Germany’s motorcycle market has been a crapshoot in 2022. Some months it’s up, some months it’s down, but it isn’t exactly gaining ground. In the first nine months of 2022, the country only slightly lags behind its 2021 totals by 0.3 percent. As colder weather approaches, motorcycle sales also cooled down, shrinking by 5.9 percent. During that period, German riders purchased 929 fewer units than in September, 2021.
Despite the recent downtrend, the nation’s top-selling models included both stalwarts and surprises. So, what do they say about the state of the German motorcycle market? Are customers buying with their hearts or heads? Will adventure-tourers, naked bikes, or cruisers reign supreme? We can extrapolate a few answers from Germany's 20 best-selling models in September, 2022. Let’s take a look.
