So, which brand is most popular?

[cave weta]

The figures for off road bike sales for 2011 are out as compared to 2010,
Orange, red or Yellow, what are people buying?


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Forza last year sold 416 offroad bikes between 70cc and 230cc but are not mentioned here although being in the marketplace for 6 years now.
(blame statistics NZ for that)


If you want to see the road bike and quad and scooter sales figures I can post them too

[cheese]

Interesting to see Honda double their sales figures.

[Zamiam]

Kawasaki surprises me. I know KTM is good machinery but would never have thought they out sold Kawasaki

[Drew]

Interesting to see Honda double their sales figures.Maths has changes since I went to school it seems. They increased their sales by half...ish, 2010 to 2011.

[cheese]

Maths has changes since I went to school it seems. They increased their sales by half...ish, 2010 to 2011.

Whoops LOL!! Thanks for pointing that out.

[Ender EnZed]

If you want to see the road bike and quad and scooter sales figures I can post them too

I'd be interested to see what they're like.

[DMNTD]

No surprises re Honda being up the top with the way they "dumped" a load of stock on the market

[Mungatoke Mad]

Kawasaki surprises me. I know KTM is good machinery but would never have thought they out sold KawasakiKawasaki surprises me 2 the fact they sold any of those hunks of junk at all :crazy:

[krad_nz]

I'm also surprised with Kawasaki selling very little compared to the others. Especially with their innovation of late, ie: Separate function forks etc.

Interesting stuff!

[TrentNz]

Yeah I'm surprised at how Kawasaki done as well... but i guess KTM was (is?) more enduro/trail based, well that's how i see it, and their seems to be a lot of people in to that kind of stuff.

[scott411]

forza is not part of the motorcycle importers asscoation,

kawasaki off road range outside mx has shrunk massivly in the last few years, so it shows in these figures,

the road figures still dropping,

[IIIRII]

What defines an "off road" unit ?
Honda etc: sell a lot of farm only type stuff that other manufacturers dont make
So is the comparison / Enduro / Trail / MX bikes
Or everything they make and sell that is not road riden

[ktm84mxc]

There could be a point to exclude 4 wheelers from these figures and put them down as farm utility vehicles.
KTM's figures show having a broad model range helps keep market share. They also don't sell farm quads. Honda has always had the lions share of the farmers market in 4 wheelers.

[scott411]

quads are listed seperatly and are not included in the off road category, and the mule/rhino type vehicle are not listed in the quad figures or at all i think,

off road includes all other units, incl things like dr200 and tf125's, the industry does share the sub groups among itself, (MX, farm, enduro, kids etc,

[cave weta]

Here are the homo chariot sales figures

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[CRF119]

It doesn't surprise me at all to see the green machines so low. People buy Suzuki on price alone and what ever else they are giving away with the bikes at the same time. I suspect KMT will continue to climb and Yamaha to continue to fall because they lost Waikatio Yamaha which shows the market isn't that good.

Pretty clear when you go to rides you see mainly Red and orange these days. Red has always been up there.

[IIIRII]

If you really want to compare apples with apples ( ok bikes ) you need to remove all the specific farm orientated bikes, especially as long as there is such a huge incentive / tax relief for dairy farmers that buy a new farm bike every year....and as far as Im aware only 3 manufacturers make them ...
Or show what % of Jap "Off road" (presumably bikes that cant be road ridden or registered) are farm bikes ...

[motor_mayhem]

People buy Suzuki on price alone and what ever else they are giving away with the bikes at the same time.

More likely because they corner

http://www.racerxonline.com/2011/10/25/racer-x-tested-2012-450f-shootout - @ 2:42 "Turns well which has been a Suzuki characteristic for ever"

[Smiff-ta]

Are these figures based on bikes retailed? Normally these figures are based on info supplied via the franchises who count all units supplied to the dealer network.

With Roadbikes it is based on rego's so that more accurate.

[t595]

More likely because they corner

http://www.racerxonline.com/2011/10/25/racer-x-tested-2012-450f-shootout - @ 2:42 "Turns well which has been a Suzuki characteristic for ever"

Doesnt matter how good they corner if theyre parked up on the side of the track blown to pieces like both the shitboxes i had did:facepalm:

[Keithf]

I just dont understand why classy bikes like huskys don't sell as well as some of te other #$%^& boxes




Doesnt matter how good they corner if theyre parked up on the side of the track blown to pieces like both the shitboxes i had did:facepalm:

[Adriaan]

husky...putting the ass in class...:laugh:

[noobi]

They printed the Aussie bike sales in a recent ADB magazine, and the top 3 ENDURO bikes were. CRF50F, YZF450, CRF250. In that order.

:blink::facepalm:

[Keithf]

CRF50? are you sure?

this is a good reason not to buy a WR450 and not to maintin it

http://youtu.be/p4NNcTZMN94


They printed the Aussie bike sales in a recent ADB magazine, and the top 3 ENDURO bikes were. CRF50F, YZF450, CRF250. In that order.

:blink::facepalm:

[TrentNz]

gotta love those 50cc crf50f enduro bikes :killingme

[cheese]

gotta love those 50cc crf50f enduro bikes :killingme

The 88cc kits would make it pretty wild. :weird:

[TrentNz]

The 88cc kits would make it pretty wild. :weird:

actually, my mate had one of them, fuckn fun, probably as much grunt as my 125 pitbike just a bit slower :wings:

[scott411]

Are these figures based on bikes retailed? Normally these figures are based on info supplied via the franchises who count all units supplied to the dealer network.

With Roadbikes it is based on rego's so that more accurate.

They ate based on wholesale units for the off road figures