a highly desirable material that is hypothetical, scientifically impossible, extremely rare, costly, or fictional, or has some of these properties in combination.
“What type of cabling are we talking about, steel, composite, unobtainium?”
Titanium, aluminum, magnesium, carbon fiber, CNCmachined, billet, milled, ported, polished, electronic, programmable—pick a word and it’s fitting of any current factory race bike. Unobtanium is a common term thrown out when describing most parts of a true factory race bike, and for good reason. The next 14 pages are a curated look at what happens when a motorcycle manufacturer invests all available assets and collective knowledge into a race-ready machine. Forget “The Big Four” nomenclature of the past, it’s 2017 and all that have become “The Big Six” manufacturers leave no stone unturned on the following motorcycles.…