Who was thinking about joining several engines together?
Here's a mad example...
There, in front of us, was a three cylinder 490 Maico. Yep, three huge 490 motors all hooked together. We walked around the "thing" and tried to take it all in.
Think about this: a stock 490 Maico puts out about 52 horsepower. Three of them hooked together would crank out somewhere around 156 crazed ponies.
When we tried to get more information about the bike, all we could glean was that the unit was built for sidecar racing and while it actually ran in its current configuration, it had never been ridden in any sort of a complete package. There was no way any sort of kickstarter would work on the bike, but there was a big socket attached one end of the motor and it could be started by putting an electric powered lug wrench tool into the half-inch drive socket.
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Originally Posted by robinm
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