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The term 'superbike' is not a new one – it was first applied to cover a genre of bikes more than thirty years ago.  But the superbike of today is a very different beast from the machines of the late 1960s which has began the trend for lightweight, powerful, exciting sports bikes.  Modern machines such as Yamaha's YZF-R1, Honda's CBR900RR FireBlade or Suzuki's GSX-R1000 combine extremely powerful engines, producing over 110kW (150bhp), with advance chassis technologies and incredibily low weight.

But before we examine these modern automotive masterpieces, it is worth taking a look at where they came from.  Motorcycling began around the end of the nineteenth century, with various pioneering inventors marrying the then-new internal combustion engine with bicyle chassis, which has been around many years.  Gottlieb Daimler is usually credited with producing the first powered motorcycle in 1885, with a single-cylinder four-stroke engine.

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