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Originally Posted by Bosgarage57
I'd recommend shoping around for a new bike, you can buy a good pregen for about $1000 (thats what I gave for mine and my girl did as well) That way you will have a parts bike as well. If you wanted to work on it and get it running then you can do that as well.
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This is a great suggestion and having a parts bike would be nice.
If its just the original question that you are considering... I'l chime in with going for the motor swap. It's a hell of a lot easier to swap out motors than it is to dive into and rebuild one. I learned this with my cars. Had a vehicle with an interference engine and the top end got wiped out by a bad timing belt. Spent $$ on rebuild parts and the machine shop work. After 6 months the bearings on the water pump failed and I was back to same situation. Top end was fried. I found a used motor from a junk yard (less than 40K miles for $500) and swapped that mother in a day.
