The latest data released by the motorcycle industry trade association in the UK (MCIA) shows that new motorcycle registrations for July were down a little, by -0.91 percent (10,620 units), but are still running at +6.94 percent for the first seven months of 2016 (71,623 units - the best for the January through July period in the UK since before 2009).
New moped registrations were down by -21.76 percent on low volume in July (719 units) and down by -7.57 percent for the year-to-date (4,862 units so far in 2016).
Total PTW registrations were -2.61 percent in July (10,979 units), but are +5.88 percent for the year-to-date (76,979, also the highest first seven-month market performance in the UK since before 2009).
The Trail/Enduro, Scooter, Custom and Adventure Sports markets continue to be the strongest growing sectors of the UK market so far this year, at +14.5 percent (3,799 units), +11.4 percent (15,151 units), +9.6 percent (6,456 units) and +9.2 percent (12,049 units) respectively.
The small displacement scooter market is -8.1 percent for the YTD (4,440 units). The largest market in the UK so far for this year are ‘Naked’ style bikes (21,317 units, +8.2 percent), but the traditionally strong UK Supersports market is -4.4 percent YTD at 8,524 units.
The highest selling motorcycle model in the UK in July was Yamaha’s MT-10 (255 units); market share leader in July was Yamaha (1,838 units), followed by Honda (1,686 units), Lexmoto (1,086 units), Triumph (759 units) and Kawasaki (619 units); BMW was sixth with 596 units sold in the UK in July.
