BIKERELIABILITY Reg check
Registration-year report · 2005–2025

Data as of: DVSA MOT results to 2025

Victory Kingpin: MOT pass rate by registration year

Which Kingpin years pass first time, and which fall short of the model's 88.3% average, from 892 DVSA tests.

2010
highest-passing year · 96.7%
2008
lowest-passing year · 83.7%
13.0pp
spread across 7 years

Pass rate by registration year

first-time pass rate · cohorts with 50 or more tests · registration year from first use date

Highest pass rate: 2010 (96.7% of 122 tests). Lowest: 2008 (83.7% of 166). Years more than two points below the model average: 2005, 2008, 2009.

81%90%99%2004: 87.9% pass (124 tests)2005: 83.9% pass (118 tests)2006: 91.9% pass (62 tests)2008: 83.7% pass (166 tests)2009: 85.4% pass (158 tests)2010: 96.7% pass (122 tests)2011: 94.8% pass (58 tests)200420082011
RegisteredTestsFirst-time passvs model (88.3%)
2004 124 87.9% -0.4 pp
2005 118 83.9% -4.4 pp
2006 62 91.9% +3.6 pp
2008 166 83.7% -4.6 pp
2009 158 85.4% -2.9 pp
2010 122 96.7% +8.4 pp
2011 58 94.8% +6.5 pp

Older cohorts are survivors: the worst examples have already left the road, which tends to lift the earliest years. A first-time MOT pass is a roadworthiness check, not a full mechanical inspection.

Pass rate over time

first-time pass rate by test year · 2011–2025
70%85%100%2011: 84.2% pass (38 tests)2012: 75.4% pass (57 tests)2013: 89.4% pass (66 tests)2014: 86.2% pass (65 tests)2015: 92.8% pass (69 tests)2016: 94.4% pass (72 tests)2017: 94.0% pass (67 tests)2018: 85.7% pass (49 tests)2019: 85.4% pass (48 tests)2020: 93.5% pass (46 tests)2021: 87.7% pass (57 tests)2022: 83.1% pass (59 tests)2023: 87.0% pass (54 tests)2024: 93.2% pass (44 tests)2025: 95.2% pass (42 tests)20112025

Questions

Which Kingpin years have the lowest MOT pass rate?
2005, 2008, 2009 registered examples pass first time less often than the Victory Kingpin overall (88.3%); the 2008 cohort is lowest at 83.7% from 166 tests.
Which Kingpin year has the highest MOT pass rate?
2010, at 96.7% of 122 first tests (2005–2025). Years more than two points above the model average: 2006, 2010, 2011.
How much does the Kingpin pass rate vary by year?
13.0 percentage points between the highest (2010, 96.7%) and lowest (2008, 83.7%) cohorts with at least 50 tests. Older cohorts are survivors: the worst examples have already left the road, which tends to lift the earliest years.

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