Tom, Surely you are not complaining of prices becoming realistic. While I appreciate that some classic lightweights have a cachet and sometimes a charm that lifts them above the others, a forty or fifty year old bicycle is still just that... serviceable but old. If it works well and looks right (and lugged steel lightweights always do,) what more do you want? Surely not the passing glory of having paid through the nose. Nothing in the world, I suppose, has an intrinsic value; things are worth what people are prepared to pay, but do we really want to talk prices up? The only people to gain from that are the ones who want to sell for a profit. They are known as dealers and we probably do need them as they are skilled at finding parts as well as bicycles and they often save equipment from destruction, Nevertheless, we collectors and riders do not have to try to make a profit out of each other. Let us talk prices down, not up! Stuart Tallack basking in the soft rain of West Sussex.