Mix spring break with Shovelheads and sport bikes and you've got Bike Week, the two-wheeled three-ring circus that attracts more than 500,000 bikers and biker wannabes to Daytona Beach each spring.

A long time ago, a hack writer said his motorcycle had "enough torque to rotate the earth." Such exaggeration is sinful at best, but the fellow probably believed it since his machine (with its 50 ...