http://www.vitalmx.com/%2Fforums%2FMoto-Related%2C20%2FBike-Sales-Per-Stroke-Cut-and-Pasted-from-another-thread-in-another-Country-Far-Far-away%2C1212455"A good friend of mine and obsessive computer geek who's currently doing an MA in 'Internet Trend and Development Research' in the US has been working on a programme that can analyse and monitor activity on pretty much any website and can break down any amount of data for any research purposes (advertising/webpage hits etc). He's been doing some testing on it so I asked if it would be able to do a breakdown on ebay of MX bike successful sales in the UK.
So, he went much further than that and came up with the following stats (all UK based)
73% of MX bike advertisements are 4 stroke
24% of MX bike advertisements are 2 stroke
3% are unknown (not sure what that means)
Out of those sales in total 59% are successful on Ebay which is below average (successful computer console sales for example are 93%). The break down of that figure is more interesting though.
97% of 2 stroke sales are successful and only 31% of 4 stroke sales are successful.
84% of 2 strokes sell beyond their sellers reserve price and only 17% of the 4 stroke sales do the same.
It all looks pretty bad for 4 stroke sales but it's even worse if you look at the fact that those successful sales figures were almost a complete reversal in 2008 in favour of 4 strokes and in just 2 years 4 strokes simply do not sell. further the volume of 4 strokes being advertised on ebay has increased more than 50% in 24 months where as the advertising of 2 strokes has decreased by 69% in the same time.
I found it quite interesting and it seems to point to a trend in 2 stroke Vs 4 Stroke in the UK. "JB65 VitalMX
Very very interesting indeed...more evidence for our two stroke case!