Originally Posted by sillygolem

Mostly this is to keep people new to collecting from spending way too much on a completely average bike. There are plenty of people who know nothing about bikes selling them and thinking because the name is either unheard of or very common it's worth a LOT of money. This seems to have gotten worse now that people have seen American Pickers and claim the "picker" title thinking anything they sell was built by Space Jesus and hand delivered by James Bond. Look at the "It came from eBay/Craigslist" post sometime.