Youngtimer machines produced between 1985 and 2000.
The youngtimer era is the last analogue generation: bikes new enough to ride hard and old enough to have become collectible. The late-80s and 90s gave us the race-replica boom — RC30s, 916s, FireBlades, GSX-Rs — and the two-stroke 250 golden age. These are the bikes today's 40-something buyers wanted as teenagers, and their values are climbing fastest as that generation reaches peak spending power.
Era: roughly 1985–2000 · the last analogue generation · nostalgia-driven and appreciating fastest.
Redefined the superbike, 1992.
Design icon, 1994.
GP tech for the road.
Below: every constituent with live pricing plotted along the € axis. Each amber mark is one model's current median price.
| Years | Liquidity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Models are assigned to R-YT by marque origin, era and segment. Every tracked model with sufficient listings contributes.
For each constituent we compute a monthly median from observed European listings and auction results, requiring at least three observations in a month before a median is published — thin months are left blank rather than estimated.
R-YT is equal-weighted across constituents with published medians, rebased to 100 at its base month. The index level moves via chain-linking: month-to-month it reflects the price change of constituents present in both months.
Where the index has few months of overlapping data, its level stays near its base and we say so. Index history deepens as our weekly collection accumulates — we show current composition until the series is meaningful.
Full methodology paper available free in Reports.