tweety persists after mod

[His Honorary Freshness]

To get rid of my sweet friend tweety, I have done the recommended mod of opening the bottom seam of the inner perfed screen in the muffler. That having not done much, I opened new seams at 3,9,and 12 oclock as well. Tweety is definitely quieter, but is still persistent and noticeable. Are there any other recommendations, aside from replacement? It is ridable, but I have pride in my KLR and as silly as this may be, I don't care for others thinking it is a relative of old air-cooled vw's. Could it be a bad gasket or weak clamp where the muffler attaches to the front pipe? -RW

[Mark Sampson]

Updated info: I posted an invite to the KLR list for this ride about a week ago and something has come up I never thought about. People from the list are inviting people not on the list and that is just fine with me, cause I don't care who comes or what kind of bike they ride--your buddies are my buddies. When I put the invite out I knew only about 4-15 from the list (just guessing) would actually show up or be able to come. But what if 160 want to come or show up-----whoa daddy. I see a total melt down disaster for a follow the leader type ride. So------everything is fine----send me those e-mails if you want to come and if it gets out of hand I'll will be forced to weed out the non listers maybe. I've seen this type of ride go really bad with too many people. There's just 12 that replied to me so far anyway, and I bet half of them will run into scheduling problems----- I'm probably worrying about nothing. I may wait another month before I put a date on it. So I'm still taking riders--and if your not on the list---just tell me so I'll know. But I'll have to put a big "NKLR" sticker on your back Thanks!! Mark Sampson