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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 .
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 Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa is a sports motorcycle made by Suzuki since 1999. It immediately won acclaim as the world's fastest production motorcycle, with a top speed of 303 to 312 km/h (188 to 194 mph).
Norton Commando. During its decade-long production run from 1967 to 1977, the British company Norton-Villiers captured the imagination of the motorcycle-riding world with the now-classic Commando ...
List of fastest production motorcycles by acceleration; G. List of Grand Prix motorcycles; L. List of motorcycles of 1900 to 1909; List of motorcycles of the 1890s;
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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 ...
It's very hard to find any examples in the same category that aren't chronological and there's no special reason why motorcycles should be completely different from Production car speed record, List of fastest production cars by acceleration, Flight airspeed record, etc. --Dennis Bratland 18:34, 1 January 2021 (UTC)