Most manufacturers when releasing a naked version of their top sports bike tend to detune the engine to reduce top speed. In the right hands it will hit 60 mph in under 3 seconds and assuming you can hang on, has a top speed of 180 mph. The bike only weighs in at 178kg, the power to weight ratio is therefore something to be marvelled at. The Ducati Streetfighter V4 S is an unrivaled beast, stripped of the Panigale fairings and wearing high, wide handlebars, but packing all the punch of the 1100cc Desmosedici Stradale engine.Ģ08 horsepower is produced and 123 Nm of torque at 9,500rpm. The beast that is the Streetfighter V4 – Image via Ducati 5 Absolute Bonkers Hyper Naked Bikes Ducati Streetfighter V4 S Let’s have a look at some of the best naked bikes currently available. They are better suited to all sorts of riding as a result, longer trips, commuting, city-riding, touring, and well if you wanted to take it to the track, it would probably hold up there too. Naked bikes offer an alternative to sportsbikes, with similar power and performance, but with an aggressive upright sitting position and a different approach to how riders can utilize them. The MT-10 is a fantastic naked bike packed with torque in the low and mid-range and is a complete monster throughout the rev range, making wheelies the done thing instead of chasing the top speed as the R1 is designed for. Unlike sportsbikes, which despite being road legal are often tuned to unleash the most power possible and access the top speed from the engine.įor example, take a motorcycle like the Yamaha R1 which is an awesome racing weapon with no question, and compare it with the Yamaha MT-10, the R1’s naked sibling. Naked bikes are often cheaper than their fully faired sportsbike siblings, which is most definitely part of their appeal.Īlongside that, part of their appeal is that they are usually tuned to be best used on the streets and for riding in a range of conditions.
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Today naked bikes are in full force going from strength to strength, with most manufacturers now offering both a fully-faired and naked version of both the heavy and middleweight bikes, some even producing lightweight small capacity naked bikes too for novice riders. By detuning the engine a little to give them better lower and mid-range torque, which would theoretically make them better road bikes than their sporty counterparts. After that the gloves were off and all manufacturers scrambled to create their own version.įactories made some mechanical changes to their naked bikes too. It was the Italians that led the charge of the factory naked bike with the release of the 1993 Ducati Monster closely followed by the original 1994 Triumph Speed Triple. It wasn’t long before manufacturers started to produce factory naked bikes, which were essentially a naked version of their leading sportsbike model. They were nothing more than sportsbikes with the bodywork being stripped off and a pair of cheap handlebars replacing the sporty clip ons to promote a more upright riding position which were more suitable for around town riding.Ī set of lights would be added if the original bike was a straight up racer and the bike would be legal to take on the streets. These DIY jobs were dubbed Streetfighters. Naked bikes almost came about by accident, as a result of European riders crashing their sportbikes and not having either the money to spend or the inclination to get them back up to showroom spec.Īs a result, sportbikes, stripped of their fairings, grew in popularity first arising in the 80’s and continued into the 1990’s.
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