if you are going to slug and weld a swing arm, you might as well slug and weld a hardtail. BUT, a really long stretched backend on a hardtail looks kind of dorky, a long stretched swing arm (what I guess they call bratstyle) looks pretty cool. One thing, if you have this huge empty section of frame in between the engine and the back tire it looks like something is missing-your cl is a engine/trans unit and compact-unlike a harley(except sporty) that has a trans that is not attached to the engine. This is just my 2 cents, and probably not really worth 2 cents.