I suspected such sour grapes, then just open your wallet. Or, as many have done here make your own good luck. Plenty of the bikes shown in the images of this thread were overlooked by others, neglected, garage sale finds, trash heap fodder, gifts to the current owners as the neighbors or co-workers knew them as the "old bike guy" who takes an interest in bikes. Some just wrote the check to get what the have, but not many. (aside from rolling over other's discards into capital to buy that special bike).