This is well over 80 horsepower at the crank–about 14 up from the Harley-Davidson Forty-Eight and 8 up from Yamaha’s own middleweight, the YZF-R7. How is the massive bump achieved, you ask?

Harley Davidson is touring the country with a stop in San Jose this week to gauge interest in a prototype electric bike called LiveWire, which is designed to look like a tank and sound like a jet.