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World First 48 Cylinder Motorcycle Engine


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.
Simon Whitlock created the world’s first 48-cylinder, 4,200cc motorcycle “by bolting a bunch of engine parts together”. Three years and many “huge problems” later, the bike was finally completed.