Originally Posted by mpetry912

it's actually too bad that we get trapped like this. I can understand if the bike (car, airplane, whatever) was truly a museum piece, like @Portlandjim's unridden black Singer, or a Confente built for Jonathan Boyer to ride the tour, then maybe just display it or sell it on. But things like that are more in the class of museum pieces than they are bikes.

@northbend very generously let me ride that Hobbs around the block and what a hoot that was ! Thank you Matt !

I guess the point is that they are "just bikes".

I was talking to a guy at Pebble Beach some years ago who had a Porsche 917 restored by Canepa, hard to say what a car like that is worth but $15-20 million is not out of the question. Anyway, after he got a few laps on it, fresh out of paint, he got the nose right up behind another car on the track, a foot or two away. "Why" I asked. To get some stone chips and rubber streaks on the nose, because that is the way the car was when it was raced for real back in the day.

I liked that.

/markp