WORLD SUPERBIKES is up for sale and the owners of MotoGP have placed a bid to buy it.Sources close to the current rights holders Infront Sports & Media estimate the sersies to be worth €1bn, while our sources say bids are closer to €600m

HARLEY-DAVIDSON'S sales have risen in the second quarter of 2011 – the first time they increased since way back in 2006.The US firm has become something of a marker for the state of the American economy; people don't buy expensive toys when times

BRITISH motorcycle manufacturer Triumph delivered record UK sales in 2009, despite a 10% drop in the UK’s large capacity motorcycle market.The iconic brand increased sales in its home market by 26 per cent in 2009, selling 7,450 new motorcycles

TRIUMPH sold the most bikes in the UK over 125cc in 2010.With 7,564 bikes registered in the final quarter of 2010, Triumph took the top slot, followed by Honda with 7,283, BMW with 6,704, Suzuki with 6,496 and Yamaha with 6,199.The overall

TROY BAYLISS' British Superbike championship-winning Ducati 996RS from 1999 is up for sale at 60,000 euros (approx £50,000).Bayliss, who spring-boarded on to the World Superbike stage after winning the BSB title in 1999, took the orange GSE Racing

SALES OF TOURING bikes dropped like a lead brick in October 2010, down a staggering 45.4 per cent on the same period in 2009.BMW's R1200RT topped the figures, recording a measly 39 sales last month; 160 machines were sold in the sector, compared

growth in 2010. Other countries did not perform as well. The stability of the Netherlands, thanks to good moped sales (+5%) and despite a 19% drop in motorcycle registrations, does not compensate the losses observed in the major markets:PTW sales for 2010

Yamaha's YZF-R125 was July's top-selling machineSALES OF motorbikes soared by 22 per cent last month, according to official figures.The number of new motorbikes registered in July was 14,306 – an increase of 2,578 over the same month last year

YZF-R125, with 161 registrations. The best-selling 'proper' supersports machine also went to Yamaha; the company's YZF-R1 notched up just 80 sales in October '09.Listed below are October 2009's best-selling machines by category:ADVENTURE SPORT BMW R

the Honda CBR600F with 186, Kawasaki ZZR1400 at 184, the NC700X from Honda at 183, Suzuki's 650 V-Strom selling 171, the R1200RT at 169 and the VFR1200 with 167.The first quarter of 2012 also saw some positive growth for motorcycle sales as new registrations