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There are around 200 million motorcycles in use worldwide, or about 33 motorcycles per 1000 people. Some of them are as fast as you can imagine. These fastest bikes in the world can accelerate at mind blowing speed. The world fastest motor cycles list includes Dodge Tomahawk, Suzuki Hayabusa, Ninja, Ducati etc. Here is the list of top 10 fastest bikes in world :


 1    Dodge Tomahawk
It is a Viper V-10 based motorcycle.Unlike other bikes it has four wheels and 500 horsepower engine. It forms a quadricycle and not motorcycle with two front and two back wheels.Only total ten same bikes were made all over the world and each of them was sold for a price upto $555,000.According to the specifications 0-60 mph times have been estimated at 1.75 seconds.
Features:
  • Engine: 10-cylinder 90-degree V-type
  • Top speed: 350 miles per hour (560 km/h)
  • Power: 500 horsepower (370 kW) @ 5600 rpm (45 kW/L)

 2   Suzuki Hayabusa 
It stands second in the list of fastest bikes.It’s name is directly translated from Pergerine Falcon – Japanese name.It points to the bird attributed of achieving speeds of over 200 m/h.It also refers to the predator of the Blackbird.GSX1300R was called the first generation of Hayabusa.It includes 1299 cc inline-4 liquid-cooled engine.
Features:

  • Engine: 1340 cc (82 cu in), 4-stroke, four-cylinder, liquid-cooled, DOHC, 16-valve
  • Top Speed: 248 miles per hour (397 km/h)
  • Power: 197 horsepower (147 kW) @ 6750 rpm 147kW

 3   MTT Turbine Superbike Y2K
It is the world’s second wheel driven motorcycle powered by a turbine engine, created by Ted McIntyreit.It’s top speed has been recorded as 227 m/ph. It has been recognized as the “Most powerful production motorcycle” by the Guinness World Records. 
Features:

  • Engine: 227 miles per hour (365 km/h)
  • Top Speed: Rolls-Royce 250-C20 turbo shaft
  • Power: 320 horsepower (239 kW) @ 52,000 rpm

 4   Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird
The title of the world’s fastest production motorcycle was ripped away by this bike from the legendary Kawasaki ZX-11.It was the founding bike in the hyper sport touring niche market.This market has expanded vastly.The Blackbird has an exceptional smoothness due to dual counter balancer shaft.Despite being much smoother than other bikes it was not sold in the U.S. 
Features:

  • Engine: 1137cc liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder
  • Top Speed: 190 miles per hour (310km/h)
  • Power: 114 kW (153 hp) @ 10,000 rpm

 5   Yamaha YZF R1

The redesigning of the Genesis engine to offset the crankshaft led to the amazing Yamaha’s YZF-R1.The true liter class (1,000 cc) was firstly introduced in this bike.When introduced, it took the class closer to a true racing motorcycle.The handling capabilities were increased to greater extend.
Features:

  • Engine: Forward Inclined Parallel 4-cylinder, 20 valves, DOHC, liquid-coole
  • Top Speed: 186miles per hour (297 km/h)
  • Power:128.2 horsepower (95.6 kW) at 10000 rpm

 6   MV Agusta F4 1000 R

The bike was release to the market in 2006. Brembo Monobloc radial brakes was installed into the bike as upgrade.
The bike has Sachs rear shock absorber helping the bike in compression & rebound damping adjustable in high and low speed range with forged black Brembo wheels.

Features:

  • Engine: liquid cooled, inline, 4 cylinder, DOHC, 16 radial valves
  • Top Speed: 185 mph or 299 kmph
  • Power: 174 horsepower (128 kW)

 7   Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R
It occupies 7th place in the top 10 fastest bikes.There was a huge difference in marketing of this bike in North America from Rest of the World as the ZX-11 Ninja in North America and the ZZ-R1100 in the rest of the world.It remained as the World’s Fastest Production Bike for a decade. 
Features:

  • Engine: 11,352 cc (82.5 cu in)  4-stroke, 4-cylinder, DOHC, liquid-cooled
  • Top Speed: 186 mph or 299 kmph
  • Power: 108 kW (147 PS) @ 10,500 rpm
8   Aprilia RSV 1000R Mille
For Aprilia, engine is built by the Austrian company Rotax.Aprilia RSV 04 from the Aprilia series  is also very famous. As the name suggests, Aprilia RSV 04 was built in 2004 itself. 
Features:

  • Engine: 998 cc 60 degree V-twin engine
  • Top Speed: 175 miles per hour (281 km/h)
  • Power: 105.24 kW (143.09 PS; 141.13 hp) @ 10000 rpm

 9   BMW K 1200 S
It gives a tough competition to Aprilia.On 25 September 2004, BMW globally launched the K 1200 S a radically redesigned , containing four-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine. So that is the 9th of top 10 fastest production bikes. 

Features:

  • Engine: 16 valves, 4 cylinders, DOHC, horizontal in-line, liquid cooled
  • Top Speed: 174 miles per hour (278 km/h)
  • Power: 164.94 horsepower (120.4 kW) @ 10250 RPM

 10   Ducati 1098s 

It is manufactured by Ducati and is 1099 cc L-twin sport bike. It was announced on November 8, 2006. It claims horsepower of 160, 90.4 ft-lb torque.It weighs about 173kg.Its specifications gives the highest torque-to-weight ratio of sport bike.In case of top speed it stands at a difference of 5 mph from BMW. This is last but not the least on  world fastest bikes list.

Features:

  • Engine: L-twin cylinder, 4 valves per cylinder Desmodromic, liquid cooled
  • Top Speed: 169 miles per hour (271 km/h)
  • Power: 119.3 kW (160.0 bhp) @ 9750 rpm
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