Good points all but you don't really know where you are headed until it goes good, bad or ugly and by then it may be too late.

If its all or mostly about the money or worse if it becomes about it as it easily can, C+V bikes are a sinkhole, plain and simple although many here make a heckuva go of it.

Value, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, if you're in it for the money, you may never get there and you may become very disillusioned in the process.

I have paid dearly for several of mine and have gotten many screamin deals, had bikes given to me and everything in between, the pile is huge, so be it.

The ones I likely overpaid for, I did so willingly and gladly, very happy to find them and snag them, no regrets and will probably loose my shorts, no matter, I got them.

I drag raced motorcycles twice a week for 18 years, won a lot, lost a lot, spent a ridiculous amount of $$$ just on entry fees alone, likely in the 10's of 1000's, fortunately the bikes were bulletproof so they were a fraction of the program where many spend $100's of 1000's chasing speed and glory that never comes.

Had an absolute blast, delivered and received 1000's of azz whipings and wouldn't trade that for anything, bicycles are a drop in the bucket compared to that program.

Satisfaction, accomplishment and enjoyment can be priceless.