It will improve all you've listed but will increase fuel consumption a bit on the motorway. It will throw the speed out too so best invest in a speedo healer. Changed gearing on most of my bikes but they all had front wheel drives for speedo and the trend for gearbox drives nowadays is crazy on bikes that have any likelihood to go off-road as people like to change gearing. Thought about it many a time but as it turns out I've not used mine off-road as much as I thought I would so not done it yet although to be fair its only the extra cost of the speedo healer that has put me off really.

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