Being in a car can be fun, especially if the car can go faster than greased lightning! Being on a motorcycle, however, offers the kind of otherworldly pleasure and excitement that we mortals can seldom get used to!
There are lots of reasons to buy a bike. For one, they have very sleek lines and can be very beautiful. They are also relatively cheap and offer the kind of performance any high-end Ferrari supercar would be hard-pressed to beat. We went to work and put together a list of 10 motorcycles that can make almost any supercar cry for mercy!
10 Kawasaki Ninja H2R
The Kawasaki Ninja H2R is the track-only variant of the supercharged demon that is the Kawasaki Ninja H2. The H2R is one of the most extreme things on two wheels and putting it through its paces on the track is mightily fear-inducing!
This bike is capable of speeds of up to 250 mph and can run rings around most Ferraris. Very potent and an outrageous contraption in every way, the H2R gives riders all the power they need to go as fast as is humanly possible.
9 Suzuki Hayabusa
The Suzuki Hayabusa has had possibly the greatest influence on superbike history. The Hayabusa is quite possibly the most commonly modified and the most easily modifiable bike out there. Currently, there are lots of ways to mod it, and perhaps more waiting to be discovered!
The Hayabusa has power in abundance no matter the gear setting, can be used for a nearly limitless variety of purposes and is nigh-on indestructible. For sure, if speed and cheap thrills were all that mattered, we would rather have a garage full of these Blackbird killers than one full of Ferraris!
8 Yamaha YZF-R1
There are legendary bikes and then there’s the Yamaha YZF-R1! This liter bike is the premier magic carpet any soul could aspire to possess and has everything the rider can crave, from good looks to extreme power and acceleration!
The beauty that is the YZF-R1 develops 200 hp and has a top speed of 182 mph. For sure, it can make any Ferrari owner ashamed of their supercar, and owning it is a must for those that love to go fast very regularly indeed!
7 Dodge Tomahawk
The Dodge Tomahawk is not street legal and looks like it dropped off an alien spaceship! Only 9 were ever made, and it has easily the most radical design of all the bikes on this list. Power comes from an 8.3-liter V-10 that's good for 500 horses, with the top speed being a very hypothetical 400 mph.
The Tomahawk was mainly meant to be admired, not ridden, and was successful at shaking up the motorcycling sector and making us all rethink what a bike should look like and what it should be capable of.
6 Aprilia RSV 1000 R
If there ever was a bike built to be fun and to go fast, it is the Aprilia RSV 1000R! It has a top speed of around 175 mph, and is a small bike with a big heart! This bike has been around since 2007 and has one of the sweetest exhaust notes in the business.
The V-twin engine on this bike develops 143 horsepower and acceleration is crisp and effortless! Get on board this crotch rocket, and you can fulfill your dreams of flying without wings!
5 Honda CBR1100XX
Honda manufactured the CBR 1100XX from 1996 to 2007 and tasked it with snatching the crown of the fastest motorcycle from the Ninja ZX-11, which it did with a will! Built for insane speeds, the CBR 1100XX Super Blackbird proved able to exceed 178 mph in a straight line.
This could well be the perfect bike for speed addicts who want to go so fast they leave their own shadow behind! Get on the Honda CBR 1100XX, and you can momentarily become the fastest man in the world!
4 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R
A bike like the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R makes the impossible possible! It is one of the most extreme bikes on this list and riding it requires some restraint. This is not the kind of bike to play around on, because all it needs to go very fast is just a twitch of the throttle!
This superbike has a monster engine that cranks out over 207 horsepower and maxes out at 186 mph. To be sure, taming it is not the kind of task those faint of heart should embark upon!
3 MV Agusta F4 1000R
MV Augusta, just like Ducati, tends to make some of the prettiest bikes around that can be ridden hard for quite a while! The MV Augusta F4 1000R is the biggest and the best bike from the stables of this Italian firm and is priced accordingly.
There are 175 horses on tap here, with top speed being pegged at a frightful 186 mph. Better be careful when you get on this bike because it can take you to the kind of places you didn’t sign up for!
2 BMW S1000RR
The BMW S1000RR is easily one of the fastest accelerating bikes out there and among the most powerful. When introduced it reportedly shook up the literbike scene in ways too shocking to comprehend!
This is BMW’s premier offering for those whose love for speed and adventure is incurable, and it sure stands out with its shark gill styling and readiness to break records. You can go as fast as 188 mph on this crotch rocket, which is fast enough to make it seem like you are flying!
1 MTT Y2K Turbine Superbike
If there ever was a totally extreme bike, it was the MTT Y2K. Rather than a conventional engine, this beast made use of a helicopter turbine engine. As to be expected, it could go so fast that time appears to have little meaning.
The top speed is pegged at 227 mph, but there’s reason to believe this homing missile on two wheels could go faster than that! Unconventional, scary, beautiful, and awe-inspiring, the MTT Y2K has almost every Ferrari beat in the speed and acceleration department.