Clearly sales / popularity have no influence, out of the finalist the only real seller (or mover) will be the AT.
In some ways, no. If it were on sales, a Sym scooter would win. It's based purely on riding impressions of the journalists.
What do these Thruxtons cost?
R174,000. That's not bad as an R Nine T is R175,000.
lot of old guys/hipsters on the judging panel? 
A pic of all the hipsters 
no one under 40 
Aha, 2Stroke Donovan is under 40.
Maybe he could enlighten us a bit about how the voting was done. 
Sjoe, some typing ahead...
Judges were asked to test each bike based on the usual criteria - looks, engine, chassis, build quality, value, wow factor, etc - but not comparing them to other bikes on the trip, but other bikes in their class. So the judges needed to ride each bike and pretend that their competition was also present, and judge it according to that. This is why experienced journalists are used, partially because their combined coverage will receive more than 7 million views which is excellent for the whole industry, but also because they are the only ones who could do that.
We rode from Red Star (no track riding) to Sabie (swapping bikes three times along the way), slept at Böhm's, spent the next riding mostly on the 22 and then rode back the next day.
The judges had three days to think things through before they submitted their votes independently to the organisers. They each nominated their top six in descending order which were then allocated points according to the old Formula 1 system and a winner was calculated.
The Africa Twin scored the most 1st place votes (six) whereas the Thruxton only scored four, but the Thruxton made the top three in every single one of the votes.
The fact that the AF got second is excellent because that class is hugely competitive.
The Thruxton R got universal praise. This has never happened at a BOTY.
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