48 cylinder motorcycle engine

**jrandom** · 23rd February 2004, 11:26

Originally Posted by Murray10k

You will notice that, unlike yourself, I am able to spell "stupid" correctly. Furthermore, I am able to differentiate between desireable and undesireable members of a large group of individuals.

aye, Yank laddie, weel doon, but ye still cannae spell "desirable".

Originally Posted by Murray10k

sitting there on your little island spewing sour grapes at a large group of the human race who, when they do something, the whole world listens

Temptation to make a fart joke here but I will resist.

I'm fairly sure that there were quite a few Celts, Gauls and the like spewing similar grapes in the general direction of Roma oh, say, 2100 years or so ago. Didn't help 'em much, but.

'bout time for another proper iron-fisted world empire anyway, been doing without one for, oh, a few centuries now. The Brits were far too nice about it and therefore don't count.

Hail the Pax Americana and its noble advocate, Murray10k!

**James Deuce** · 23rd February 2004, 12:51

J - that is the COOLEST response ever.

**SILVER SUZI** · 23rd February 2004, 13:03

Murray: "TAKE ANOTHER VALIUM".
By the way you aren't in charge of a nuke are you. I fucking hope not!
But if you are "take your hand off the button" and relax!

**jrandom** · 23rd February 2004, 13:06

Originally Posted by Jim2

J - that is the COOLEST response ever.

awwwww shucks

**Motoracer** · 23rd February 2004, 13:32

Originally Posted by Murray10k

The last time a KIWI made a hit was back in the 50's when a cool little indian sherpa carried one to the top of the mountain. GET A LIFE, little duck man!

Murray

I don't need to add anything more here to make this guy look even more like an idiot but Sherpas are from Nepal and not India! Hence the Sherpa you are refering to who accompanied Hillary to the Sumit of Everest was a Nepalies man, not Indian! (I don't give a toss about my spelling anyway, its a biker forum for F'sake, not the Oxford English book discussion forum or something lol).

**TX Dj** · 1st December 2004, 12:28

howdy from Texas, kiwi biker mates... beautiful country you guys have there...

It embarrasses the shit outta me to see people from the USA come on forums like this and pull this kinda crap. We have one rock, we all gotta live on it, get over it!

Anyhow... Here's a link I found re: this bloody 48-cyl bike, includes all the pics previously mentioned, plus a link to the video of the guy starting it up. Someone said they wanted to hear what it sounds like.

He cranks this 49cc motor and revs it until it's about ready to pop a cork and then pulls a lever or something that connects it to the engine.

http://www.bigbikeriders.com/48cyl.htm

Cya!

**duckman** · 1st December 2004, 12:40

You just singled handedly improved my impression of all Americans - Go hard that man!!

**NordieBoy** · 1st December 2004, 12:51

Originally Posted by georgedubyabush

wonder what it sounds like. probably like 16 kawasaki triples revved in unison?

Here you go then...

Note to self - Read all the posts when you post a link that just may have been posted a few minutes earlier...

**inlinefour** · 1st December 2004, 13:06

Originally Posted by SpankMe

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 about 5 years ago! . . . . How will he top this one? He can't - WHO CAN? I think as you say, his next project may be reverting back to a small engine and gaining the maximum horsepower from it "

"The bike has a small 75cc "Donkey" engine undr the seat to start it."

"The ignition is by 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! "

I would not even consider riding that

**riffer** · 1st December 2004, 14:04

Originally Posted by Honda

I would not even consider riding that

Ya wuss.

I'd consider riding anything...

**duckman** · 1st December 2004, 14:13

Originally Posted by celticno6

Ya wuss.

I'd consider riding anything...

Yea - thats what I'd heard ......

**marty** · 1st December 2004, 15:06

of course how would you actually KNOW that they are all running?

**bear** · 1st December 2004, 15:09

Good luck picking it up when it gets dropped.

**jrandom** · 1st December 2004, 15:30

Originally Posted by marty

of course how would you actually KNOW that they are all running?

I'd want a little bank of LEDs mounted on the tank, one in series with each of the ignition circuits. Watching 'em flicker faster as you twisted the throttle would be *fun*, and if something wasn't firing it'd be a great diagnostic tool.