Eureka!
My 2002 XT600E has been quite an unreliable beast and has frustrated me with two problems frequently debated on this forum - oil leaking from the air cleaner box and coughing and spluttering under load.
I think I've discovered, today, that these two problems are related! The oil from the engine breather coats the silly, miniature, paper air cleaner with a film, that's not easy to see, which traps dust and starves the engine of air just when you're trying to overtake a large truck up a hill into a headwind with a string of impatient cage drivers behind you.
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