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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
I really don't know one way or the other but I have yet to see any bike design that was doing anything to produce aero downforce, which is huge. It would be interesting to compare times of bikes vs. cars of some different series at the same track, like Daytona.
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Top Gear did a Porsche (Carrera 4S IIRC) vs. a Bike (YZR?) on one of their episodes. The bike was *much* faster at accelerating on all of the straights, but even with the Porsche being really careful to keep its distance from the bike in the corners, it won easily by out-handling the bike.