Originally Posted by smontanaro

You are. Don't worry about it. Personally, I appreciate you outing stuff on Facebook. I've had a love/hate relationship with FB and have generally only used it to see what my extended family is up to. Consequently, despite having spent a career as a software engineer, I am often left scratching my head when it comes to identifying vintage steel bikes there.

I enjoy outing bikes/frames which wind up in collectors' hands. a year or so ago a big (66cm or so) Colin Laing I outed on Classic Rendezvous found a new home and just the other day a 56cm Randy Smolenski did as well. Like you, I tend to keep my mouth shut about bikes I'm pursuing. I think that's understood by everybody. Even if a bike or frame is my size (most aren't), I'm generally not in acquisition mode. Also, flipping the script, people have called my attention to bikes or frames I eventually purchased. The most recent example of that is the Eisentraut Limited which briefly passed through jeirvine's hands.