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Title: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on November 15, 2010, 10:30:02 PM
Some people just have too much time and an unfair amount of engineering talent..... :o

24 engined motorcycle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWqJe1dCgY&feature=related

48 cylinder Kawasaki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ratfuML9QA&feature=related

500HP Dodge viper bike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ratfuML9QA&feature=related

V12 Z1300
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkggvRjk0eE&feature=related

V12 CBX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEe6c3KIUB4&feature=related

5 cylinder KH500
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OifcVw97hK8&feature=related


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: BikerGran on November 15, 2010, 11:07:10 PM
Somewhere (can't find it) I have a print of a phot I took at Beaulieu of a motorcycle with a Volvo engine.  Bloke said he built it 'to see if I could'.  When asked if he was going to fire it up and take it round the demo track he said 'not till I figure out how to make it go round corners'.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: steve_w on November 18, 2010, 06:43:06 PM
5 cylinder KH is cool ;D


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 02, 2011, 06:56:01 AM
Now this is really silly  ;D

Chainsaw powered biked


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWqJe1dCgY&feature=related


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 02, 2011, 06:58:50 AM
Here's a coincidence, this week I went to see a guy about some ally welding and we got nattering (as ya do), and it turned out that he was the guy that built the frame for this 48 cylinder monster. He said when built it weighed a ton and a half (litterally) !!  :D

Apparently it doesn't get ridden.................


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 02, 2011, 07:02:07 AM
Reckon this twin-Norton powered street bike fits under the 'cool' category as opposed to 'wacky'.

Really (really) like it..............  :P   :P


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 02, 2011, 07:07:02 AM
This is a real 4x4......

Two Ariel square four engines in tandem (can't say I've seen one of these before)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 02, 2011, 07:11:53 AM
Couple of nice old Triumph lumps in a drag bike............   :P

Supercharged? - of course  ;)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 02, 2011, 07:25:53 AM
So lets go "eco" for a minute and have a look at an electric motorcycle.

Somehow I don't think this is quite the motorcycle world's equivalent of the a Prius (?), but I'm open to be convinced otherwise................  ;D



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVv0NVLFPig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killacycle


and this is what happens when the normal rider lets the designer ride it......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pM1j2d1RMU


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 02, 2011, 07:29:04 AM
A fair few of the Mankies like the old XS650 Yamaha from the '70's, so here's a way to boost the power just a wee bit



Thread about excessive XS650s

http://www.mankymonkeymotors.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=9102.0


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 02, 2011, 07:52:43 AM
....and just when you thought you'd seen it all????



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ratfuML9QA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU_HYXOgbRw&feature=related


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 02, 2011, 07:55:26 AM
Another radial powered machine


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Firery Fred on April 02, 2011, 08:11:19 PM
The Norton's a real beut  ::)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on April 02, 2011, 08:33:44 PM
Aye, the Norton twin twin's luvverly.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 13, 2011, 04:47:18 PM
Found some more interesting two wheeled devices.....


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 13, 2011, 04:47:55 PM
and this....


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on April 13, 2011, 04:48:40 PM
and this too.....


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: lunatic on April 13, 2011, 07:17:47 PM
I really love the last two!


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: phunkie hiboy on May 28, 2011, 08:35:08 PM
Knew I had some pictures of this somewhere, They are pictures of photographs ('cos I couldn't be arsed to scan them. This is the same engine that would have come in a Hemi 'Cuda, weighs in at 426 cu in, thats around about 7 litres in new money!!
Took this at the 2002 California Hot Rod Reunion..........................


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: ByzMax on May 28, 2011, 09:14:48 PM
Robbie on the Britchopper forum built an NSU powered chop and is now building a twin engined one!  ;D

Click the link and then scroll down the page to see em!

http://www.britchopper.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=28973&start=25 (http://www.britchopper.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=28973&start=25)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on May 28, 2011, 09:41:26 PM
I see the 'Cuda monster has an XS Yam front wheel. About the only thing we have in common! Bit of a beast ain't it.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on June 22, 2011, 03:51:54 PM
Found this rather nice double-engined Triton called Tri2ton


Two piccies taken from the article below

http://www.pipeburn.com/home/2010/11/13/1959-twin-engined-tri2ton.html


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on June 22, 2011, 03:52:57 PM
and a close up of those lovely engines ......


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on June 22, 2011, 03:57:49 PM
Isn't that pretty.
Is there an engineering reason for the slight V formation? Or just for looks?


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on June 22, 2011, 04:07:56 PM
Isn't that pretty.
Is there an engineering reason for the slight V formation? Or just for looks?

Only guessing here, but could be a really easy answer of fitting the damn things in a small space, also lets the front carbs stand a bit more chance of getting 'cool' air.

Seen some other double-Triumphs inclined like that, and others with both engines in the normal vertical position, or maybe to make it look like a Vee four ?   ::) (told you I was guessing..)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: WAYNE999 on June 22, 2011, 08:00:13 PM
oooohhhh thats pretty i think im going to have a trouser accident


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on June 29, 2011, 11:08:19 PM
Norm Wheeldon's "Two Much" dragster at the recent Nostalgia Nationals drag meet at Shakespeare County Raceway.

YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxS-ofPinxI)

Is that BlackPig's Humber parked up at the top of the fire up lane?
And what's the vintage sprint bike in the foreground?


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on June 30, 2011, 06:02:59 AM
Nice rail.............. ;)

Bike is the reverse-head blown Triumph-based Hagon-framed beasty.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: brock on June 30, 2011, 06:45:34 AM
   not the Humber, '54 Chevy, that is us sprawled across the bonnet though, we had just done a demo push start with Gina in the race car.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: brock on June 30, 2011, 06:48:37 AM
    Spot the camera man ?    ........and did anyone spot the starter ?

   


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: brock on June 30, 2011, 06:54:14 AM
    There was a selection of older drag bikes there at the weekend


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: brock on June 30, 2011, 06:59:24 AM
.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: ByzMax on June 30, 2011, 09:05:36 AM
Yep the starter got my attention.

Bet there was a few lazy starts that day.  ;D


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on June 30, 2011, 03:59:41 PM
"and did anyone spot the starter" ?

-so it wasn't Tony then?

That Norton's rather purdy in't it.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 23, 2011, 05:47:04 PM
This is what I call 'unique'.............


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 23, 2011, 05:50:49 PM
... and there's this drag bike from yesteryear - thinks its 'Dragwaye', 1300cc of VW


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: phunkie hiboy on December 24, 2011, 01:41:52 PM
Battlestar was designed by Russ Collins back in '82.
Another one from back in the seventies, by Russ Collins was "the Sorcerer", 3 Honda 4s supercharged and running on nitro, 6 second 200mph machine,

(http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/yy95/phunkie_hiboy/Freds23_640_x_480.jpg)



Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 28, 2011, 05:29:18 PM
... and there's this drag bike from yesteryear - thinks its 'Dragwaye', 1300cc of VW

Dragwaye in action at Blackbushe 1964 courtesy of Pathe News

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1809


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 29, 2011, 05:54:13 PM
A V12 flathead in a motorcycle................ coooool  8)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzFzcWe6pH8


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: cunningplan on December 29, 2011, 10:02:46 PM
... and there's this drag bike from yesteryear - thinks its 'Dragwaye', 1300cc of VW

And this one is being rebuilt and should/might be out this year


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on December 29, 2011, 10:14:00 PM
Love the Flattie!


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 21, 2012, 05:48:04 PM
Thought I'd reserect this thread as found a couple more interesting bikes............

So hows this for a Monkey bike with a wee bit of get-up-'n'-go !


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 21, 2012, 05:51:14 PM
Engine - Honda CBX 1000cc, DOHC six cylinder, six carbs................


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: triker_Chewie on December 22, 2012, 01:03:37 AM
Lots of go. No Woah.rim scrub bike brakes? Mutts be a loony


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: haggis on December 22, 2012, 03:39:35 AM
Does This one  (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Project-Chopper-Bobber-unfinished-spares-/160932934529?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&nma=true&si=S3MBO%2BOj0T525JMyM1RvSJk%2BRb4%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc) count?
Picking it up in a few hours. God knows why


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: triker_Chewie on December 22, 2012, 04:24:57 AM
Does This one  (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Project-Chopper-Bobber-unfinished-spares-/160932934529?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&nma=true&si=S3MBO%2BOj0T525JMyM1RvSJk%2BRb4%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc) count?
Picking it up in a few hours. God knows why

wind powered?


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Olds on December 22, 2012, 08:14:26 AM
Does This one  (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Project-Chopper-Bobber-unfinished-spares-/160932934529?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&nma=true&si=S3MBO%2BOj0T525JMyM1RvSJk%2BRb4%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc) count?
Picking it up in a few hours. God knows why

Well it's different.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: dave 67 on December 22, 2012, 09:17:23 AM
Found this rather nice double-engined Triton called Tri2ton


Two piccies taken from the article below

http://www.pipeburn.com/home/2010/11/13/1959-twin-engined-tri2ton.html

I've seen this in the flesh it's a cracking bike


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: hunter on December 22, 2012, 12:53:18 PM
Does This one  (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Project-Chopper-Bobber-unfinished-spares-/160932934529?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&nma=true&si=S3MBO%2BOj0T525JMyM1RvSJk%2BRb4%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc) count?
Picking it up in a few hours. God knows why


Q plate.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: cunningplan on December 22, 2012, 02:15:28 PM
Does This one  (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Project-Chopper-Bobber-unfinished-spares-/160932934529?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&nma=true&si=S3MBO%2BOj0T525JMyM1RvSJk%2BRb4%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc) count?
Picking it up in a few hours. God knows why


dont know what it is but it looks smart  ::)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: spanners on December 22, 2012, 02:18:03 PM
mini auto ,


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: JayJay on November 14, 2016, 12:46:02 AM
A long time since Tony posted about this huge motorbike but I came across this YouTube clip while looking for something totally different, as you do. :)  I checked to see if it had already been posted and here it was. This 'new' video was posted in 2014. I didn't realise the bike was in the Guinness World Record book. The clip gives more info on how it has been put together. A feat of engineering. Really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McSikBdGghU&feature=youtube_gdata_player (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McSikBdGghU&feature=youtube_gdata_player)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on November 14, 2016, 08:54:05 AM
Nice to see the age old use of "Easy Start" :D

Spotted this little beauty at The 2016 Goodwood Revival. Its powered by a tiny Gnome & Rhone radial engine (similar to radial engines used in certain aircraft only way way smaller).

What a stonking piece of engineering


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on November 14, 2016, 08:54:46 AM
Closer shot of the engine


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on November 14, 2016, 09:13:53 AM
I think that was at the Bike Shed show in London last year too. Lovely little thing. Sometimes small is beautiful.  :)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: BikerGran on November 14, 2016, 10:28:28 PM
If you want small - I believe this engine is about 25cc, took the pic at Aberdare Park in 2014, I think the bloke's name was Martin.  A mate of his found the engine in his garage and was going to chuck it out, so he took it on to find something useful to do with it - made himself a paddock bike!


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on November 15, 2016, 08:28:59 AM
I like crazy people!  :P


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: the coppersmith on November 15, 2016, 08:59:26 AM
I like crazy people!  :P

Think we're all here sir  ;)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on November 18, 2016, 11:32:28 AM
Back in the 1930's there was a chap called Fred Luther who decided he was gonna build a bike to do 200mph (as you would.......)

Power-plant - a six cylinder Plymouth

Cool or what!!!  8)

http://theoldmotor.com/?p=136427


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on November 19, 2016, 09:48:02 AM
A Steyer (guessing circa 1910....?)



Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on November 19, 2016, 09:50:10 AM
The 1903 Buchet-powered machine.

Note the lack of saddle


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: minimutly on November 19, 2016, 01:23:36 PM
Love the pedal clips on that steyr.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on February 13, 2017, 12:26:34 PM
A Triumph parallel parallel-twin drag bike from the States


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on February 13, 2017, 12:30:43 PM
and from the other side


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on February 13, 2017, 12:34:39 PM
And what happens when a Triumph drag bike engine says "no more"

Photo courtesy of Keith Lee
http://www.keithleeimages.co.uk/html/drag_racing.html


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on March 08, 2017, 06:24:25 PM
When you need some cubes - Fred Luther with a Plymouth V8 powerplant circa mid 30s


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: minimutly on March 09, 2017, 09:25:20 AM
And what happens when a Triumph drag bike engine says "no more"

Photo courtesy of Keith Lee
http://www.keithleeimages.co.uk/html/drag_racing.html
"Ya cannah beat the laws of physics cap'n"


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: BikerGran on March 09, 2017, 05:54:05 PM
 ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Olds on March 12, 2017, 08:38:29 AM
 The Luther Plymouth was built for a land speed attempt at Bonneville in 1935. It had a 1934 Chrysler (Plymouth) PF flathead straight six. Did two runs before breaking a con rod and never ran again until it was recently restored.
If the frame looks sort of familiar, that's because it's a stretched Henderson X.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on March 12, 2017, 11:15:34 AM
"Plymouth"! -I thought it said Flymo on the tank!


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on March 13, 2017, 09:18:20 AM
"Plymouth"! -I thought it said Flymo on the tank!

Hush hush pre-production prototype  ;D


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 07, 2018, 12:46:12 PM
Thought it might to a good time to revive this thread with some new pics after posting Colin Pearce’s double engine AJS/Matchless on another thread.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 07, 2018, 12:48:07 PM
When two four-pot lumps aren’t enough, why not have three....................


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 07, 2018, 12:49:37 PM
The Dixon Racing sponsored Assassin (me thinks from the 80’s)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 07, 2018, 12:51:38 PM
Sometimes it goes a tad wrong.........

The remains of John Hobbs’s Triumph lump back in 1968


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 07, 2018, 12:54:12 PM
Fellow MMM Dslam’s homebuilt, blown, reversed-head, methanol-burning Triumph


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 07, 2018, 12:55:18 PM
A pair of Honda 750 motors, me thinks from the USA


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 07, 2018, 12:56:18 PM
Just a wee bit unusual, a pair of Manx Nortons


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 07, 2018, 12:58:00 PM
From not long ago, a blown XS650 at the Ramsey Sprint on the Isle of Man


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on December 07, 2018, 12:59:12 PM
A couple of pre-unit Triumphs lumps, with blower


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: morrag on December 07, 2018, 03:43:15 PM
All of them superb, with Dslam's offering indeed a thing of simple mechanical beauty, and whilst it's visual simplicity is what makes it the stand out piece of kit that it is, the execution of same would have been anything but simple....so an old fashioned sentiment,.. just smashing!!  ;D ;D ...........Morrag


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: BikerGran on December 07, 2018, 05:24:53 PM
Somewhere I've got a photo I took about 20 years ago at Motorcycle World - but you'll have to imagine it cos it's buried in one of the boxes of old photos.  It's a bike with a Volvo V6 or V8 engine in it, the bloke said he built it just to see if he could.  When I asked if he was going to take it round the demo track he said not till he found out how to make it go round corners!


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: minimutly on December 09, 2018, 08:14:18 AM
Volvo v6 probably - prv engine, shared with Renault and Peugeot.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Dslam on December 09, 2018, 12:00:15 PM
All of them superb, with Dslam's offering indeed a thing of simple mechanical beauty, and whilst it's visual simplicity is what makes it the stand out piece of kit that it is, the execution of same would have been anything but simple....so an old fashioned sentiment,.. just smashing!!  ;D ;D ...........Morrag

Morrag,
What can I say. It is so satisfying when someone sees things the way I do.
High praise indeed. Thank you ;D


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: morrag on December 09, 2018, 08:58:32 PM
You are very welcome, and richly deserved. One of my current MOV's looked like this back in the day, and was quite successful....ho hum days gone by!!..Morrag


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on February 16, 2019, 12:35:41 PM
A six cylinder Henderson, circa 1930.

Reportedly a factory prototype, but some question this. The factory were making the four cylinder (as used by many American police forces), but this was the time of the great depression..........

Personally I like it .............



See this facebok page https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.531613176933541.1073741847.471741216254071&type=3


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on February 16, 2019, 12:51:43 PM
Here’s a ‘modern’ take on the four cylinder along-the-frame idea, a 1957 Sunbeam 1000 called “Fourbeam” by its owner/builder Martyn Bratby, who mated two S7/S8 twin-cylinder engines together.

Wonderful engineering!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rI-GW_NFwY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeSvBBumuOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB8zRa1SdU0


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on June 19, 2020, 01:57:13 PM
Page 1 included the 48 cylinder Kawasaki, well here it is again (maybe with a new owner?) firing up, eventually, after 5 years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McSikBdGghU


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Tony oily bike on June 19, 2020, 02:05:32 PM
The builder of this has taken a Lister "stationary engine" and made it mobile...……..

The starter button is, in my humble opinion, a nice touch (check it out in the video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xePknD5eQgU


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on June 19, 2020, 08:44:29 PM
I see what you mean :)
-& sausages too.


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: BikerGran on July 10, 2020, 10:41:56 PM
Somewhere I have a photo I took at Beaulieu Motorcycle World, of a bike with a Volvo car engine in it.  One day I'm going to sort out my old photos and digitise them!

I asked the owner if he was going to ride it round the race er demo track and he said not till he'd worked out how to make it go round corners.  He was deadly serious!   :)


Title: Re: Bikes with wacky engines
Post by: Manky Monkey on July 11, 2020, 02:47:38 PM
 :o