Base vs Deluxe Dilemma

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This thread should be renamed "divided we fall" - outnumbered '14 standard owners being picked on by everyone else .

I love the black, stealthy, Darth Vader hooligan look of the bike, but its not for everyone. If it strikes your fancy more than the deluxe, I'd say go for it and put the $1800 towards paying it off faster. Or farkles.

+1 on the perfed black leather.

The only sad part when buying new riding jacket 4 years after selling my last bike is that it's a size bigger, and not because of the shoulder... I blame it on my 3.5 year twins!

Thanks for the clarification, I've looked at some many bikes between 4 stores last couple of weeks, I must've confused the '13 panel with '14...

Gumby 1100, I take it you are the reserved one around here? The thing is, most of my bikes have been red, I actually never had a black bike... I dunno, I got 2 more days to decide. Either way, it's an awesome bike.

Point taken. In person I'm very much the stereotypical reserved and polite Canadian, but forums tend to bring out the Mr. Hyde in some of us.

Maybe you need to be under 30 to appreciate the blacked-out base model, but to me it seems to fly in the face of the whole '70s retro theme. As a youth most of the early CB750s (and similar offerings from Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha) seemed to be bright colours, and the only all-black UJMs I saw were stolen and hiding under a cheap coat of spray paint

Point taken. In person I'm very much the stereotypical reserved and polite Canadian, but forums tend to bring out the Mr. Hyde in some of us.

Maybe you need to be under 30 to appreciate the blacked-out base model, but to me it seems to fly in the face of the whole '70s retro theme. As a youth most of the early CB750s (and similar offerings from Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha) seemed to be bright colours, and the only all-black UJMs I saw were stolen and hiding under a cheap coat of spray paint
No worries, nothing wrong with strong opinions. I would love to be under 30, and I'm sure I was at some point, but I don't remember anymore...

My CB750 was the unpopular K8 too, and probably too much black!