Last Call- I Have Nightmares About Fouled Plugs Edition
Center of gravity be damned, this 48-cylinder, 4,200-cc, unknowable horsepower bike is ridable – but I’m not about to get on it. The build is described by someone familiar with the beast -
Each motor is basically 8 “s1 /KH250″ cylinders bolted on to cut up standard casings, with a 8 cyl built up crank, in turn they are bolted to a housing, gear linked and driven thru a BMW road bike gearbox.
Hear it’s staccato voice here.
Image source; [pashnit.com]
Related posts:
If one or two of those cylinders are not firing, does it matter? Can anyone actually tell? "yes, I can hear it, it is clearly running on 45 cylinders…"
Two weeks ago I thought that about my Ford that has 40 fewer cylinders (though slightly more displacement), and it was blinking the check-engine-light-of-catalyst-doom at me.
You know what the difference of the 48 cylinder and 36 cylinder is at the quarter mile? About three feet.
(Rehash of the bike salesman trying to push me towards the 600 over the 1000)
I dunno, I think some tuned-length intake runners and beautiful headers could replace a few cylinders and claw back that three feet.
There's ram air intakes, and then there's ram air intakes, you know?
Nice supermodel bike: easier to look at than to live with.
…and you'd love to ride it, even if it was only just once, to know what it was like.
"Driver wanted. Long arms/torso & asbestos pants a plus…"
Strong legs for the kick starter would help
I'd vote for a pony engine on this. VRod engine maybe?
Yes Bill, we realize you COULD build a 48 cylinder Kawi, but why would you want to? No Bill, that's not a challenge. Bill, sit back down, it's your deal… Bill? Bill!?!? Ah Christ guys he's gone out to the shed… There's another poker night ruined."
I'd love to see the cloud of blue smoke this monster emits when accelerating. Probably kill mosquitoes for miles around.
I came across this while learning about sliding tube suspension someone mentioned a few days ago. Thought it would be good for Two-Wheel Tuesday Last Call.
<img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lVCC9aDALT4/Sh04M3lwSQI/AAAAAAAAH2U/5grd6K7Xbig/s400/IMG_7298.JPG">
Ahh, the 1929 Majestic. Is that not the prettiest
bike you've ever seen? Put one of the modern
hub-centered steering sets on it and get rid of
those tubes.
It would have been a 54 cylinder, but his friends told him not to be ridiculous.
Hmmmmm…… needs more chainsaw….
[youtube DDWqJe1dCgY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWqJe1dCgY youtube]
Jesse James Dupree likes this.
/hangs head in shame for remembering that guy's name
I live my life .026 inches (6mm) at a time.
There are a lot of sad 250's out there.
Also, that back tire… nevermind. Trying to reason ridiculousness is ridiculous.
At least the plugs, when they require attention, are remarkably easy to access…
I just wanna say —
IN FIRST!
http://hooniverse.com/2010/06/01/a-trio-of-cylind…