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zadok
14th February 2006, 09:50
Yep, you had better believe it. Watch five short video clips on this link: http://motorcycle-photos.com/forum/threadView.aspx?id=2550
Sniper
14th February 2006, 09:54
Wow, thats err interesting :eek5: Who would tune it
Fishy
14th February 2006, 09:59
Hmmm thats very ahhh different.
nudemetalz
14th February 2006, 10:44
That's nothing,....try the 48 cylinder Kawasaki 2-stroke, and it runs too !!!
Momentum
14th February 2006, 11:28
That is one bloody big RINGA DING DING
Phurrball
14th February 2006, 12:13
That is too bizarre for words. (And that other thing too!?)

Perhaps 'twas the engineer with the screw loose rather than the machine itself...
Fishy
14th February 2006, 12:16
bet ya couldn't wheel stand that thing!
Korea
14th February 2006, 13:09
Interesting, but the camerawork is a bit crap on those videos, eh?
I would like to have seen it in proper action; like knee down around the Rimutakas... :laugh:
Madmax
14th February 2006, 13:38
The nine cylinder one used to run 8.2 seconds on plain old
pump gas
:love:
TygerTung
14th February 2006, 21:52
I'd like to see it actually running down the strip or somthing.
Shadows
14th February 2006, 23:01
Those motors must be out of those old H2s or something. Three of them in a row sounds heaps better than one ever did.
Madmax
14th February 2006, 23:51
Those motors must be out of those old H2s or something. Three of them in a row sounds heaps better than one ever did.
3Xh2 motors each one had a name think the last one was called topeaker
the whole kit was wasted and turned into a coffee table at some point
Bummer
(you can tell i know to much about these old things??
but 8.2 on pump gas?? would love to doubled up a tripple in a road race
sidecar)
:angry2:
Motu
15th February 2006, 06:31
The Acheson Topeka and Santa Fe was a drag bike powered by 3 SOHC Honda engines - the bike owned and ridden by one of the editors of Cycle magazine.....his name is on the tip of my tongue,but I won't embarass myself,someone will fill us in I'm sure.
HenryDorsetCase
15th February 2006, 10:34
The Acheson Topeka and Santa Fe was a drag bike powered by 3 SOHC Honda engines - the bike owned and ridden by one of the editors of Cycle magazine.....his name is on the tip of my tongue,but I won't embarass myself,someone will fill us in I'm sure.

Joe Parkhurst was the founding editor of Cycle.

Schilling had the Overdog and California Hot Rod Ducati racers. I re read his Cycle articles over Xmas, so well written, intersting, and haaaard work.

Cook Neilsen rode the bike to its Daytona win.


Speaking of specials, did anyone see the Classic M'cycle Mechanics mag last year with the guy who had made a V12 KAWASAKI KZ2600 out of two six cylinder KZ1300 engines? Absolutely amazing. four stroke and water cooled!!!!

and the crankshaft was stock, the second bank of cylinder con rods bore on the front bank of conrods (somehow.... FIIK) apparently its aircraft engine practice.
Motu
15th February 2006, 10:38
Yeah,Cook Neilson - I had the two names,but as 2 surnames couldn't be sure.Cycle was a great mag back in those days,I've still got some lying around,saved for the good tech articles they did.
HenryDorsetCase
15th February 2006, 10:46
..same. I still have a bunch from the early 80's up to when it folded. I still get Cycle World every month, and really like it, but CW doesnt get to the techy nitty gritty like Cycle did.
nudemetalz
15th February 2006, 10:48
Yeah,Cook Neilson - I had the two names,but as 2 surnames couldn't be sure.Cycle was a great mag back in those days,I've still got some lying around,saved for the good tech articles they did.

If my Memory serves me well, wasn't it someone called Russ Collins who rode a drag bike powered by 3 Honda fours?
I think he had a really nasty crash too.
runed
15th February 2006, 10:50
Speaking of specials, did anyone see the Classic M'cycle Mechanics mag last year with the guy who had made a V12 KAWASAKI KZ2600 out of two six cylinder KZ1300 engines? Absolutely amazing. four stroke and water cooled!!!!

http://www.classicmechanics.com/bissue/2003-10.htm

I NEED A BIGGER BIKE !!!
HenryDorsetCase
15th February 2006, 10:53
you are absolutely right. sorry to put you crook:

linkage:

http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/hofbiopage.asp?id=147





In 1973, Collins built the revolutionary, three-engine, Honda-based drag bike he dubbed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe – named in honor of the famous railroad line of the late 1800s. The monstrous three-engine Honda was featured in numerous motorcycle and drag racing publications and was perhaps the most famous drag bike of the 1970s. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe set numerous records and Collins rode it to the first seven-second quarter-mile turned on a motorcycle in Ontario, California, in 1973. It even became the first motorcycle to win NHRA’s coveted "Best Engineered Car" award at the Springnationals in 1973. The bike was so powerful and heavy that it proved to be very hard to control and in 1976 the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was destroyed in a horrendous accident in Akron, Ohio. The crash landed Collins in the hospital, and while recuperating he dreamed up his next monster creation – The Sorcerer
nudemetalz
15th February 2006, 10:56
Ah,...thanks HDC !!

That's the one !!
HenryDorsetCase
15th February 2006, 10:59
whoah! Here is Russ on the bike
nudemetalz
15th February 2006, 11:00
Big nuts for sure !!!!!!
Motu
15th February 2006, 11:24
If my Memory serves me well, wasn't it someone called Russ Collins who rode a drag bike powered by 3 Honda fours?
I think he had a really nasty crash too.

They are called senior moments...it's perfectly normal and I'm allowd to have them - OK?
nudemetalz
15th February 2006, 13:38
They are called senior moments...it's perfectly normal and I'm allowd to have them - OK?

Hey I agree, I had to rack my failing memory as it was...
HenryDorsetCase
15th February 2006, 14:41
yay for Google is all I can say.