Most bad classic purchases are not bad motorcycles — they are good motorcycles bought by the wrong person.
By Rotarium
An inverted buying guide. Opens with a counterintuitive finding from the Rotarium dataset: machines above €10,000 score materially worse on ownability, maintenance cost, parts availability and electrics than those below it — significance and ownability run in opposite directions. Describes six structural traps (the sitting paradox, the pre-service dump, the supply-chain clock, the E10 fuel time bomb, variant confusion and the exit problem), then organises what to avoid by who you are: first-time buyer, no-workshop owner, weekly rider, value-seeker, no-garage owner and thin-market buyer. Includes a composite risk table and a ten-minute inspection sequence.