Fastest Production Motorcycles by Tested Top Speed
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Fastest Production Motorcycles by Tested Top SpeedThe unrestricted 1999 Suzuki Hayabusa sits at the top with a tested top speed of about 194 mph, a figure that alarmed regulators and directly triggered a voluntary agreement among manufacturers to cap production bikes at roughly 186 mph. That cap explains the striking clustering seen lower down: the Kawasaki ZX-14 and ZX-12R both sit exactly at 186 mph, the agreed ceiling. The BMW S 1000 RR and MV Agusta F4 R 312, at around 193 mph, show how a handful of models have pushed close to or past that limit. Older icons such as Honda's CBR1100XX Super Blackbird (180 mph) and the Kawasaki ZX-11 (176 mph) illustrate the rapid escalation of production-bike speed through the 1990s, before the gentlemen's agreement froze the headline numbers in place.
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- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Tested Top Speed (mph)
- Last updated
- 11 July 2026
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- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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