Mystery Squeak
Austin - I would check two things:
First I would check the chain for dryness (pretty silly idea but when rolling up to a stop or on a track stand, turning the rear wheel the squeak is noticable from the back/rear).
Next I would bounce the bike up and down and listen for a squeak from the shock's bottom heim joint (where the shock attaches to the swingarm). Mine was totally dry and really squeaked a lot. To fix, pull the shock, use dental pick to remove rubber seals around joint, pack with wheel bearing grease, reinsert seals, and you're good to go. It could be dry upper seals on the shock mount too. But I'd bet on the lower heim joint as it may have been pretty dry from the shock factory.
Tip - you can easily pull the shock by using car jack stands, a 3 ft piece of hardend all-thread, and a swingarm (track) stand. Put bike on swingarm stand, remove swingarm pivot covers, put rod through swingarm pivot, put jack stand on each side of bike just below rod, then lower bike (with rod) onto jack stands by lifting up the swingarm stand. You can take pressure off the shock bolts too by using the swingarm stand on the swingarm (so leave it in place sitting up) while the bike is on the rod/jack stands. Handy when doing valve adjusts or whenever shock needs to come out and you want a stable/secure way to hold up the bike compared to the "jack under the engine/exhaust pipe" method.
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) and she said that while following me and at stop lights, etc... she heard a squeaking noise coming from my bike. I can't really hear it over the Remus pipes and airbox noise while riding, so I don't have a feel really where its coming from.
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