I think there's the custom camp, the original camp, and the fix it to ride it camp. I'm more in the last, with leanings to the second. I know the machine you have. It's a nice bike for tooling around the trails. Low end grunt and will still run you around town. The Brooklands style muffler grows on you, and I think it has oil-in-frame, which is also ok. For what it's worth, I vote for stock.