The Best Motorcycles in GTA Online, Ranked by Speed

The best motorcycles in GTA Online split into two camps: bikes built for raw top speed and bikes built for fast lap times. The fastest bike in GTA Online by straight-line speed is the Western Reever, but the quickest pick around a race track is the Nagasaki Shotaro. This guide ranks the best bike for every job using top-speed and lap-time data tested by Broughy1322, the community standard for vehicle performance.

The Fastest Bike in GTA Online by Top Speed

When you only care about top speed on a long straight, one motorcycle sits well clear of the pack.

• Western Reever: tested top speed of 163.00 mph (262.32 km/h), the fastest bike in the game. It costs $1,900,000 from Legendary Motorsport.
• Western Deathbike (Arena): roughly 150.00 mph (241.40 km/h), the next-fastest non-HSW bike.
• Pegassi Bati 801: around 135.00 mph (217.26 km/h) in straight-line testing, remarkable for a $15,000 bike.

The Reever beats the second-place Deathbike by about 13 mph, a huge gap for a single motorcycle. If your only metric is how fast a bike goes flat-out, the Reever is the answer. Older speed kings like the Hakuchou, the Bati, and the Shinobi all top out in the mid-120s to low-130s mph range once fully upgraded, so they trail the Reever by a wide margin on a long enough straight. Remember that these figures come from a long open road where each bike can actually reach its ceiling, which is rarely the case in a busy Los Santos street.

The Best Racing Bike in GTA Online by Lap Time

Top speed does not win races on its own. Cornering and acceleration matter more on most tracks, which is why the lap-time rankings look different.

Based on Broughy1322's laps of the Cutting Coroners GP track, the quickest motorcycles are:

• Nagasaki Shotaro: about 00:57.5, the best lap time of any bike.
• Shitzu Hakuchou Drag: about 00:57.6, a fraction behind.
• Pegassi Bati 801: about 00:58.6, the value champion of racing.
• Nagasaki Shinobi: roughly 00:58.6 as well, very close to the Bati.

The Shotaro is the meta racing pick when bikes are allowed, though it is a pricey buy at $2,225,000 from Legendary Motorsport and unlocks only after you complete a round of the Deadline adversary mode. The Hakuchou Drag is the strongest all-rounder: near-Shotaro lap pace plus far better straight-line speed.

The Best Budget Motorcycle in GTA Online

Not every rider wants to spend nearly two million dollars on a bike. The Pegassi Bati 801 remains the best budget motorcycle in GTA Online and one of the best value vehicles in the entire game.

• Price: $15,000 from Southern San Andreas Super Autos.
• Strong top speed near 135.00 mph and a competitive sub-59-second lap.
• Available to brand-new players with almost no grinding required.

For early-game racing or a daily rider that punches far above its price, the Bati 801 is hard to beat. The near-identical Bati 801RR, which differs mainly in its livery, performs the same and costs the same $15,000.

The Best Getaway Bike in GTA Online

For free-roam escapes from cops or rival players, you want quick acceleration, a high top speed, and the ability to filter through traffic.

• The Western Reever is the obvious getaway king thanks to its class-leading top speed: outrun almost anything once you hit open road.
• The Shitzu Hakuchou Drag blends strong acceleration with a high top speed, and its slim profile slips between cars cleanly.
• The Nagasaki Shotaro accelerates and corners fast enough to shake pursuers in tight city streets, where flat-out speed matters less.

A motorcycle is often safer than a supercar for getaways because you take less explosion damage from rockets while moving and you can cut down alleys cars cannot follow. The trade-off is that a single well-placed shot or a clumsy crash can throw you off the bike, so the best getaway riders lean on acceleration and tight cornering to break line of sight rather than betting on raw speed alone.

HSW Bikes and the Hakuchou Drag

On PS5 and Xbox Series X and S, the Shitzu Hakuchou Drag supports Hao's Special Works (HSW) upgrades. With HSW mods fitted, its top speed jumps from about 126.50 mph (203.58 km/h) to roughly 157.50 mph (253.47 km/h).

That makes the HSW Hakuchou Drag one of the fastest motorcycles available, second only to the Reever in straight-line tests. The catch: HSW performance is sometimes disabled inside organized races, so it shines most in free roam and HSW-specific events rather than standard racing playlists. The bike costs $976,000 from Legendary Motorsport before the HSW upgrade.

How to Pick the Right Bike

There is no single best motorcycle in GTA Online, only the best bike for the job:

• Best top speed / best getaway: Western Reever.
• Best lap time / best racer: Nagasaki Shotaro.
• Best all-rounder: Shitzu Hakuchou Drag (especially with HSW on next-gen consoles).
• Best budget pick: Pegassi Bati 801.

For more vehicle stats and where to buy each ride, see our GTA Online hub, and if you want shortcuts to cash for these bikes, check our GTA Online cheats page.

Sources

• GTABase: Fastest Motorcycles in GTA Online, Best GTA V Bikes Ranked
• GTA 5 Rides: Fastest Motorcycles by Top Speed (Broughy1322)
• GTA 5 Rides: Fastest Motorcycles by Lap Time
• GTABase: Nagasaki Shotaro Vehicle Stats and Price
• GTA Wiki: Shotaro
• GamesRadar: The GTA Online Fastest Bikes for Racing and Riding