I know this is an older thread but here goes. I recently received a new 2022 ZX 14 myself . It was shipped to me in Texas from Minnesota. Funny thing is I was already planning to swap out the factory bazookas with a set of Yoshi's, which I already had standing by before I received the bike. Well, lo and behold when I pulled the factory cannons off, exact same scenario. Both had bent up mid pipes just like the photos. When I say just like the photos, I mean just exactly like the photos as if those photos were taken by me of my pipes. I wrote it off to the shippers not knowing how to tie down the bike during shipment, but now I'm not sure what to think as I never actually witnessed the shipper un-securing the pallet that the bike was shipped on. After a thorough under bike inspection I didn't notice anything else out of order nor did it appear that the rest of the exhaust upstream was damaged in any way. The whole thing seems very bizarre indeed.