No one buys sports bikes - everyone rides sportsbikes

[Esceptico]

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/advice/best/motorbi...

I thought the above article was interesting. Even though new bike sales of sportsbikes have died and people buying new are going for naked and retro etc when you look at what people are insuring (and so presumably riding) it is overwhelmingly (600cc) sportsbikes.

[Birky_41]

I guess with traffic, speed cameras and the power of modern middleweight bikes the majority are happy with this

I'm completely guessing to be fair

I know having both a 1000 sports bike and naked definitely prefer the naked in road having done 6500 miles since March where as the sports bike I've done 1600 miles

[trickywoo]

It is more complex than this but I think cost to change and the use it’s put to are key factors.

If you only go for the odd summer blast, say 1,500 miles a year, stumping up £10k for performance you are never going to use doesn’t make much sense.

I think it shows that most people are sensible about their toys and not much goes wrong with a sparingly used super sport for a very long time.

[Donbot]

The list is from 'The Bike Insurer' so I doubt it properly represents the whole bike market.

Having said that, sports bikes used to sell by the boat load, so it's unsurprising there are still a lot of them about.