Originally Posted by
Picchio Special
OK, first lesson. If you're asking here, it's either "classic" or it's "vintage," it's never "this old."
Er, right. Around here, reasonable price is not necessarily negatively correlated with age. For a good bike, it's the opposite. Except for BIN/asking prices on E-bay and Craigslist, where there is an interaction between quality and age, such that a 1982 Huffy ("VINTAGE RARE CLASSIC ONE-OF-A-KIND HUFFY SCHWINN COLNAGO OMFG!!!!!1") will cost three times that of a 1971 Schwinn Superior with original Brooks saddle and TA crankset ("biek 4 sale cheep").