need some fast decision making help before the weekend!!!

[XsteveedgeX]

ok, my dream build would be on a 70s honda cb750. I have recently found 2 cheap that would be an awesome start. one is a 74 (awesome, like older ones), has a title, but has some chopper style forks and a huge sissy bar, doesn't run. so it'll need new parts here and there. the other is a '79, $100 less, complete minus the seat, doesn't run, and also comes with an '83 honda cx500 in the same condition- no titles. BUT i can find a titled frame for around $200 so i could swap it all over. so which way do i go, they are both about an hour in the opposite directions. it would be nice to have the older one with a title, but to get 2 bikes for the price of one! i should be able to sell off the other bike or parts to fund the frame and other parts. help me decide, please!!!

 

[VonYinzer]

Buy the 74. For so many reasons (first of which... cx500s are the devil ). Buy what you want when you can. You like the SOHCs, get a SOHC. I've owned tons of bikes that weren't quite what I wanted and regret 99% of them.

 

[hillsy]

The 79 is $100 less because of the CX, not in spite of it

Get the bike with the title - because it's the one you really want.

 

[XsteveedgeX]

ok, i am going to look at the 74 w/ title tomorrow and hopefully bringing it home! this thing is crazy looking right now, i'll have to get some pics up if i get it. it currently sports some long chopper style forks and about a 2' sissy bar. i also just finished my first bike build which is a 74 cb200. i will have to get those pics up too. thanx for the help....

 

[Tim]

The '74 is the way to go for sure - but make sure the frame hasn't been hacked up. It might have been raked out on the front end etc. As long as the frame is stock you're good.

 

[Scruffy]

Just rock the 74 as a period chop and have fun riding it. If it was done right, you will be comfortable riding it, it will handle fine, and you won't have a "belly button" bike (like HD Road King/Softail and air cooled Bug/Bus, every has/had one at some point). With cafe style being the "latest and greatest cool kid craze"... ride something straight out of the 70s and watch the reactions, those who "get it" will understand why.

Hell my 1998 Suzuki screams 68-78 build right now, but it's likely going back to a 48-58 build style, beach bars, period lighting, the works, including a front tls drum conversion and no bar switches.