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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.
The fastest production motorcycle for a given year is the unmodified motorcycle with the highest tested top speed that was manufactured in series and available for purchase by the general public. Modified or specially produced motorcycles are a different class, motorcycle land-speed record .
Bajaj launched a carbureted version of Pulsar 220 in June 2009, tagging it as "the fastest bike in India". [25] It also discontinued the production of Pulsar 200 in July 2009. Bajaj also introduced a new Light Sports version of Pulsar named as Pulsar 135LS. It is the first bike in India to contain 4-valve DTS-i technology.
An exception was a response to the problem of the aluminum rear subframe on 1999 and 2000 models breaking when the bike may have been overloaded with a passenger and luggage, and/or stressed by an aftermarket exhaust modification, so 2001 and later Hayabusas had a steel instead of aluminum rear subframe, adding 10 lb (4.5 kg) to the 1999 and ...
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I checked the Cycle Magazine source attached to it, which does indeed have 10.95 listed as the time but also has 2.4 seconds listed as the 0-60mph time. They cite the bike appropriately as only havine ~80bhp, which would make it an extreme outlier as most other 10-second bikes seem to have almost twice the power, at least.
The first generally recognized motorcycle speed records were set unofficially by Glenn Curtiss, using aircraft engines of his own manufacture, first in 1903, when he achieved 64 mph (103 km/h) at Yonkers, New York using a V-twin, and then on January 24, 1907, on Ormond Beach, Florida, when he achieved 136.27 mph (219.31 km/h) using a V8 housed in a spindly tube chassis with direct shaft drive ...
On 26 January 2025, Autocar India and Ultraviolette Automotive broke the record for the Fastest Speed Achieved by an Indian Motorcycle (EV) using the Ultraviolette F99. The F99 set a record-breaking top speed of 258 kmph at the National Automotive Test Tracks (NATRAX) and the spectacle was verified and recognized by the India Book of Records ...