What happens to the old MotoGP REALLY? But really eh!

Every once in a while talking to some reader or some colleague, some cliché comes up, which is either partly true but not 100% true or, as in this case, more of a factoid than a fact.

What really happens to the MotoGP of years past?

There are differences, someone will say, who knows, in the sense that while Japanese motorcycles at the end of their life are pressed and have a shorter life cycle, in the case of Ducati there is really a rental system at various round-trip levels that puts the material back into circulation and there are various circulating evolutionary steps. In short, the bikes last a while and then-and then...and then....
Actually, if you have also heard the story about Japanese motorcycles being pressed, know that it is an urban legend.
It's been done publicly on a couple of occasions just to stop certain trades and say, if you find it out there, know it's fake because we press them. Do you see that we press it? We press a couple of them on a couple of occasions.
Of course you know how our press does investigations, and having seen that they pressed one, they thought that it always happens that way, and the Japanese like to believe that. And the press is pleased to please.
But know, that this is not the case. Jap motorcycles are made to disappear. In the sense that they have a shorter life cycle and then they end up in certified places like some official museums of the houses, some important factories like the Honda plant in Atessa and things like that. So you understand from you that if there are some of them in some places, obviously they are not pressed. At most they are withdrawn. But so if you find a Japanese gp bike for sale, then maybe it's real? 99.9% no.

If you notice, even official Japanese motorcycles are there, but the ones that are there date back to the mid-1980s at most. Then there was a stop. Because of course there was an exaggerated trade as with the relics of saints, and collectors are often the victims of pricks. The entanglements we did in Italy and nord Europe with motogp and others, tarred, especially some special parts, remain in the "annals" of collecting.
I mean, no one presses millions of euros, quiet though you can't even find them around, these bikes. They just don't show you where they put them. Rightly so.

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