Quade Cooper produced the party tricks, Luke Morahan the finishing and Digby Ioane the breakdancing as the Queensland Reds celebrated life at the top of the Super Rugby standings on Saturday night.

Queensland clinched a sixth straight win, their equal longest streak in the professional era, with a 39-30 victory over the defending champion Bulls at their Suncorp Stadium fortress.

The scoreline flattered Victor Matfield's team from Pretoria as the dazzling Reds revelled in their high-tempo, ball-in-hand game to score six tries to three in front of 30,000 fans.

Only the wayward goalkicking of Cooper, who was on song in every other department, kept the match from blowing out much earlier than when skipper James Horwill sealed the result by barging over in the 74th minute.

The celebrations will be toned down immediately by coach Ewen McKenzie with a clash with bogey team NSW just seven days away but their ninth straight win at Suncorp deserved the in-goal breakdancing winger Ioane provided when he finished a 90m counterattack in the 65th minute.

Fullback-winger Morahan challenged playmaker Cooper, who dug deep into his bag of tricks, for man-of-the-match honours by scoring a double and almost bagging a hat-trick with an individual 90m effort in the first half that was stopped by Bulls flyer Bjorn Basson.

The Bulls looked down and out for much of the first half and the Reds eventually exploited the tiring defence through a try to ageless flanker Radike Samo for a 17-6 lead a minute before the break.

But Basson, who also finished with two tries, breathed life back into his team by racing onto Steyn's restart, plucking the ball from out of the grasp of Rod Davies 10m from the line and strolling over.

Steyn missed a long-range chance to close within a point and then the Reds switched back on with a try from the top-shelf to Morahan.

Given quick ball from a scrum near half-way, Cooper hit the speedster with a pin-point cut-out pass and Morahan raced 40m untouched for a 22-13 lead.

In the sights of the Melbourne Rebels, Morahan finished another brilliant scrum move by Will Genia and Cooper in the 59th minute to secure the four-try bonus point.

As well as producing some scintillating backline play, the Reds muscled up front and had the better of the bigger Bulls pack in the scrums and at the breakdown.

McKenzie praised his side's efforts to back up immediately from their two-match tour of South Africa.

He was delighted that his players adapted so well to a gameplan which was completely removed from the field position game which upset the Stormers 19-6 in Cape Town.

"I think that ranks highly in terms of character," he said. "It was difficult circumstances.

"Given the week we've had it was a great result.

"To be able to come back and play the opposite game plan that we did the week before, and against one of the great sides, speaks volumes for the players and their ability to adapt and their willingness to adapt."

A disappointed Matfield felt only one stray pass cost the Bulls a chance of stealing the match as fullback Zane Kirchner's inside ball missed his support close to the line and found replacement Reds lock Adam Wallace-Harrison.

At 27-16, it was a massive turning point as Wallace-Harrison brilliantly snapped a kick ahead for Ioane to chase, toe ahead and score for what Matfield labelled a 14-point turnaround.

Ioane dubbed his in-goal celebrations, which resembled a gymnast on the pommel, "the Turtle" and explained they were sparked by the crowd support.

"I could feel the energy out there with the crowd and I had to do something special," the Wallabies winger said.

Queensland have now won nine straight at Suncorp Stadium but their last loss there came against the Waratahs in the opening round last year.

The Reds' last overall defeat was also to NSW, a 30-6 thumping in round two in Sydney.

Rising prop James Slipper is in doubt for the grudge match after sustaining a suspected sternum injury late in proceedings.

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