new rider need advice

[chaz]

As far as I know the exhaust is stainless steel at the front and under the engine and to the cat, you can check with a magnet as stainless is non magnetic, so there should be no need to remove it. The nuts on mine are very rusty, I dont know if you could get a nut spliter on or cut them off but unless you need the engine out (or maybe the swingarm) then why worry about it.