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Amidst the lockdowns of 2020, the Powersports industry experienced a lift in motorcycle sales – and, if you recall at the time, we chalked a great deal of those sales to ‘recreational fun’ and the need to save on travel/transportation fees.

… it turns out we missed one of the biggest niches of our good market: The demand for two-wheeled express delivery.*

Take the following figures, for example: According to MCN, Dr Tracey Worth pled to last week’s Motorcycle Industry Association conference on the opportunities to be had with “supplying clean vehicles for ‘last mile deliveries’.”*

It starts with pulling up the amount of express deliveries logged in the UK as of pre-lockdown years:

2019: 25 billion express deliveries completed

2020: 40 billion*express deliveries completed*

2021: 52.7 billion*express deliveries completed

A view of a Harley-Davidson Pan America. Media sourced from Harley-Davidson.“You can see where this is going… [see] the opportunity,” articulates Dr. Wroth in the report. “In 2022, the figures are not exact (as we are only just in 2023), [but] there were 60 billion [deliveries]. These are numbers that are so huge, even for the express delivery service, that it is hard to fully understand how we are going to deliver them.”

For Tracey, a Londoner, the demand for these express delivery bikes is now so high that “her sector can’t deliver” in the UK’s low-emission zones; gas-powered limitation means future shipments of Amazon parcels, onions and McD’s nuggies will likely require a zero-emission scoot that prioritizes capacity weight… preferably about 100lbs of it, says Dr. Worth.*

A view of a series of bike taxis. Media sourced from Wikipedia.“Covid moved our sector forward by five years…in the first three-months of Covid we met our five-year targets,” Worth finishes.*

“We had growth capacity, but now we are exceeding that growth capacity, and we need support[/100-litres capacity straight away] to actually make it happen.”

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*Media sourced from The Korea Herald, Wikipedia, and Harley-Davidson*

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