48 cylinder motorcycle (I DID NOT BUILD THIS BIKE)

I DID NOT BUILD THIS BIKE. It is a 48 cylinder, 4200cc engine made from s1/kh250 cylinders, by Simon Whitlock.
"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, as the bike is pretty long already it would be difficult to put a transverse drive thru a gearbox. It has taken almost three years of hard work and he has overcome some huge problems to get here - - where do you even start to think about building a bike like this? . . . Oh, by the way, Simon is not an engineer of any kind - he oversees the building of shopping precincts etc

Don't look at it as a bike, look at it as a pure feat of engineering . . . and Simon built a Nitrous injected, fuel injected, water cooled, supercharged H1.
It has a small chainsaw motor under the seat that is used as the starter motor for the 48 cylinder motor. "The ignition is 6 x 8cyl E-Type Jaguar distributers."

"Oh, and not only does it run - but it is rideable - JUST! - the engine and box alone weight just over a ton! " Same guy has made several other multicylinder bikes of different types. Two of them are in the Barber Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham Ala. Largest and most complete motorcycle museum in the world. Look it up at www.barbermuseum.org

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[waterwart]

How in THE HELL does he conect all those engines to a transmission? THAT's what I want to know.

[macdaddybd1]

@waterwart I know it will be difficult for you. I know you've gotten used to having everything handed to you. But I will not perpetuate your weakness. For the answer to your question, TRY READING THE DAMNED DESCRIPTION.

[bigrich0926]

WHY?

[macdaddybd1]

One more time for the slower kids like @bigrich0926... Those who can't ask why. Those who can ask why not. Ask that big kid in your gym class to explain that to you next time you ask him "why" he keeps taking your lunch money.

[anonymous1111]

Why do these video's of these crazy bikes never show anyone riding it?

[Schwerter08]

@anonymous1111 because only Chuck Norris can do it xD

[chavrecycling]

@MrGr1874 Then, he's hooked this rack of eights to a rear box that couples up all six cranks, and also a small scooter engine, which starts it. That's mad in itself, but imagine what's involved in welding up 6 crankshafts more than a metre long; each made from 3 cranks.

It's got six Jaguar V12 distributors on the front of the engine. How did he work out how to drive them? This is all mechanical. No black box here, and yes, it's 4.2 litre, 48 cylinder and 2 stroke.

Madness! Genius!

[paulksycki]

They need motorcycle pulls like tractor pulls. This bike would dominate. It reminds me of the super modified multi engine tractors.

[troelsringgaard]

pretty badass bike to be honest :).

still cool it's a 2 stroke engine :D,

[plisplis00]

nevermnd all these hating douchebags i love it :D a true engineering achievement i bet any of these halfwits ould be proud of if the had the talent/knowledge to be able to build it ...,

[Wideglid80]

all you maggots jealous cause you don't know how to build anything?

[Triumph750Bonneville]

It's only running on 47.

[TheHanndave]

Why?? You should ask why not?

I bet most of you spend hours a day playing WOW or some shooter game,jackin' it,and/or watching stupid TV.

And u think your life is more constructive??

For those interested the kh 250 was a 250 cc 3 cylinder of 28 hp so 9+ hp per cylinder of 83 cc.

So it's a 4 litre engine of about 440 hp

The crank is a sectioned/pressed unit so it's really easy to pull it apart and hook back together as many cylinders you want.Then weld the cases together.

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[wwfww]

Chuck norris bike??