Separating categories by money, because the effort between the two is different, and saying that neither get the recognition they deserve, doesn't give the rest of us very much credit. I believe most folks on the RRB forum, know what skills it takes and how much it costs to get a bike to look right. Honesty is some of it but you can't fool everybody and even if you did, so what. This is RRB. We build rats. Some here do some fantastic stretch by scratch bikes, and some do recycled rehashed rebuilt ratbombs... Bikes built from all over the world, some with big money, and some with nothing but ingenuity. Let's NOT put them all into little categories according to money. Chrome ain't patina, and the bikes that get the recognition here are the ones that balance engineering with art. Your wrong if you think the guys with less cash are underdogs or less recognized or want to be in our own little poor division. We like to mix it up with the big money.
Carl.