Its not about how fast a machine can go on road, these bikes stand out everywhere like a sore thumb, e.g. if you want to find a white suzuki mehran with dented door in any Pakistani city it will be hard to find because they are dozens of the damn things.
on the otherhand you can spot a unique machine like this quite easily.
That is why their robbers use a covered pickup truck or something similar to steal these (I know of one Yamaha R1 that was stolen in khi) luckily spotted by a bystander being loaded into a hilux with rear hood.. Even the bystander was fascinated by the bike and he found it odd that it was being loaded into a truck like that.