I will attempt to clarify my comment on performance in another way. When the RE that we ride was designed, it was meant to meet certain performance criteria. As the design was handed over to manufacturing, and then on through the years with value engineering ( mostly a fancy word we corporate guys use for cost cutting by cutting corners), and with impact of poor quality in the Indian supply chain ( being an Indian in India, I am entitled to say that for sure!), and because of legislation due to emission and noise standards, the bike is delivering performance way under the design spec. My effort on performance, if I could, would be to get the bike to perform back to the original design spec in concept.
A separate but related point on emissions and noise control. RE has to do what it does to comply with the legislation, and that's fair enough. However, there are not many of us RE riders around ( the Indian annual bike output is a few million and that of RE India is 35000), and even if all of our bikes had emissions the way they were in the fifties, it is not going to make any impact on a global scale to the warming issue. Likewise, if we rode responsibly, the little increase in db also will not be a big issue - for instance when I go on my very early morning rides, I push the bike to a place where it will not wake up the neighbors before I start it. With this background, even if it may be illegal for us to roll back the emission output and the db levels restrictions imposed on the bike, would that also be unethical? Or would we be being poor citizens by doing so? I do not believe so, but I would like to hear what others feel.