Sport Bike
The Sport Bike is a Bike body that appears in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. As its name implies, it resembles a typical sports bike with a fairing enclosing the front part and as such it could be considered the successor to the Mach Bike from Mario Kart Wii. The bike has good acceleration and handling stats, but its weight and especially traction stats are poor. The character's logo is at the center of the front side, and there is another logo next to the exhaust pipe. It changes its varnish depending on its driver. It has the same stats as the Comet, the Yoshi Bike, and the Jet Bike. It has a four stroke twin cylinder and its sound is shared with the Yoshi Bike.
Although this bike is available from the start, CPU players will never use it, thus it is a player exclusive vehicle in the Wii U version. It is also the only starter vehicle with this feature.
Stats
- Ground Speed: 0
- Water Speed: 0
- Air Speed: 0
- Anti-Gravity Speed: -0.25
- Acceleration: +0.75
- Weight: -0.25
- Ground Handling: +0.75
- Water Handling: +0.75
- Air Handling: +0.75
- Anti-Gravity Handling: +0.5
- Traction: -1.25
- Mini-Turbo: +0.5
- Drift Type: Inside
Varnish types
The Sport Bike has three different varnish types. All three of these are used by multiple characters.
The first varnish is red and dark blue. A Bullet Bill sign and Chain Chomp Lettering are on both sides.
The second varnish type is green with white trim. It has advertisements for 1-Up Racing and Lemmy's Tire Service. A 1-Up Mushroom adorns the front of the bike.
The third varnish type is yellow and orange. It has signs for "Peach & Daisy Royal Pâtisserie","Princess Orange", and "Lemmy's Tire Service" on it.
On an additional note, the green and the yellow/orange varnishes for the Sport Bike greatly resemble the green and orange-yellow varnishes for the Circuit Special.
| Body | Characters | Mii Colors | Mii amiibo Racing Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
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  File:YoshiRed-MK8.pngFile:YoshiBlue-MK8.pngLight-blue YoshiFile:YoshiBlack-MK8.png  Blue Shy GuyLight-blue Shy GuyFile:ShyGuyBlack-MK8.png        
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Red, Light-blue, Blue, Purple, Black | Mario Suit, Hylian Suit, Captain Falcon Suit, Fox Suit, Toad Suit, Bowser Suit, Rosalina Suit, Mega Man Suit, Sonic Suit, Pikmin Suit |
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  File:YoshiWhite-MK8.png Green Shy GuyFile:ShyGuyWhite-MK8.png      
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Light-green, Green, White | Luigi Suit, Yoshi Suit, Animal Crossing Suit |
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   File:YoshiYellow-MK8.pngFile:YoshiPink-MK8.pngFile:YoshiOrange-MK8.pngYellow Shy GuyPink Shy GuyOrange Shy Guy          
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Orange, Yellow, Pink, Brown | Peach Suit, Donkey Kong Suit, Kirby Suit, Varia Suit, Wario Suit, Pac-Man Suit |
Gallery
- MarioKart8RosalinaBike.jpg
Rosalina, on her Sport Bike.
- SportBikeRosalinaBackMK8.jpeg
Roy Koopa rides on his Sport Bike.
Ludwig von Koopa, on his Sport Bike.
Larry Koopa rides on his Sport Bike.
Names in other languages
Trivia
- The orange-yellow Sport Bike color scheme is used by all of the non-DLC female characters.
- Donkey Kong is the only non-DLC male character who uses this color scheme.
- Despite his shell color, Lemmy never uses this color scheme for his Sport Bike (or on his Circuit Special).
- Excluding female Miis, Isabelle is the only female character who does not use the orange-yellow varnish for her Sport Bike. Instead she uses the green varnish. Isabelle is also the only female to use the green varnish (excluding female Miis), as all other characters that use it are male.
- Excluding female Miis, the red-blue varnish is the only color to be used by only male characters.
- Tanooki Mario is the only incarnation of Mario to not use this varnish color. Instead he uses the orange-yellow varnish.
- Just like the Circuit Special, excluding the large Mii, the green varnish is the only varnish color that's not used by any large body frame characters.
