We're always like "Man, this is awful, prices on old bikes have gotten sky high, a regular guy can't afford to buy one any more, I may as well quit" on the way UP, and then "Look how prices of old bikes have fallen, my collection is worth nothing now, I was counting on that for my retirement, I may as well go jump in the canal" on the way DOWN".

Why not "Prices for old bikes have gone through the roof, my Humbley-Pudge 500 is worth 3 times what it was when I bought it, I'm sittin' in the catbird seat now" OR "I can't believe I can get a Norton Commando for £5K now, they were £10 last year and I thought I'd never get one."

But noooo, we've got to be "walk to school in the snow uphill both ways" miserable 4 Yorkshiremen gits complaining about having to eat a handful of hot gravel in the morning ....