Motorcycle manual longer than Pride and Prejudice

March 14, 2022 2 min read

One of the first things your owner’s manual says is to read the manual first bed ore ring.

But who does, especially when it is often longer than the turgid Jane Austen historical romance novel Pride and Prejudice at 364 pages.

New research from the UK’s Scrap Car Comparison has discovered that many motorcycle owner manuals require longer reading times than some of classic works of fiction.

The research, which took word counts from each manual and used the average English silent reading speed of 238 words per minute to reach the results, found that the Kawasaki Z1000SX was the motorcycle with the longest manual.

Kawasaki Z1000SX

If you actually read it (whether in the printed or online version), it will take you about 8 hours 12 minutes it which is more than two hours longer than reading Pride and Prejudice!

I don’t know about you, but I would rather be riding than reading.

BMW manuals make up three of the top five longest motorbike manuals, with all sitting consistently between 47,000 and 50,000 words.

Honda manuals analysed fall within the bottom half of our list, with three featured in the bottom four.

The Vmoto Super Soco CPX owner’s manual was the shortest manual of all vehicles analysed, taking just 12 minutes to read.

However, be aware that some Asian motorcycle manuals have stilted version of English that can sometimes not only be difficult to read, but quite humorous.

Here are the biggest motorcycle owner’s manuals:

Rank

Motorbike Make & Model

Manual Word Count

Average Time To Read

Kawasaki Z1000SX

117,155

8 hours 12 minutes

Royal Enfield Interceptor 650

56,392

3 hours 56 minutes

BMW R1250RT