Agree about the big possibility that C&V buke values will never recover to the levels it was at a few years ago.
The economy had vastly improved since then, and we do not see any corresponding improvements on component and whole bike values in the market.
Unless the C&V/Retrobike movement has a big resurgence in the coming years, things would just either remain stagnant or continue to go down, especially as the generations that related to the older bikes slowly get too old to ride or die off.......
All we can hope for now is that many who stashed bikes and components looking for a future windfall reselling them will start putting them on the market for us to buy for reasonable prices.....