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A Suzuki GSX-R1000 at a drag strip – a 2006 model once recorded a 0 to 60 mph time of 2.35 seconds. 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.
In their test of a 1971 Norton Dunstall 810, Cycle World measured the top speed at 201 km/h (125 mph), with a 0 to 60 mph time of 4.7 seconds and a standing 0 to 1 ⁄ 4 mile (0.00 to 0.40 km) time of 11.9 seconds at 173.62 km/h (107.88 mph). [1] This was the first bike ever in Cycle World ' s tests with quarter mile time under 12 seconds. [1]
The time it takes a vehicle to accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h or 27 m/s), often said as just "zero to sixty" or "nought to sixty", is a commonly used performance measure for automotive acceleration in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the rest of the world, 0 to 100 km/h (0 to 62.1 mph) is used.
This 1962 Ford Seattle is among 100 concept car images that Ford Motor Co. just added to its online archive site. Images are now available to the public for free downloading.
The MTT Y2K Turbine Motorcycle, also known as the Y2K Turbine Superbike, is an American motorcycle powered by a turboshaft engine, made by Marine Turbine Technologies since 2000. The bikes are not mass-produced in continuous series; each unique bike is hand made to order after receiving the buyer's specifications. [ 1 ]
'Rollout' is the distance travelled by a vehicle before the timing lights on a drag strip are triggered. … can affect the final run time by up to 0.3 of a second. … important to discount this first foot of movement from the final run time, to ensure that the run time captured by the GPS data logger is as close as possible to the official ...
The motorcycle industry is shifting to electric. Harley-Davidson signaled the trend this year, becoming the first big gas manufacturer to release a street-legal e-motorcycle in the U.S., the LiveWire.
1992 Kawasaki ZX-11 C Model. The ZZ-R1100 or ZX-11 is a sport bike in Kawasaki's Ninja series made from 1989 to 2001, as the successor to the 1988–1990 Tomcat ZX-10.With a top speed of 272–283 km/h (169–176 mph), it was the fastest production motorcycle from its introduction until 1996, surpassed by the 270–290 km/h (170–180 mph) Honda CBR1100XX.