Here we cover custom-built drag racing motorcycles. Drag bikes exist for a single, primal purpose: to devour the quarter mile. Take a motorcycle, strip it of every gram that doesn’t make it faster, then stuff it with so much power it tries to tear itself apart.
These machines trace their roots back to custom builders who pushed street bikes way beyond their limits. Tinkers, who experimented with nitrous, stretched swingarms and frames that barely contained their overpowered engines.
Today’s drag race bikes are technical masterpieces – purpose-built missiles that launch riders toward the horizon at incredible speeds.
The best builders obsess over weight distribution down to the gram, craft aerodynamic bodywork cheating the wind and squeezing ungodly amounts of power from engines that seem too small to contain such fury.
From grassroots racers campaigning modified street bikes to professional teams running seven-second quarter miles, drag racing strips motorcycles down to their essence: raw acceleration, pure speed and the eternal quest to be quicker than the bike in the next lane. Each pass down the strip writes another chapter in a story that started with riders who looked at their motorcycles and thought: “This could go faster.”
