bigvegan - the issue is that people hack off brazeons for their conversions, which then forces the next owner to spend several hundred dollars on having said brazeons reinstalled and then the paint redone if they ever want to use the frame as originally intended, when in most cases the butchering was done for entirely aesthetic reasons that sacrificed aditional functionality. Also, some brazeon removals are done so sloppily to the extent that they compromise the frames integrity.

Often times the cost of repairing and restoring a frame overshadows the actual monetary value of the frame, thereby dooming a good quality frame that could have made someone a nice roadie/townie/what have you to the dumpster. And all just because someone felt the need to make a misguided fashion statement with their bike.