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"You don't need to ride a sport bike like you’re on a track on the street. They're very tractable, they're good bikes to ride on the street, but the full performance is really appropriate for closed circuit kinds of opportunities," Parsons said.

The differences between bikes like a Harley, a cruiser, and the Ninja, or sport bike, really do vary.

"The cruisers are traditionally a sitting up strait style with their feet out in front of them, which is where their controls are. The café style, or crotch rocket or sport bike, however you want to determine it. It is a much more of a leaning forward design. The handle bars are a little bit lower. The controls are at their feet, which are traditionally just behind their hips. And the breaking capacity for those is significantly better than those of a cruiser. The handling for them is different. The acceleration is different," Titus explains.

No kidding. But when exactly do you get to open up full throttle? It's either buy some time at the speedway or risk zipping by highway police at 180...

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