c'mon, lets be real here......80% of these bikes you guys would just pass on if they were in the thrift store, wouldn't you?
"ah, nah, it's a run of the mill "bike boom" bike....not worth the restoration or effort"
"nothing special to me, I'll just keep looking"
i bet that's what would run through most of our minds if we saw these bikes pre-conversion anyways
so what are you crying about? let them have their cake, eat it too & hell even make thier bikes look like a slice for god's sake

they're just having fun & there's a market for it.
different "spokes" for different folks