Drag races are awesome, and we all love watching our favorite motorcycles go head-to-head in a battle for straight-line supremacy. However, a lot of the drag races we talk about tend to focus on high-power superbikes, as well as heavily modified machines churning out insane amounts of power. That being said, Bike World has released a new video highlighting the straight-line performance of some of the most popular middleweight naked bikes.
Now, for those of you who didn’t know, I’m a huge fan of the middleweight naked bike segment, and I’ve owned quite a lot of them over the course of my riding career. Currently, I have two sitting in my garage, a Yamaha MT-07 and a Triumph Street Triple RS. Naturally, Bike World’s newest test instantly caught my attention as it featured five of the most popular middleweight naked bikes currently available on the market: the Kawasaki Z650, Yamaha MT-07, Suzuki GSX-8S, KTM 790 Duke, and Aprilia Tuono 660.
