Fast. Faster. Fastest. It’s a term synonymous with any type of motorcycle, but even truer for sports bikes, which are getting faster every year.

Sports Bikes vs Motorcycle

Sports bike is a term used for a motorcycle that is optimized for speed, acceleration, braking, and cornering on paved roads. They are often less comfortable and less fuel economic to other traditional motorcycles. They are also a little harder to maintain and more difficult to work on due to fitted bodywork.

"Soichiro Honda wrote in the owner's manual of the 1959 Honda CB92 Benly Super Sport that, 'Primarily, essentials of the motorcycle consists in the speed and the thrill,' while Cycle World's Kevin Cameron says that, 'A sport bike is a motorcycle whose enjoyment consists mainly from its ability to perform on all types of paved highway – its cornering ability, its handling, its thrilling acceleration and braking power, even (dare I say it?) its speed.'¹"

Speed Classification

Power, weight, aerodynamics, gearing. These factors will intermingle to determine the maximum speed of a sports bike.

There are three categories for classing a sports bike: lightweight, middleweight, and superbike. It is not universal, but they are commonly used. These category classifications are used to group similar engine displacement, horsepower, and intended use. Most of the bikes on this list are easily classified as super bikes.

List of the Fastest

Without further ado, here are the 10 Fastest Motorcycle Sports Bikes of 2020.

10. 2020 BMW S1000RR

Max Speed: 192mph

9. 2020 Suzuki Hayabusa GSX-1300R

Max Speed: 193.86mph

8. 2020 Ducati Streetfighter V4 S

Max Speed: 195mph+

7. 2020 Aprilia RSV4 1100 Factory

Max Speed: 198.8mph

6. 2020 Ducati Panigale V4 R

Max Speed: 198.8mph

5. 2020 Kawasaki Z H2

Max Speed: 200mph+

4. 2020 Ducati Superleggera V4

Max Speed: 200mph+

3. 2020 Kawasaki Ninja H2

Max Speed: 209mph+

2. 2020 Lightning LS-218

Max Speed: 218.63mph

1. 2020 Kawasaki NINJA H2R

Max Speed: 248.5mph

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References:

¹ Cameron, Kevin (1998), Sportbike Performance Handbook, Saint Paul, Minnesota: Motorbooks Workshop/MBI, p. 5, ISBN 0-7603-0229-4