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and it's making me sick. Today we're gonna talk about
some of the fastest motorcycles that for some reason, any 16 year old kid can just go out and buy. I'm joined by my esteemed
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search on the right note. - We all know that bikes today are fast, but they've been fast for
like a hundred years, okay. In 1924, the fastest production motorcycle was a British bike called
the Bruff spelt Brough. The Brough Superior SS 100. Now at the time they
called it the Rolls Royce of motorcycles because it
costs a whopping 170 quid. This blindly hauled made
around 50 Hertz purse and put down at top speed
of 110 miles per hour. Do you know what hospitals
were like in 1924? It was mostly saws and yet
people were somehow totally okay with going that fast. Fast forward to 1949, i.e the future back then
penicillin was finally invented. And so was the Vincent Black Lightning, Great frickin name, possibly
the best name on this list, but you're gonna see a lot
of cool names on this list. So I don't know, it's only the second one. The Black Lightning had
a twin push-rod engine, they cranked out 70 ponies and
because it was super light, it could hit 150 miles per hour
instead of land speed record at Bonneville and to reduce drag, this is how the guy did it, that's right. It's laying down perpendicular
riding, but you know, what's even crazier. It would take another 35 years
for another bike to touch that sideways speed record. That means we're not even
gonna mention the BSA Rocket 3 Ducati 900 SS, or even the Laverda Jota. The first motorcycle to
threaten the Black Lightning's record was the 1984 Honda VF 1000R. My math teacher in high school, had one of these and he
tried to sell it to me. And in hindsight, I think
that was wildly inappropriate. This bike was the showcase
of all of Honda's race winning technology at the time
and had a 16 valve V4 engine, whiny straight cut gears in a 80s fairing. A fairing is a motorcycles brassiere and a brassiere is a
lady's top underpants. All at all, it made 122 horsepower. That is a lot for a vehicle
smaller than a horse, but unlike the Black Lightning,
the VF 1000R was heavy. It weighed over 600 pounds or two nolans and that's before you
even put a dude on it, that's the third nolan. So it maxed out at 150 miles per hour tied the record, still stands, but not for long because Kawasaki
thought that a 35 year old British hog shouldn't be
faster than a modern Japanese sports bike. Enter (whooshing sound) The Ninja. The GPZ 900R A.K.A The Ninja 900 debuted the
same year as the VF 1000R, but it blew it out of fricking
water with a 908 CC inline for the put down 115 Hertz purz no, that's not quite as many
Hertz purz as the Honda had, but the Ninja didn't weigh 600 pounds. Number one rule 'bout being a ninja don't weigh 600 pounds, unless you're Beverly
Hills Ninja or Panda Ninja. Everything about this crotch
rocket was revolutionary. Also a little Mr. Thomas Cruise
drove one in a little movie called "Top Gun" not the airplanes. So how fast did the Ninja go? I don't know, maybe 158 miles per hour. We're only talking about
four motorcycles so far guys. There's a bunch more! Stay tuned, but that record wouldn't last long, The Ninja kicked off a good
old fashioned speed war and things were about to get nuclear. (fire exploding) Just two years later, Suzuki came along and
dropped the GSXR 1100, I'm talking, The GSXR, baby. This bike is notoriously
uncomfortable to ride because Suzuki sacrificed
all of the comfy stuff in order to make it
faster, lighter, and easier to rip through the canyons. It also had Suzuki advanced cooling system or SACS for short, it made
more power than The Ninja. It was also a hundred
pounds lighter allowing it to hit a top speed of 160 miles per hour. But just one year later, Honda stepped back into the
arena with the CBR 1000 F A.K.A, The Hurricane. This big, bad hog of a heftor was heavier than the Ninja and the GSXR, had more comfortable
upright riding position, and it had a reputation for
being bland in comparison, but it still managed to
rip its way to the top of the leaderboard, the top
speed of 164 miles per hour. They always want to talk
about you when you're on top. Ask me, I know. Now I think we can all agree
that that is legitimately fast as heck but sport bikes
were starting to get attention from a little place that I'd
like to call the fricking Government. The motorcycle safety act of
1987 claim that these street bikes were the moral
equivalent of selling drugs the adolescence. Feds were trying to shut
the speed part down, but the Gods of Speed had other plans And this bill failed and
thus bikes got faster. The 1988 Kawasaki TomCat ZX-10, 165 miles per hour. 1989 Yamaha FCR 1000 EXUP, a 172 miles per hour. 1990 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11, 176 miles per hour. And that's where the record
stood for another six years. Remember how it took 35 years
to beat that old speed record bike manufacturers in the
'80s with absolutely bonkers. But the '90s, the '90s were about to
get even more bonkers with the introduction of
the Honda CBR 1100 XX, better known as the Super Black Bird. They called it the
Blackbird after the Sr-71, the world's fastest plane at the time. Do you think that planes
need to chill out? Let me know in the comments. Now this bike made 162 horsepower, but it's still weighed
less than 500 pounds. It had a reputation for getting
hot and making the rider uncomfortable, but nobody ever said
going fast was a cakewalk. And also I like how the being
hot is the uncomfortable part about going a million miles an
hour on a fricking 500 pound bike, between the fighter jet aerodynamics and the insane power to rate ratio, The Black Bird hit a top
speed of 178 miles per hour. That's really fast. But its about to get smoked, cause 178 miles per hour
apparently is for babies according to Suzuki. So they released the most
iconic, fast bike of all time, I'm talking about the Hayabusa. Do you know what a Hayabusa is? It's Japanese for Peregrine, Falcon, A bird that eats blackbirds and the 'Busa did just that. The 1300 CC engine made 175 horsepower. It only weighed 475 pounds. Bridgestone had to make special
tires because it went too fast for regular tires. I don't wanna know how
they found that out. How fast did it go? How fast? Well, I'll tell you how fast, 194 completely unnecessary miles per hour. Now that stock, people tune
them to go even faster. People fricking turbo charge these things, [Groaning] WHO! YOURE NUTS!! but the 'Busa was the last
bike to hit speeds like that for a while. Thanks to a little thing
called a gentleman's agreement. Just like how Japanese car
makers didn't produce cars with more than 276 horsepower
in the '80s and '90s, basically a bunch of company
guys got together and decided to limit the top speeds of
their motorcycles in the 2000's. Nobody knows exactly why
this agreement happened, but there was a lot of fear
that the government would try and crack down on sport bikes, like they tried to do in 1987. They decided that 300 kilometers per hour or 186.4 miles per hour
should be the limit because anything more than
that would be too dangerous. 187 that's way too fast, slow down 186.4, now that's sensible. So when the 2000 Hayabusa came out, it went 8 miles per hour,
slower than the 1999 model. Same deal with the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R, even though it was rumored to go over 200 miles per hour before the
agreement happened, 186.4. So just like that. The great speed war came to an end and there's nothing left to talk about. JK! It didn't! You see, this agreement
was between gentlemen but the biker life ain't
about being gentle. Ridin' hogs is about breakin' rules! 2007 was the year when
rules would be broken. Firstly, Wild Hogs came
out. It's my favorite movie. I seen it 58 times. Secondly, the Italian motorcycle
manufacturer, MV Agusta, released the F4 R 312. Up until this point, Italian companies didn't really
care about outright speed. Up until this point, Italian companies had always
been more focused on hand and track performance, but the F4 R despite being
an absolute track weapon also happened to be extremely fast, so fast that they named
it after its top speed of 312 kilometers per hour. What is that in English? 194 miles per hour. Realistically, the speed
limited Japanese bikes could smoke the F4, but on paper, it was the fastest production
motorcycle in the world and MV Agusta wasn't the
only company to break this gentleman's agreement. Couple of years later,
a little Italian firm going by name Ducati released
a little bitty old bike called the Panigale R. It was a homologated race
bike with over 200 horsepower. And it only weighed 364
pounds with the race exhaust that came with the bike. It can hit a top speed
of 202 miles per hour. That's right, boys and
girls we are in the 200's. Sorry gentlemen, there's
a new king on the list. Looks like speed is back on the menu. We're done ordering
appetizers, double entrees, and a pancake for the table. For our next course, I'd
like to introduce you to the first electric
motorcycle on this list. The lightning LS 218. I should also mention that
this is the first American company on this list. This freedom machine has a
200 Hertz per electric motor that can zip zap zoop, all
the way to 218 miles per hour. And again, I'd like to remind you, you don't need a special
permit to buy or operate a motorcycle like this. You can just go online and order one. No questions asked. The same motorcycle license, that lets you buy a Honda Grom, will allow you to ride this
electric thing with wheels 218 miles per hour. Is 218 miles per hour even that fast? You're telling me that since 1949, we've only gained 68 miles per hour. That's like one mile per hour
away from being hilarious. Well guess what you freaking sickos, if speed is what you
want then here you go. I have a few bikes they're even faster. I hope you're happy because
these next couple of bikes are perverted! In 2015,& Kawasaki released the Ninja H2 compared to the Ninja
from the 20th century, this thing is lighter,
stiffer, more comfortable And it has a fricking supercharge
of a top speed, 186.4. Yes, that's right. The gentleman's agreement
still stands with most of the Japanese manufacturers
even to this day. So why am I even mentioning this bike? Well, because Kawasaki made
one with an R at the end of it. And R as we all know, stands for Race. It makes 310 horsepower, more than a Moto GP bike. Kawasaki makes owners swear that they'll only drive it on the track, even though it's street
legal and there's absolutely no warranty available for it. However Kawasaki will
sell you this motorcycle that hits a maximum velocity. You guys ready? 249 miles per hour on a bicycle. That's number two, we got another one left and it's way faster. Remember how the first bike on
this list was the Rolls Royce of motorcycles. Well this final bike literally
has a Rolls Royce engine, but not from a car from
fricking worldly birds. It's got Rolls-Royce
helicopter engine in it guys. Allow me to introduce the MTT 420RR, A street legal turbine engine motorcycle. Alright, turbine engines
aren't really used in cars or motorcycles
for pretty good reasons. They're very impractical, but you know what else is impractical? A 420 horsepower jet bike that costs a quarter of a million
dollars and runs on kerosene. How fast is it? I don't even want to tell
you because it makes me more. It makes me absolutely sick, but unfortunately I have no choice if I don't finish the episode. I am in breach of contract with Max and he'll sue the pants
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