BMW UK motorcycle registrations up 15%

BMW Motorrad UK appear to have beaten the credit crunch for 2008!

UK motorcycle registrations fell by 5.3%*, but in 2008, BMW Motorrad UK achieved its highest ever number of registrations, increasing year on year sales by 15%, with a total of 5,850 bikes sold.

Combined sales of the R 1200 GS and its Adventure variant unofficially made it the UKs best-selling bike. Registrations totalled 2,411 units, up 21% over 2007.

BMW Motorrad increased its market share from 5% to 6% in 2008, to become the 6th best selling motorcycle manufacturer in the UK.

*Statistics supplied by The Motorcycle Industry Association Limited

Ride safe.

Jon Booth

Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk

Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com/

The 100,000th BMW R 1200 GS

BMW Motorrad has just celebrated the building of the 100,000th BMW R 1200 GS, making the BMW R 1200 GS the most successful BMW motorcycle of all time. Read what BMW Mottorrad UK have to say here.



www.inter-bike.co.uk had the pleasure of road testing the R 1200 GS for some 900 miles, read the road test here.

Ride safe!

Jon Booth
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Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com
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