A motorcyclist got a tested time on the quarter-mile of just 9. One of the newest-released bikes on this is the Kawasaki Ninja H2, which tested a mph at just 2. The track-only version of the bike, called the Ninja H2R, produces a maximum of horsepower with ram air and is the fastest and most powerful production motorcycle on the market.
In , Jenan Sofuoglu, the five-time world champion Supersport circuit racer, made a top-speed attempt in a Ninja H2R. This attempt was endorsed by the Turkish president and was made over the Osman Gazi Bridge fourth-longest bridge in the world at a mile and a half long.
A dashcam videoed the attempt, but it was never confirmed by chroniclers or GPS or radar. The sports motorcycle has a 1, cc It was a model of the RX that hit mph in 2. The business fell into liquidation and receivership in with the remnants of the business being sold in January to Liquid Asset Partners LAP.
Right on up there with the other seven or so bikes that hit mph in just 2. Though BMW is known more for their luxury and sports cars and track cars , the SRR was produced in in order to compete in the Superbike World Championship.
After that, it went into commercial production. The SRR is powered by a cc inline-4 engine, redlining at 14, rpm. BMW made 1, of the bikes in order to satisfy the Superbike requirements. In , it expanded production of the road-friendly bike. The bike has an anti-locking brake system, as well as an optional electronic traction control system.
With The Ducati Panigale was a short-lived sportbike named after a small manufacturing town called "Borgo Panigale. It had a huge 1, cc displacement, which grew even bigger in the Panigale 1, ccs. At the time of its release, Ducati claimed that the Panigale was the most powerful two-cylinder engine production motorcycle in the world, with hp at 10, rpm.
The bike has a top speed of A model of the bike hit mph in just 2. The Ducati Diavel is a second-generation cruiser bike that took after the Indiana production from to The first, the model debuted at the EICA motorcycle show in Milan in , and the second generation , pictured here debuted at the Volkswagen Group Night in Geneva.
Ducati styled the Diavel in-house, led by design chief Pierre Terblanche. It did manage to get from in 2. The Yamaha YZF-R1 is an open-class sportbike, or superbike, that has been around in one form or another since In the 20 years that the Yamaha Motor Company has been making the bikes, it's gone through numerous body and specification changes and upgrades.
It was originally launched after creating a more compact Genesis engine, and it always stuck with a cc liquid-cooled engine. That same model tested mph in 2. The bike has had five wins in the Macau Grand Prix between to , making it one of the most successful sportbikes in racing history.
The last bike to make the 2. It sports the same cc liquid-cooled four-cylinder engine as the entry above Yamaha YZF-R1 and was introduced in by Honda as the seventh generation of the CBR series of motorcycles, which have been manufactured since This compact bike has a long racing history.
Various teams between and won the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race nine different times using a Fireblade. Cycle World also awarded it the International Bike of the Year from to A motorcycle, on the other hand, will fall and crash if its wheels start sliding in a corner. This is a huge advantage that cars have over motorcycles on a track that has many corners. Motorcycles also have an advantage over cars when accelerating. Because they are light-weight, they have less momentum at the same given speed so they need less power to bring them up to that speed.
This power to weight ratio is what makes motorcycles do much better in drag racing where they only need to travel in a straight line.
If we were to take the top speeds of every car in production today and compare it to every motorcycle in production today, we would have a huge amount of data. Instead, we will take the top speed of an average motorcycle and the fastest motorcycle and compare them to the top speed of an average car and the fastest car.
Most motorcycles would easily accelerate faster than the average car and even beat some of the exotic cars that are ten times their value in price. You can check and compare the times of just about any vehicle you are interested in on zeroto60times. Motorcycles generally much higher lap times. When comparing MotoGP motorcycle lap times to Formula 1 car lap times on the Circuit of the Americas, the difference is You can view the full list if you want to compare other riders and drivers.
Fast motorcycles are generally much cheaper than fast cars. So, it just makes sense to buy the cheaper one. In a way, the faster acceleration motorcycles are capable of creates a relatively false impression of how fast they are in reality.
The top speed is dependant on the resistive forces that the vehicle needs to overcome as it moves. Those are the aerodynamic drag, friction, and rolling resistance. The higher the speed, the more dominant becomes the aerodynamic drag or air resistance. The drag also tends to increase in force as the speed increases, which increases the power demand. Thus a more powerful, but not necessarily lighter, vehicle will have an advantage.
The average motorcycles are usually between 15 to horsepower. The higher-end track-only motorcycles can reach as much as hp. The Dodge Tomahawk is considered to be the fastest motorcycle build to date.
However, the motorcycle has never been tested to confirm those claims, which many experts consider to be either unplausible or simply physically impossible. When we compare the fastest motorcycles to the fastest cars, we can clearly see that cars are significantly faster when it comes to top speed. Motorcycles may be on par with them and even gain on them in the first few seconds as both vehicles accelerate.
Eventually, however, those cars will overtake them despite the bigger frame and heavier weight. At low speeds, the power-to-weight ratio is more important, and this is why the motorcycles will gain on most cars; however, as the speed increases, the power becomes more important. Cars simply can pack a lot more horsepower under their hoods, and this gives them an advantage in the later stages.
Cars are usually faster than motorcycles on the track. Although motorcycles accelerate and even stop faster than most cars, they do not stand a chance against faster cars on the track.
F1 cars, for example, have more powerful engines, better aerodynamics, lower center of gravity, and better traction and stability.
The video below is a good example of what happens when a motorcycle competes on the track with a car. However, when it comes to smaller straight sections where acceleration is dominant, we can see that the results can be very different. Now that you have all the pieces of the puzzle, you can see that motorcycles, compared to many other cars, are actually not that fast.
They do seem fast, but they are not really at the top of the food chain. I believe there are a few factors that play an important role and make motorcycles seem a lot faster than they actually are. First, there are a lot more motorcycles out there than there are sports cars and more powerful cars in general. A motorcycle does not cost anywhere as much as a very powerful car—thus, it is more affordable, and more people can buy one.
Motorcycles are also a lot quicker than cars. The fact that motorcycles accelerate a lot faster than cars creates a false impression in many people that motorcycles are really fast. Even dangerously fast. An interesting phenomenon is that you will feel like moving faster when riding a motorcycle compared to driving a car at the same speed.
And this is completely normal. While riding a motorcycle, you are exposed to all the elements.
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