Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

A straight-stayed Hetchins with basic (for a Hetchins) lug work hardly counts as either rare or classic. What's the alternative, anyway? Spending months and hundreds of pounds sourcing period correct parts so you can enter it in Concours d'Elegance competitions, and then not wanting to ride it because you'll wear out your precious Chater-Lea chainring.

+1.
I use whatever I can afford/find to make my bikes as close to how I want them as possible, I ultimately am the one to ride my bikes and my enjoyment of them is mostly in the riding and not the worrying about whether I have offended someone with my choice of parts.