Top Fuel Bike
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Top Fuel Motorcycles are the fastest accelerating 2 wheeled vehicles on the planet, and will out accelerate any other vehicle (except top fuel cars) including Formula 1 cars, Thrust SSC and even F14 Jet Fighters.
The engines they use produce more than 1000 horsepower, which is approximately 25% more than a Formula 1 car and they reach 60mph in 0.7 seconds. Top speed is around 230mph and this is reached in 6.5 seconds.
These machines cost in excess of $80,000 to build.
They run on Nitromethane and use a four cylinder, fuel injected, supercharged engine, which consumes 15 gallons of the explosive fuel every mile.
They run sophisticated clutches with multiple stages of pressure controlled by electronic, hydraulic and pneumatic control systems. They have a gearbox with two ratios. Gearchanges are made by pushing a handlebar mounted button.
