Originally Posted by
RiddleOfSteel
I think it really began with my '85 Ross Signature that I thought I was going to flip and then liked it enough to keep it around (not to mention no profit would be made from the sale as well). The ball was already rolling on the C&V thing and it only snowballed from there.
This sounds a lot like the part B of my story which I didn't mention before. I described in the first post why I stopped liking new stuff, but I left off how I started loving old stuff. I had gotten a good deal on a carbon 2012 Ridley Excalibur frame and built it up with nice Ultegra components. I really liked it. I liked it so much I kept it in the garage when the weather wasn't perfect. So I got an old steel LeMond frame and built it up with 105 stuff to ride on the less than perfect days. A year later realized I had almost completely stopped riding the carbon wunderbike. I just liked the LeMond better. Then I started exploring the vintage bike market and, as you say, it just kind of snowballed.