Originally Posted by sykerocker

However, my teeth start to clench at the thought of this happening to a 531 double-butted frame, or equivalent. And it really goes off the scale thinking about an actual track frame, which until the last couple of years were always rarer than the road frames.

To each there own, I guess. Just the same, as a vintage collector who's watched Honda CB750's with the original four pipe exhaust sell for two grand more than an equivalent bike with a period aftermarket exhaust, I'm watching a lot of future collectibility go down the tubes for a 20-something affectation. Which will probably burn out on about five years, after which a lot of nice but beat-to-uselessness frames will end up on the junk pile, lost forever.