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Enter a registration and you will see every mileage reading ever logged against that bike, in date order, with anything odd flagged.
It is free and there is no account. What follows is where those numbers come from, and the three things they cannot tell you.
Where the readings come from
Every MOT test records the odometer reading, and that record is kept. It is the only independently timestamped mileage trail that exists for a UK bike, which makes it the thing to check a seller's story against.
The tester writes down what the clock says on the day. Nobody verifies it against anything, so the record is not proof of true mileage. What it is, is a series of dated readings that should climb. When they do not, something needs explaining.
The three blind spots
This is the part most mileage checkers leave out, and on a bike it matters more than on a car.
Nothing before the first MOT. Bikes need no test until three years old, so a two-year-old machine has no mileage record at all. Not a low one. None. On a nearly new bike the official trail simply does not exist yet, and you are back to reading the machine itself.
Nothing between tests. The record captures one reading a year at most. A bike that did 12,000 miles in a summer and 200 the following year shows up as two dots on a line, and the shape between them is invented by whoever is looking at it.
Gaps where the bike was off the road. A SORN winter, a rebuild, a season in a garage: all of these produce a flat or missing stretch that looks like a freeze and is nothing of the sort. On a bike this is normal rather than suspicious, which is precisely why car-derived tools read bike records badly.
What the analysis flags
Drops. A reading lower than the one before it. Occasionally a typing error at the test centre, which does happen and can be corrected. More often the clock went backwards, and that needs an answer before anything else.
Freezes. A reading that barely moves across two or three tests while the bike was taxed and evidently in use. Sometimes a stored bike, sometimes a disconnected sensor, sometimes neither.
Implausible jumps. A leap that does not fit the machine or the pattern around it. Sometimes a very big year. Sometimes a digit typed wrong. Sometimes a replacement clock fitted with a different starting figure.
None of these is proof of anything on its own. All three are questions worth asking, and a seller with a straight answer usually has one ready.
What counts as normal on a bike
Bikes cover far fewer miles than cars, and buyers coming from cars consistently read bike mileages wrong.
For scale: the Department for Transport's National Travel Survey put the average at around 4,800 miles a year per motorcyclist in England, though that figure is from 2016 and counts the rider rather than the machine. Plenty of riders own more than one bike, so the figure per bike sits lower again.
Which means a 15-year-old machine showing 20,000 miles is unremarkable, where the same figure on a car of that age would be striking. A commuter scooter will do more. A summer sports bike will do considerably less. What matters is whether the pattern fits the bike and the story you are being told, rather than whether the total is high or low.
The clock can be wrong. The wear cannot. Grips, pegs, discs, sprockets and seat all age at a rate that no amount of clock work changes, which is why the physical check matters at least as much as the record. Our guide on how to spot a clocked motorbike covers what real wear looks like at different mileages.
When the numbers do not add up
Ask the seller directly, quote the reading and the date, and see what comes back. A recorded drop with an innocent explanation usually has paperwork behind it: a corrected test certificate, an invoice for a replacement clock, a note from the garage.
What you should not do is decide it is probably nothing. Selling a bike on a false mileage without disclosing it is fraud, and the reason people do it is that it works.
If the explanation is thin, the mileage question is rarely the only one worth asking. A full history check adds finance, theft and write-off records against the same registration.
FAQs
How do I check a motorbike's mileage history?
Enter the registration in the box on this page. You will get every reading recorded at every MOT, in date order, with drops and freezes flagged. It is free and needs no account.
Is the MOT mileage record proof of true mileage?
No. It records what the odometer showed on the day of each test, and nobody verifies that against anything. It is a dated trail rather than proof, and its value is in showing whether the readings make sense together.
Why does my bike have no mileage history?
Most likely it is under three years old and has never been tested. Bikes need no MOT until their third year, so there is no record to show yet.
Is low mileage suspicious on a motorbike?
Not usually. Bikes cover far fewer miles than cars, and a machine used in summer only can sit at a few hundred miles a year quite honestly. Judge the pattern against the bike and the seller's account rather than the total.
The mileage dropped between two tests. What does that mean?
It needs an explanation before you go further. Sometimes it is a keying error at the test centre, which can be corrected and evidenced. Sometimes the clock was wound back or replaced. Ask the seller, quote the dates, and expect paperwork.