Range Riders

Range RidersA few years ago, we got to ride a Superbike racing machine around a track in California. It was $15,000 worth of high-tech parts and about 800 man-hours' worth of labor. The result was an "idea" of a motorcycle. Pure speed. Thought-control handling. We wondered, knowing that such a bike was possible, how long it would take for some company to offer all that technology to the consumer. We have the answer now. Japan and Italy have uncrated street-legal production racers for t...