9 cylinder Kwaka 2 stroke!

**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

Originally Posted by Motu

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

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

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/hall...age.asp?id=147

Originally Posted by that site

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

Originally Posted by nudemetalz

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?