…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…

…aggressive off the corners. This feeling is not exactly supported by the 0-60 and 0-100 times, which reveal the R1 a mere 0.08-second behind the fastest bike at 100 mph and 0.15-second down at the end of the quarter mile. These numbers place the R1 in the lower half of the field, but its 135mph trap speed…

…. Check out the quarter-mile results for proof that the new set-up makes this a much better streetbike. Without frying the clutch in the process, it gets a best-of-the-test drive through the eighth-mile mark, just under seven seconds and carries that through to the best elapsed time of the test. A nifty…

…took to sink the R6 in Drivetrain rankings. Riders deemed the Yamaha slipper clutch quite effective, however, finding it a real bonus on the street. Performance testing exposes the slim margins of difference in this competitive class. The Yamaha ran an impressive 10.9 quarter-mile, but bested only the…

…stretch of road notorious for its challenging terrain. Known for its track performance, how does the R6 stack up in our street comparison. Find out in our 2011 Yamaha R6 Street Comparison Video . A two-time defending champion, would the Kawasaki ZX-6R measure up in isolated street testing. See for your self…

" Yamaha YZF-R6 MSRP: $10,090 Horsepower: 100.00 hp @ 14,100 rpm Torque: 40.77 lbs.-ft @ 10,850rpm Weight: 409.1 lbs w/fuel, 383.8 lbs w/o fuel Superpole Time: 1:20.34 (Atlas) ¼ Mile: 11.25 @ 134.11 mph Top Speed: 164.49 mph Overall Ranking: 4th-place Razor-sharp. Knife-edged. Precise. All words commonly…

…,000 rpm. The torque graph is proof positive that the R6 suffers from a top-end biased powerplant. But don't be mislead into thinking it doesn't get with the program because, as the quarter-mile times on the previous page show, it hauls ass. ""The R6 lacks bottom-end but is awesome up top,"" says Hutch…

…ZX and GSX-R whip on the other 600s. When it comes time to putting power to the ground, the most often referenced test is a run through the quarter-mile. You may have noticed E.T.s slightly off the pace of our 2003 runs. Though we correct the times to standard temperature and barometric pressure to keep…

…racetrack exploitation: Day 1 at the uber-faster Willow Springs and Day 2 at the tight and technical Streets of Willow. Add extensive street mileage, quarter-mile and top speed performance testing at Honda's top secret HPCC center in the Mojave Desert, plus the always imperative dyno and weight numbers, allowing…

" We fitted our Supersports with Dunlop's sticky new D208GP-JLB tires. They held up through a track day and a couple quarter-mile runs, and remained predictable the entire time. Time Waits For No Bike When it comes down to speaking of how a bike performs on a racetrack, the real crucible is the stopwatch…