Each player can choose from twelve licensed bikes and race on roads around the world fom Sturgis, Monaco, Chicago, Shanghai, Detroit and Switzerland. Players can customize their bikes with NOS, bigger engines and tyres. Each track has shortcuts to unveil which when taken the player gains advantage over his opponents. Players can perform various moves such as helicopter spins and barrel rolls.
Drifting is also an important feature of the gameplay which enables power-sliding through the curves. Super Bikes is the best motorcycle game ever released in the arcade industry.