What makes one make cost more to insure than another?

If you’re looking to keep the cost of your insurance down it seems some makes find more favour with insurers than others, according to the experience of close to 1200 users of this site.

The figures we’re revealing today are an average paid by owners of particular brands for fully comp insurance. They are the insurance costs submitted by users of this site when they fill in an Owners Report. See below for how to fill in a report of your own.

On Monday we told you how high owners rated their engines. On Tuesday we revealed the average scores for Build Quality. Yesterday it was the turn of reliability. (See links right).

Tomorrow we’ll complete the figures with average servicing costs, your ratings for comfort, brakes and grin factor and your overall scores.

Today we’re looking at the average you fork out for your fully comp insurance cover. They are an average across all contributors for each marque.

The cheapest, on average were BMWs at £317. Triumph comes second at £356 and Yamaha is third at £410.

Fourth spot goes to Honda with £437, Suzukis cost an average of £461 and Kawasakis and Aprilias set you back £471. The most expensive was, perhaps unsurprisingly, for Ducati, at £510.

Is it just down to BMW owners being lower risk all round than Ducati fans? Or is it that you get more power from Dukes than Beemers? Why does Yamaha come out cheaper than Suzuki? Tell us what you think. HAVE YOUR SAY BY FOLLOWING THE LINK, RIGHT

To browse the owner reports for any particular bike, you need to go to our BIKES section and track down the bike you require using the options you’ll find on the right of the BIKES section’s front page.

When you arrive at the home page for the bike you’re interested in (and there are more than 240 of them in total) select ” Owners’ reports ” from the black navigation bar.

You’ll find an option to submit your own report at the bottom of each list of owners reports.

Anyone can browse the reports, but to submit one you do need to be a registered user of motorcyclenews.com. But since that is free and easy to do, that shouldn’t put you off. Simply click on LOG IN at the top, right of the page and fill in the online forms.

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