Some day you should go to Baxter Cycle in Marne, Iowa. He has scores of old Triumphs, Nortons, BSAs and others and they are all for sale. I drop by there a few times a year and drool every time.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.