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I wonder if anybody else has this and perhaps doesn't even realize it. I also have a question about the centre stand.

Have you ever been rolling along on your bike, hit a fresh patch of perfectly smooth pavement, put your bike into neutral, and just listened and felt? Maybe even turned the engine off?
Does anybody else experience what feels like rough pavement little pebbles on the road... a bit of "grittiness" while riding on the bike?

Now that I know the feeling, I can feel it while I'm riding in gear over imperfect roads as well, however if you didn't pay close attention, you might think it was just the road surface. Unless I'm crazy, the pebbly/rough road feeling seems to have a pattern.. a loop.. sort of suggests final drive or front wheel related.

I have a centre stand, so I put my bike up on it, start it up, put it in third, spin the rear wheel up, put it in neutral and listen.... nothing. It's not the chain, doesn't *seem* to be the rear, but it's also not rolling on pavement. I lean the bike back with the front wheel in the air, and my friend spins up the front wheel... this is harder to do and it can't get very fast at all, so it's inconclusive.

Has anyone else run into this symptom?

New bike, <5000km, perfectly clean chain.. extra tooth on the front sprocket (aside: in my opinion this is not the amazing, must-have mod that many people say it is).

Bonus question: Can anybody take a reasonably close, straight side photo of their GSX650f with the side stand in the *up* position, bumped up against an exhaust that actually has a bumper standoff? I would like to know exactly where the centre stand should rest so in a typical installation. I have the TRC stainless Yosh exhaust, and it has no standoff on it (I didn't read that the 1250 exhaust is the same, except that it has the standoff, until it was too late)