Last year the British motorcycle industry showed not the best figures, especially in December. & The industry resisted global downward trends, but everything ended predictably. Sales in December 2017 were down by 51.3 percent compared to the 2016 year.

During 2017 sales were reportedly down by 18.5 percent (about 22,000 units). & The entire year saw declining sales, but starting in July, the drop-off showed 13 percent. The statistics doesn’t take mopeds / scooters into account. In December they saw a whopping 59.1-percent sales decline and a 11.6-percent decline over the course of the entire fiscal year.

Among the main reasons for the decline are strict Euro4 emissions regulations, as well as the distrust of the citizens of the country to the standards of the European Union, and also the fact, that the UK has begun the process of an EU exit.

August is usually a popular month. But it experienced a decline in motorcycles sales of almost 14 percent in contrast to 2016, and a drop of more than 25 percent in the month’s scooter sales. What concerns the sales in the “Other” category, Ebikes, powered mountain bikes, motorized two-wheelers that don’t necessitate a license, here we saw a 9.4 percent uptick.

Against a significant decline in the national market, Triumph sold a record number of motorcycles.