…down the quarter mile (below).At the drag strip there are multiple times gathered in the quarter-mile. The delay in a rider?s response to the green light is dubbed the reaction time. (There always is a built-in fractionally small delay or else the rider is given a red-light.) A 60-foot time is also registered…

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…name proud and demolishes the ZX with its stupendous 60-foot time, a massive 32% quicker. By the eighth-mile mark, the big Kaw's greater peak horsepower is pulling back time on the Harley, but it's not enough to beat it through the quarter despite going through the traps 9 mph faster.?????????????????????Kawasaki…

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…status on the street. Nothing else could hope to hang with it at the strip, as it was the first production bike capable of running a 9-second quarter-mile. The Hayabusa has been a staple for dealers, as sales have steadily increased year after year, beating the sales number of the previous season since…

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…flexes some muscle on the '09 V-Rod Muscle.The void between me and the far hill at the end of Infineon's drag strip was black and measureless, the quarter-mile strip sticky with high-grade NHRA rubber left over from the day before. I did my best to channel the spirits of Screamin' Eagle/Vance & Hines riders…

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…from the crowd erupted as motorcyclists tested their reaction times and their motorcycle?s peak power at the Teresi/Easyriders Dyno Drags. I caught a battle between father and son as they squared off to see who was king of the quarter-mile. Their Harley-Davidson motorcycles were first lifted onto the…

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…like a full-on sportbike. Use all that Revolution power and the Harley will lay down quarter-mile times in the 11.3-second range at 115 mph. It'll take another second or so later until the Warrior cuts the timing lights in the mid-12s. The Yamaha's advantage in torque can't make up for its 35-hp deficiency…

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…riders. And while this may sound easy enough to achieve, it's not. It is, however, extremely important. This is why Star has spent a great deal of time and money developing the all-new V-Star 950. According to recent market research, in the United States cruisers find their way into the hands of the…

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…to that of the ground-based rubber shod-type, then even a million dollar-plus Bugatti Veyron supercar might fall short in a drag race under a quarter-mile. The VMax is that fast! But there's much more to this machine than outright acceleration. We expected it to haul-ass as soon as we set our eyes…

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…-performance components like sportbike brakes and inverted forks. Together with increasingly larger displacements and a subsequent increase in power, quarter-mile times have dropped and top speeds have been raised. In the process, manufacturers have created yet another sub-genre called the performance cruiser…

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…-Fours, like our guest tester Heidi Mattison, riding the V-Twin Suzuki for the first time was a new version of reality. "Having zero experience on a Twin of any kind, I redlined the bike a half a dozen times my first time out," said the CBR600F4i racer. "I became very disappointed with the power above nine…

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