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If you’ve been following motorcycle news over the past year, you’d be forgiven for feeling confused. One headline says bike sales are collapsing, another claims the market is “stabilising,” while others hint at a rebound just around the corner. So what’s really going on with new motorcycle registrations in the UK across 2024 and 2025 — and what does it mean for riders, dealers, and manufacturers heading into 2026?

If you ride a motorcycle in the UK in 2026 and don’t worry about potholes, you’re either blessed with monk-like calm or you’ve not been out much lately. For many riders, potholes have quietly become one of the biggest everyday risks on British roads – not high speed, not traffic, but the simple unpredictability of road surfaces that are deteriorating faster than they’re being repaired.

For British motorcycle travellers Lindsay and Craig Foreman, that optimism has collided head-on with one of the harshest realities of overland travel: geopolitics doesn’t care how good your intentions are, how polite you are at borders, or how carefully you packed your puncture kit.

When news broke that CCM Motorcycles had entered administration, it landed with a heavy thud across the British motorcycling world. Not because CCM was a volume giant or a global powerhouse

The Harley-Davidson XLCR is often lazily filed under failures. Low sales. Dealer confusion. Poor timing. Case closed. Except it isn’t. That verdict may be technically accurate, but it misses the point entirely. The XLCR didn’t fail because it was bad. It failed because it arrived too early, spoke the wrong language, and dared to ask Harley-Davidson customers a question they weren’t ready to answer.