Originally Posted by
randyjawa
I implore you all to help preserve the old bicycles!
Except for the tiny handful of historically significant machines in OEM condition out there they are Just Old Bicycles, of no particular value or interest whatever.
The horde of utterly insignificant models we see time and again in garage sales and "what's this worth" are not a rare endangered class of mechanical-dodo but utterly common old junky bikes gathering dust to appear now as "Vintage" for absurd $ on your local CL. If every one listed on CL was relegated to the crusher today a plethora would appear on CL tomorrow: no less junky, uninteresting, worthless and un-rideable.
Who cares, other than the Period Correct Police?
-Bandera