APRIL 2020 REGISTRATIONS
| Registrations by style | ||||||
| Year to Date | ||||||
| MOPEDS | Apr 2020 | Apr 2019 | Change | Apr 2020 | Apr 2019 | % Change |
| Moped Scooters | 92 | 524 | -82.4% | 980 | 1505 | -34.9% |
| Moped Others | 50 | 85 | -41.2% | 380 | 352 | 8.0% |
| TOTAL MOPEDS | 142 | 609 | -76.7% | 1360 | 1857 | -26.8% |
| MOTORCYCLES | ||||||
| Adventure Sport | 126 | 1890 | -93.3% | 4479 | 7299 | -38.6% |
| Custom | 91 | 726 | -87.5% | 1511 | 2411 | -37.3% |
| Naked | 430 | 3183 | -86.5% | 7771 | 11214 | -30.7% |
| Scooter | 517 | 1680 | -69.2% | 4994 | 6682 | -25.3% |
| Sport/Tour | 43 | 217 | -80.2% | 747 | 938 | -20.4% |
| Supersport | 133 | 761 | -82.5% | 2057 | 2921 | -29.6% |
| Touring | 7 | 191 | -96.3% | 469 | 851 | -44.9% |
| Trail/Enduro | 109 | 464 | -76.5% | 1824 | 2530 | -27.9% |
| Unspecified | 11 | 18 | -38.9% | 64 | 21 | 204.8% |
| TOTAL MOTORCYCLES | 1467 | 9130 | -83.9% | 23916 | 34867 | -31.4% |
| TRICYCLES | ||||||
| Scooter | 6 | 28 | -78.6% | 95 | 95 | 0.0% |
| Other | 8 | 53 | -84.9% | 80 | 132 | -39.4% |
| TOTAL TRICYCLES | 14 | 81 | -82.7% | 175 | 227 | -22.9% |
| TOTAL REGISTRATIONS | 1623 | 9820 | -83.5% | 25451 | 36951 | -31.1% |
| Registrations by capacity | ||||||
| Year to Date | ||||||
| ENGINE BAND | Apr 2020 | Apr 2019 | % Change | Apr 2020 | Apr 2019 | % Change |
| 0 – 50cc | 163 | 637 | -74.4% | 1540 | 1939 | -20.6% |
| 51 – 125cc | 775 | 2742 | -71.7% | 7565 | 10544 | -28.3% |
| 126 – 650cc | 315 | 2025 | -84.4% | 5474 | 8378 | -34.7% |
| 651 – 1000cc | 204 | 2460 | -91.7% | 5797 | 8248 | -29.7% |
| over 1000cc | 166 | 1956 | -91.5% | 5075 | 7842 | -35.3% |
| TOTAL REGISTRATIONS | 1623 | 9820 | -83.5% | 25451 | 36951 | -31.1% |
| Top ten brands Apr 2020 | ||
| 1 | Honda | 312 |
| 2 | Lexmoto | 177 |
| 3 | Yamaha | 173 |
| 4 | Kawasaki | 104 |
| 5 | KTM | 87 |
| 6 | Piaggio | 74 |
| 7 | Triumph | 69 |
| 8 | Suzuki | 42 |
| 9 | BMW | 40 |
| 10 | Sinnis | 32 |
RUINOUS REGISTRATIONS IN APRIL
UK
08/05/2020
With showrooms shuttered by government edict throughout April and most sales staff furloughed, a dramatic coronavirus-related collapse in registrations was inevitable. BDN financial editor Roger Willis surveys the worst month for UK dealers in living memory.
According to MCIA data, total numbers plunged by 83.5% to just 1623 units. Motorcycles were 87.2% down to 950. Scooters fell by 69.2% to 517. Mopeds lost 76.7% at 142 and trikes sank by 82.7%.
Motorcycle market leadership was owned by Lexmoto’s Chinese-made LXR125SY (pictured), which also dominated the Supersport style category with a 25.6% market share. But laurels for outright highest-registered machine belonged to the Yamaha NMax 125 scooter.
Large-capacity bikes took the brunt of decline, as 651-1000cc and over-1000cc engine bands dived respectively by 91.7% and 91.5%. Among normally higher-volume style slots, Adventure Sport took the most severe punishment, 93.3% down.
Top-ten chart positions were equally sobering. Honda maintained its traditional hegemony among leading brands but retreated in volume terms by 81.4%. Chinese flag carrier Lexmoto achieved the best performance as runner-up, though, posting a comparatively modest 68.4% fall. Yamaha in third was 83.9% in arrears. Kawasaki in fourth spot was slightly worse off, 85.2% lower. KTM completed the top five, losing 84.3%.
Piaggio led the also-rans in sixth, without any comparison available because it didn’t qualify for top-ten status in April last year. Triumph followed with a 90.7% loss. Eighth-placed Suzuki dropped by 87.3%. BMW Motorrad, relegated all the way down to ninth, took the hardest hit of the lot, its volume slashed by 95.1% to a mere 40 bikes plated. A second Chinese contender, Sinnis crept into tenth.
Ducati, which usually features in springtime charts, along with Harley-Davidson, failed to put in an appearance. So both of them registered fewer than 30 machines.
In the four increasingly disease-riddled months of 2020 to date, overall registrations were 31.1% down to 25,451. Motorcycles fell by 32.9% to 18,922, scooters by 25.3% to 4994 and mopeds by 26.8% to 1360.
NMDA COMMENT ON APRIL MOTORCYCLE REGISTRATIONS
UK
11/05/2020
Motorcycle registrations were down -83.5% for April due to the Covid-19 pandemic, only 1,623 machines were registered compared with April 2019 when 9,820 motorcycles went on the road. It is thought that many of these registrations were from online sales that are permittable during the current pandemic and many have been sold to ‘key workers’ as their safe independent option for travel to work.
All sectors of machine were negatively affected with ‘touring’ motorcycles worst effected -96.3% while even the least effected ‘scooters’ registered a loss of -69.2%. This point is further confirmed from the 1,623 machines registered, that 615 (38%) were scooters, disproportionately higher than normal.
As far as brand dominance and the preference for lower powered machines allowed Lexmoto to be in second position with 177 registrations, behind Honda who registered 312 new motorcycles.
With the ongoing ‘lockdown’ many motorcycle businesses are struggling to survive and many more our looking to having a digital presence to sell new and used bikes online.