A lot of things go into making one great bike more collectable than another great bike that has nothing to do with the bikes.

For the Schwinn Paramounts it was the bike featured in Boy's Life or Bicycling! that every baby boomer kid lusted after knowing full well even a Varsity was going to take one year delivering papers to save up for. Fast forward to middle age and your dream (1972) Paramount is within reach.

For the Bridgestones it was those out of the ordinary advertisements and cool catalogues that gave us our first glimpse inside the mind of Grant Peterson.

JP Weigle - to turn the page of the magazine you snuck out of the back of your dad's closet and see those beautiful tubes and lugs while your brain is already drowned in chemicals from the foldout before the Party Jokes page - it was bike love at first sight.

I'm also curious what bikes have made a larger than life imprint on the impressionable minds of both my generation and the ones that have followed.