UK MOTORCYCLE SALES buoyed last month, with several categories up in an otherwise depressed market.
Supersport sales, a category hit hardest by the ongoing economic downturn, posted an increase in sales for November 2011 - 19 per cent up on the same month for the previous year.
November 2010 UK sales figures by category (2009 in brackets)
ADVENTURE SPORT 431 (421) +2.4%
CUSTOM 453 (396) +14.4%
NAKED 949 (1,118) -15.1%
SCOOTER 1,174 (1,127) +4.2%
SPORT/TOUR 291 (316) -7.9%
SUPERSPORT 740 (618) 19.7%
TOURING 151 (164) -7.9%
TRAIL/ENDURO 472 (378) +24.9%
UNSPECIFIED 22 (31) -29.0%
