Your experiences reveal the bikes to rely on

Breakdowns are becoming fewer and further between with each new generation of bikes but a few faults do still happen. Which bike makers do you trust most to get reliability right?

Close to 1200 owners have rated their bikes for Owner Reports in our BIKES section. On Tuesday we told you how high owners rated their engines. On Wednesday we revealed the average scores for Build Quality (see links, right, for results).

Today it’s the turn of reliability. These scores are an average of those given in our Owner Reports across each manufacturer.

Yamaha tops the tree with 97 per cent on average. Honda runs them close with 96 per cent.

Suzuki and Kawasaki share third place with 95 per cent while Triumph takes fifth place with 93 per cent.

Ducati fills sixth spot with an average reliability rating of 91 per cent and BMW is down in seventh with 90 per cent scored.

But even our lowest placed manufacturer, Aprilia, manages 89 per cent, so on the whole it seems we’re pretty pleased.

The difference between scores may be small but, in a survey of this size, just a one per cent gap can be significant. Some manufacturers have not been included because the size of their sample was not large enough to be meaningful.

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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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