The best and worst… rated by those who own them

From Monday we’ll be revealing which motorcycle brand YOU rate the highest (and lowest) for everything from reliability and build quality to comfort and handling. It could be exactly what you’re looking for to sway your next bike purchase… or to back up your point at the bar.

These aren’t our ratings, these are the ratings of people who have owned or currently own the bikes they’ve scored. They include important average running costs including servicing and insurance bills. It reveals the reality of motorcycling in Britain today.

We’re bringing together the average scores from more than 1200 owner reports submitted to this site through our BIKES section since we relaunched motorcyclenews.com last Spring.

So which make gives its owners the most to smile about? Which do they say is most likely to look shoddy fastest? Make sure you’re hear from Monday next week to find out.

To browse the owner reports for any particular bike, you need to go to our BIKES section and track down the bike you require using the options you’ll find on the right of the BIKES section’s front page.

When you arrive at the home page for the bike you’re interested in (and there are more than 240 of them in total) select ” Owners’ reports ” from the black navigation bar.

You’ll find an option to submit your own report at the bottom of each list of owners reports.

Anyone can browse the reports, but to submit one you do need to be a registered user of motorcyclenews.com. But since that is free and easy to do, that shouldn’t put you off. Simply click on LOG IN at the top, right of the page and fill in the online forms.

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