Excuse me guys, I have a really silly dumbass question here:

I bought AGR blanket kit from OTR earlier on as I didnt like all the popping and banging when closing the throtyle but just had it mounted recently. Had it done at a garage together with some other work as I am not much of a mechanic myself.

When I the bike back the garage guy told med that they had to remove a part to fit the "popstopper" - please look at the attached photo. What is this and what is it good for/what does it do?

By the way - the bike seem to pull a little better at low revs after this removal... :-)

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