48 cylinder motorcycle engine

**Steam** · 29th December 2007, 13:00

Have a look, it's here on Ebay.
Fun to build but not much fun to ride perhaps?
It holds the record for "Most Cylinders Ever on a Land Vehicle"
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=260196762893

EDIT: it's not a Ducati at all, it's made of Kawasaki bits. On the ebay ad it says it's a Red Dog Ducati, but that;s the name of the motorcycle shop where the guy built it.

**skidMark** · 29th December 2007, 13:04

being a ducati...thats a shitload of expensive maintenance...

hi i'd like to do a top end rebuild on my ducati...

....ok how many cylinders is it....

fourty eight

come again?

fourty eight...

ummm, won ze jackpot did we.

what do ya mean guvna shouldn't be much it's only a ducati, italian bikes....low maintenaince.

keep telling yaself that buddy.

**The Pastor** · 29th December 2007, 13:09

does it go?

**Steam** · 29th December 2007, 13:10

Originally Posted by renegade master

does it go?

Yes, it's registered and taxed and all.

**stanko** · 29th December 2007, 13:10

Seeing as it is make from Kawasaki S1 parts I guess it should be called anything but a Ducati. Maybe just misrepresented.

**The Pastor** · 29th December 2007, 13:13

Originally Posted by Steam

Yes, it's registered and taxed and all.

dose it go though? I dont think it can turn?

**James Deuce** · 29th December 2007, 13:33

Originally Posted by stanko

Seeing as it is make from Kawasaki S1 parts I guess it should be called anything but a Ducati. Maybe just misrepresented.

Thank you stanko!

I've never seen it represented as anything other than a collection of Kawasaki parts, in everything from Bike mags to web sites, with the odd newspaper in between. Ducati haven't made two strokes for many, many years.

**Steam** · 29th December 2007, 13:47

Oh, I see it is made by the guy who owns "Red Dog Ducati", a motorcycle shop, so maybe that's where the confusion came in.

**Romeo** · 29th December 2007, 14:47

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**Wiki Drifter** · 29th December 2007, 19:19

ar.... the destroyer of Ozone. Somebody sell that man some carbon credits

**barty5** · 29th December 2007, 21:24

lot work to get 200hp and it dosent even look that ride able never mind fuel consumption

**HenryDorsetCase** · 29th December 2007, 21:35

Originally Posted by barty5

lot work to get 200hp and it dosent even look that ride able never mind fuel consumption

ridability is so not the point of something like this though.

I love this kind of stuff, though I personally think the 12 cylinder Kawasaki (two KZ1300 inline sixes across the frame stapled together to become a V12) is a cooler thing. Made by a guy in UK called Allen Millyard

madness!