New research from Bike Trader, the online used bike website, shows overall searches for second-hand Triumph’s increased by 24 per cent in the first six months of 2013, compared with the same period last year. Between January and June, 270,000 unique visitors made a total of 1.5 million searches for used Triumphs.
Honda’s CBR models remain the most searched for bikes, well ahead of the Yamaha YZF and Suzuki GSX-R. Honda and Suzuki bikes continue to dominate the top ten list of searches, with four and three bikes respectively. During the six-month period, Bike Trader’s website attracted a total of 31.8 million searches, 28 per cent of them via a mobile device.
Commenting on the steep rise in Triumph searches, Dan Tye, the editor of Bike Trader, said: “Triumph is making exactly the kind of bikes people want to buy. Triumph might not have made it into our top ten, but an increase of 33,000 unique visitors over six months shows a rapidly growing appetite for them.”
Top three Triumph searches were for the Daytona, Tiger and Bonneville. Bottom three were the Rocket, America and Trophy.