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This is a list of street legal production motorcycles ranked by acceleration from a standing start, limited to 0 to 60 mph times of under 3.5 seconds, and 1 ⁄ 4-mile times of under 12 seconds. Concept, custom, modified, and one-off motorcycles of any kind are not listed, nor are racing-only motorcycles. The widely varying testing ...
For example, in 1956, the Vincent Black Shadow remained the fastest motorcycle to date, with a 125 mph (201 km/h) top speed, but it was no longer in production. The fastest model on the market in 1956 was the BSA Gold Star Clubman , which at 110 mph (180 km/h) was not a record holder, but is listed for the sake of illustrating a more complete ...
If you are actually involved in street racing 72, 73 and for six years afterward it would not be trivial. The H-2 broke 12 in 1972. No other factory production motorcycle did that again until 1978. You try to denigrate everything I say. I turned a phrase that one or two people might have used you say. No Dennis, it was common usage among Street ...
[3] [4] It could accelerate along the 1 / 4 mile test course in 12.4 seconds. [5] When the H1 was first announced, Motorcycle Mechanics criticised Kawasaki for their "own ambitious claim" that it was "the fastest and best accelerating road machine ever produced, being capable of 124 mph and 12.4 sec. for the standing start quarter mile ...
Motorcyclist recorded Rickey Gadson's quarter mile time of 9.64 seconds at 149.83 mph from a bone-stock bike, on a 50-degree morning, at an altitude of 2100 feet. [12] Cycle World recorded a quarter-mile time of a record 9.47-seconds (corrected) at 152.83 mph, and also hit 60 mph in just 2.6 sec. [ 13 ]
Among the motorcycle manufacturers experiencing a hayday in growth in North American markets — Can-Am On-Road — makes motorcycles that ride on three wheels instead of two. One of the fastest ...
The Kawasaki GPZ900R (also known as the ZX900A or Ninja 900) is a motorcycle that was manufactured by Kawasaki from 1984 to 2003. It is the earliest member of the Ninja family of sport bikes . The 1984 GPZ900R (or ZX900A-1) was a revolutionary design [ 1 ] [ 3 ] that became the immediate predecessor of the modern-day sport bike. [ 5 ]
Performance was on a par with the GPz1100, at around 11.2 seconds at 125 mph (201 km/h) for the quarter mile and 148 mph (238 km/h) flat out. One magazine even branded it the fastest bike they had ever tested, and Kawasaki ran some ads claiming it to be "The World's Fastest Production Turbo Charged Bike". [2] Jay "PeeWee" Gleason also recorded ...