48 Cylinders? You're Your Bike's Got 48 Cylinders? In A Row?

Don't go adding another cylinder when you walk out the door, k? Jalopnik reader Bzane sent us in this one — it's a 48 cylinder, 4200cc engine made from s1/kh250 cylinders, by Simon Whitlock. And really, that's all we know, but we copied and pasted stuff from the web page linked below after the jump. Check the video in case you don't believe it ain't photoshopped.

"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! "

48 cylinder motorcycle engine [bigbikeriders]

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