Re:
My two cents:
If you need to thin the herd, have a representative bike from each historic era, but emphasize one era. This also leaves a way to get back in next year (if it goes well by) highlighting another era...
Don't just display bikes, but components, too. A display of forks that shows the progress from early elastomers to modern would be of interest. Include some disassembled to show internals. Same for shifters, (friction, indexed thumb, rapidfire, grip shift, rapidfire plus, etc). And these displays could be set up on boards/walls to not take much floor space. Again, if space is limited, just do a display of a single component or a single era.
I don't care for the affordability angle, either.
My two cents:
If you need to thin the herd, have a representative bike from each historic era, but emphasize one era. This also leaves a way to get back in next year (if it goes well by) highlighting another era...
Don't just display bikes, but components, too. A display of forks that shows the progress from early elastomers to modern would be of interest. Include some disassembled to show internals. Same for shifters, (friction, indexed thumb, rapidfire, grip shift, rapidfire plus, etc). And these displays could be set up on boards/walls to not take much floor space. Again, if space is limited, just do a display of a single component or a single era.
I don't care for the affordability angle, either.