It depends on your point of view I guess. My outlook on these industrial products is shaped by my experience. I was a tool and die maker for 30 years. Like my father and grandfather. All my life I heard stories about life on the shop floor. I have a very clear knowledge about how things were made back in the war time factories. The more you know about them, the more you learn to respect the skill and effort that went into building things like these old bicycles. It's a lot like when you walk out into a hay field up here in New England and look at those long stone rows along the edges and think wow, those people cleared this land with nothing but horses and man power and realize they were tougher than I'll ever be.