I love modern bikes; index shifting, clipless pedals, wide tires, mountain bike suspension, air-hardening steel, brifters, the whole 9 yards!
I also am very fond of first quality bikes built before the Nuovo Record years of the seventies and have been looking for one off and on for years.

'70s bikes are nice too. I own 5 of them. Maybe I'm the odd duck here but growing up with them, racing them, wrenching on them, has left me a little bored with them.

Perhaps we who collect them are insuring that they will not be highly valued in the future. There are just too many of us collecting the seventies bikes for them to achieve the value that can come with rarity anytime soon. Much more rare are the bikes like the Cinelli Model B belonging to [MENTION=57649]iab[/MENTION] or the 1958 Paramount belonging to [MENTION=425004]merziac[/MENTION]. I can find plenty of nice Nuovo Record bikes for $600 to $700 dollars. Not such an easy task with the older bikes. Cambio Corsa? Even more rare. Even more costly.

I'm not worried about the fact that upon my demise no one may appreciate my bikes the way that I do. I'm sure they will find other vessels to pour their passion into.
Brent