larger cylender capicty

In 1986 the category of motorbikes with a cylinder capacity up to 250 cc still accounted for 13.4% of the total Dutch fleet. At the beginning of this year this proportion had shrunk to 7.3%, whereas the share of bikes with a cylinder capacity of more than 1000 cc rose from 5.8% to 17.2% in the same period. In 1996 the number of heavy motorbikes was one in seven, now it is nearly one in six. More than three-quarters of motorcyclists ride a machine with a cylinder capacity of more than 500 cc. Nearly 190 thousand motorcycles – 43% of all machines in the Netherlands - have a capacity of between 500 and 750 cc.