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English motorcycle enthusiast Simon Whitelock is the “madman” responsible for the existence of an outrageous contraption. It is based on the Kawasaki 250 S1, a relatively small bike equipped with a 3-cylinder 250 cc engine capable of putting out 31 hp. The Kawasaki features six rows of eight original S1 cylinders, stripped off of 16 S1 motorcycle engines. All cylinders are connected to a common transmission, borrowed from a BMW motorcycle, and require more than the regular electric starter motor to start.
“The 48-cylinder lump is slightly harder to start than your conventional motorcycle engine, so instead of an electronic starter motor, we decided to use what we call a ‘donkey engine’ a little sub-50cc engine, which is started, and in turn that starts the 48-cylinder engine,” Whitelock explained when he first unveiled his creation in 2003. So, essentially, the motorcycle which is known as the Whitelock Tinker Toy, has 16 in-line en
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