Recently-released 2025 Road traffic figures from the DVLA show that the number of miles travelled by motorcycles in Great Britain rose slightly compared to the previous year, breaking through the 3 billion mile mark for the first time in at least a decade. That totalled to a 13.1% increase since 2019 – the last pre-Covid year, but motorcycles still make up only around 1% of all traffic, with cars accounting for 77%, vans 17% and lorries 5%.
The data also shows that bikers have a strong preference for back-roads riding, with just 6% of all motorcycle traffic being completed on the motorway network (compared to 19% of car mileage) and more than 1.6 billion miles being ridden on minor (B or unclassified) roads.