K&N air filter worth the money?

ezrider714 wrote: "most restrictive and poorest filtering" are at opposite ends of the spectrum .........

ezrider714 wrote: The restriction by the very nature will be better filtering, if less air total can pass thru the filter, less dirty air can pass thru also, which makes it better filtering, As i stated earlier I have used 1 for over 35 yrs and 63,000 miles, have never had to rebuild the engine and compression test numbers are within spec
People whose living depend on going the fastest use K&N religiously, if it's good enough for them it's good enough for me. .
Ever get caught in a torrential down pour that soaked a paper filter to the point it won't pass air at all?? Even after drying out. At that point they show their true colors :ohmy: That's when I switched to K&N and never had that issue again
I guess everyone can blow their money how the see fit on their bikes, I'm just reporting my experience using K&N's on several bikes over the past 35 years..
Fancy bar graphs mean nothing without the supporting data., such as engine rpm's, total flow in cfm's the size in microns that can pass thru the filter...etc
I use them on all my vehicles 2 and 4 wheel kind, have yet to be shown a meaningful test that encompasses real world conditions, they can be cleaned much more often than you can change a paper filter unless you have unlimited funds to purchase paper ones constantly :ohmy:
YMMV
EZ