Hilary has contributed far, far more to the general vintage bike knowledge than his parting out of bikes could possibly detract. He's pretty sensitive when it comes to this issue, too, IMO - I can recall one Italian frameset he sold not long ago where he included the panto parts instead of making the buyer bid on and purchase them separately. He has also sold quite a few complete bikes. I think when he has a bike that is original and should remain intact, he tries to do so. However, many of the bikes he sells were sold as frames originally and built up by their owners - I don't necessarily think that parting out a bike like that is necessarily a crime, especially given that many collectors prefer to do the same - obtain a rare and cool frame and then do their own build. It would also not be economically feasible for him to sell bikes to the US unless he parted them out. Would you rather he didn't make these marques available at all? The very fact that many older British makes are now known and coveted is largely due to Hilary (and a few others) making them available and contributing to the store of knowledge regarding them. To some extent, the cache of undiscovered loot in the UK has diminshed in recent years in any case, prompting Hilary to explore other countries and their bikes more fully (one reason he has sold a number of De Rosa frames in the past couple of years.) He has had to work very hard - increasingy hard - to continue to make his activities economically justifiable - he's not just happening upon barnfuls of Gillotts and Hetchins and gleefully pulling them apart while pausing to rub his hands together. If there's a criticism I've heard about Hilary, it's that some of his items are perhaps too optimisically described in terms of condition, but he does usually take decent photos, and I've learned to factor his level of description into my purchases. If he was perceived as one of those folks in the vintage bike world bent only on profiting financially and destroying classic bikes in the process, I'm sure he would not bother to fly from England and show his face at Cirque, where in the past he has been a workshop presenter.