort of see the problem I am talking about. You should know that on the stock 500 the pipes are tucked real close to the frame.

bike with exhaust


headers being a problem