the sv650 4th most crashed bike.
 

we i surpose many of us added to this then :roll:

What's 1 2 & 3 then?

You's certainly do!!! Stop friggin crashing you lot. :x :P

T'is an ideal first big bike afterall. Where's the supprise that it's highly crashed by novices?

Does that mean the bike (by design) is dodgy, or the rider didn't know how to get out of the sticky stuff?

Polls like the one you must of got your info from kwak, always make me chuckle. No background information, just a vague answer.

give me 1 moment.

I bet there is a Gixxer something in that top 3 somewhere! :wink: :D

The list reaks of novices,newbies and direct access folks to me! Flame on ........... :D

we crash every type of bike on this site :oops:

And look at the locations on the list :lol:

it is pretty south'ish isnt it :roll:

Exactly no allowance for miles covered by these bikes - that would be far to much hard work for the good people at MCN.

They could as well have printed a sales chart :roll:

Interesting that women don't crash bikes.

(or don't ride them)

They male list is basically the same as the overall list, yet the No.1 Female crashed bike doesn't appear at all. edit : sorry it's 16th, but still.

Comes as no suprise that Maidstone is as high up in the list as it is with all the doppy cage drivers around here :lol:

Re: the sv650 4th most crashed bike.
 

Yeah but yeah but yeah but....

That's the 'S'. Shows how good we naked riders are lmfao!!

JohnH

Hummmm ... bearing in mind the SV is the 5th most crashed bike by blokes ... and the 6th most crashed bike by women ... there must be quite a few hermaphrodites, eunuchs, cat and dog riders out there to make it 4th overall!! :lol:

Oh yes ... as per usual this reeks of jurno/MCN BS!!! ;)

Oh and I live in the highest crash postcode outside London it would seem!! :roll: :lol:

I wonder how the ranking in those lists work? SV650S 4th overall. But fifth in the men's list and Sixth in the women's.

Those figures are useless without a breakdown of the reasons for crashing!! Rider error, collision, speed etc!!

i live in SW17...damn it lol...

Add mens and womens together for each bike?

It's interesting, but if the info is so accurate and meaningful, why present it in such a simple way with no explanation of what "most likely" means. Most crashes overall? Most per example on the road atm? Most per mile covered?

phew, dad got rid of his gixer6 just in time then accident imminent it seems!

Matt

Speefight 100, number 14! I'll be back on it then when I feel a bit uneasy some days...

Matt

Nah, doesn't neccesarily follow. There could be bikes ahead of it that are crashed by a lot of men and no women, and others that are crashed by a lot of women but not men.

If you look at the bikes in the ordering that still doesn't follow ...

Also lets face it, not only are female riders in a minority (what do you reckon, 5% of riders??) but I'd say they generally crash less too ... I could be wrong with my % reckoning (anyone know a true % female riders??), but I'd say that the female rider contribution to CRASH statistics is so minor that it'd struggle to sway/skew the results ... I reckon by sheer numbers alone woman probably account for no more than 5% of the total crashes!?!? ...

You expect me to actually read the thing I'm commenting on? Are you mad? :)

There's lies, damned lies and then statistics.

Also, there's a helluva lot of SV's on the road, so you'd expect them to figure well up the charts. I wonder what the ratio of bike model to prangs looks like across the range?

I dont think there's even much 'statistics' gone on there. No explanation 'hows its comed up' with.
But the GS600F crashes are probably mercy killings.

Triumph----Mid Essex----- :thumright: :thumright: :thumright:

I'm thinking insurance claims for the stats.

I may have crashed but I didn't claim. ;)

Quite.

Whichever way they are sourced, I find the top rung Vespa ET4 a surprise ... not that I am looking out for them, but I didn't even realise they existed ... I had to look a picture up ... ;) ... http://www.auction-air.com/auction_2...espa1_w400.jpg ...

I can see how Bandits and GIXERS could come high up as they span back a few years now and there are so many of them out there, but is there really that many Vespa ET4s sold to be able to compete with Bandits/GIXERS even if only 1% of them go down????? I'd like to see the sales figures of ET4s and take out shares in PIAGGIO ;)

Or is it just that every ET4 sold gets crashed?!!? might be the same bloke/burd that every time they get a new off the insurance they fall straight off it again?!!?!? :lol:

:smt005

9 times in 4 years!

How can the S model rank so high, while the Naked does on even make the top 15?
We N riders are not holding up our end, dammit.

I've had mine down, slow speed on a gravel road, not paying attention after recent road work :oops:

Not surprised about the number of scooters, though.

ET2's and ET4's are probably the most common 2 wheeled bike/scooter in London. I would guess that vast majority are also being ridden on car licences or CBT's.

i stand corrected that the crash list is not simply the same as the sales list - If we could get the relative numbers of bikes old and new registered on the road, that would be more valid.

I don't see the problem of understanding how when you have men making it the 5th most crashed bike and add all the women crashing it in their 6th place it jumps ahead of the R6 that presumably women don't ride (well they don't crash them anyway :D )


And there must be a lot of female riders if their top bike crashed makes 16th and it's not in the male list at all.

How comes my insurance went up by 50% when I moved from the SV to the ZX?

Theft... It also could be that the severity of accidents they're in is higher- maybe a load of SVs crash at 30, but I bet more Ninjas crash at 150 :)

Because if you were given a choice of stealing an SV650S or a ZX-6R.. which one would you nick? :lol: I'd personaly steal neither.. I owned one, and own the other... :lol:

That's where you might be mistaken ... if you look at theft figures you might find that the SV is more stolen!?!? It doesn't always follow that the more valuable or nicer looking the bike the more nickable it is ...

I think the highest stolen things are scooters ... not because they are cool, but coz the kids have them, break them and want them! And the security is usually less on them ... I'd rather have a ZX (or SV) than a scoot!! ;)

Yep, but SS600s and litres are almost always the most stolen bikes... Very high demand for the parts, etc. It makes sense, you can nick an SV, break it, and sell the unidentifiable bits for a grand, or do the same with a GSXR and get twice that, for the same effort.