Originally Posted by
AdventureManCO
It sounds like the OP figured out their plan.
This is something that resonates among many of us, myself included. It would be good to get a plan going now, because I sincerely believe that as e-bikes become one of the most dominant forces in the biking industry, people are going to devalue human-powered bicycles (especially old, incomplete, neglected, and vintage) bikes like never before. We are just seeing the start.
You may well be right, one local LBS is pushing E-bikes and conversions HARD! But there will always be people who will value vintage bicycles, probably not on the scale we do now but somebody will.They're too cool not to.