When you think of the world's quickest motorcycles, you're likely to think of traditionally powered machines. Stuff powered by ground-up dinosaurs and long-decomposed plant life, extracted from the soils, refined at massive plants, and sent to your local gas station or refined again and made into the jungle juice that is race gas.
You'll think of MotoGP bikes, Suzuki's dominant drag motorcycles that somewhat resemble the Hayabusa, or even some of the land-speed motorcycles that cross the Salt Flats just over the mountains from my house. They are, after all, the essence of speed in the modern era.
But the real king of speed, the almighty hammer of acceleration, doesn't use gasoline. It doesn't even use pistons. Instead, this force of nature, uses something far older than gasoline, something that powered massive ships, locomotives, and even a few cars back when the predominant mode of transportation was the horse.
