Jeff Bennetts wrote: I can only look at so many stock CBXs before boredom sets in, yawn.
That is exactly the point, Jeff, where the difference in personal taste and opinions come in.
For me, a clean, bone stock, true to original CBX is the ultimate.
I realize, that there a many ways to improve on the original. Sensible improvements.
Especially when you really ride the bike more often.
But I would only pay top dollar for an unmolested original.
Not one that has been modified - even into a superior bike.
I guess, I look at the CBX as a true classic, more removed from a daily rider than, let's say, a VF1000R, for example. Not a museum piece, don't get me wrong, I want to ride the bike, but I don't have the goal to keep up with the squids on their R1s, GSX-Rs and CBRRs.
Would anybody consider that a modified, 1973 Kawasaki Z1 would be more desirable than a pristine original??
For many of the guys who have been part of the CBX community for a long time, the bike did lose some of its appeal over the years. That's why they did other things with it. They started bolting CB1100F parts on them to improve the handling. Then they Turbo-charged them to increase performance. Finally came USD forks, single sided swingarms and Ducati tailpieces.
There will be a time in the future, where bikes like this are offered for sale and people will say "OMG, he butchered that CBX!"
Look at the Kawasaki H2s. Anybody picks an extended swingarm, wheelie-bar, expansion chamber-bike over a stock 1972?