I would love to see the Barber Museum get it. That was, the public would get a chance to see it. I really like Jay. I’ve met him twice. But his collection is private. The bikes at Barber… you can actually put your hands on them.
That was the first name out of my mouth when I heard for sale 😝 Find it hard to believe that it sounded like a 125cc 2 stroke? You can't really hear it running after the pony motor was shut off in that old video
haha, backfiring and really struggling to make it from one side of the car park to the other! 50,000 pound? 3 ride-able hyabusa's vs 1 unrideable thing.
It's a shame it had to be restricted, but fitting 48 expansion chambers would have been a bit tricky and a tad too loud. It was good to see this engineering masterpiece again. Thanks
@@PaulKind3d I believe it is more complicated than simply having backpressure; the expansion chamber is tuned like an organ pipe to produce an oscillating exhaust stream. At the design rpm, this creates a period of low pressure when the exhaust port is exposed, which helps to evacuate the combustion chamber and bring in more air and fuel for the next stroke.
Get Ken Kaplan (The king of ping) on the phone,if anything needs to go in his museum it’s that beast.Its got his name all over it,keep up the unusual matey 👍🏻
His museum really is a cool place. I live in Rhode Island and his museums about an hour drive for me. I went on a Saturday once with my father and they were even starting up a 4 cyl two stroke race bike at the time and let us come down into the off limits shop and look at some of their personal bikes etc. absolutely amazing guys there
I remember seeing this machine at the Bath and West custom and classic show decades ago and totally loving it. I was a big 2T Triple fan back then, and still am. Some 2TT machines Ive owned were; KH 250(I had five at one point, of various marks) KH 400s (2) H 1 though mine was a Japanese import, amd as such was badged as a KH 500 and was quite different to the 'Normal ' H1 with its twin discs, and alloy wheels. I had a set of over bored H2 Barrels and (if I recall correctly) Yamaha DT 400 pistons which would have given it a displacement of 870cc. Anyway I got married and it never got built. A shame as it would have been glorious. Suzuki 2TTs that I owned were GT 380s (I bought a double garage full of these and spares along with a T 500, a T 250, GT 250 ram air and a lovely little GT 125 six speed...Phew! And all for £100!! The owner had died in a bike wreck and his wife wanted them all gone.) I had a GT 550 for a short while but it was a pig that just had to go to the slaughter. But..and I saved it for last. A 1978 BMW R 80 which I bought fitted with a SAAB 92 car engine! It was a 2 stroke triple of just under 800cc c/w three mikuni carbs and a custom built/ modified set of three tuned pipes.(Expansion chambers.) It was one of my all time favourite machines. I ended up bolting on a Czech Velorex sidecar to it and leading link forks/ Car tyres and a seperate sidecar brake. With a full fairing and Kreuser luggage my wife and I toured the lake district and then up into Scotland and Fort William to climb Ben Nevis. Epic times and it never missed a stroke in over 1200 miles! Sorry this is so long but these machines were my passion
I have a challenge for you: Find, and ride (and make a video) Of the Ossa Enduro 250/300i. A fuel injected, rearward facing cylinder, two stroke enduro bike. That bike is just so amazing in my mind. a real shame they did not end up making more of them. And the expansion chamber that goes under the seat. Just a beautiful bike.
its bonkers max i'v seen it in bits of videos on youtube and facebook for ages and i had spotted it was for sale but was a great vid to know the history of the machine and see the mad man behind it very good
Hello Max, thank you to show us this incredible motorbike. She is done with a lot of care. But very long , and very hard to drive. I would like to listen it with more attention. Kris
Nice video Max, an amazing bit of engineering, I was expecting it to be way louder and a bit more throaty, be good to see little Sean to try to reach handlebars bit of a stretch, again nice one Max.
That's a right beast of a bike Max..Love the 2 strokes..It's a bit of a shame the riding position was definitely an afterthought..but still what an amazing achievement and made here in the UK 😉👍
big shout out to chris applebee' engineering , he built my IT 250 engine showed me the way on a few things and certainly DOES KNOW his 2 TS. HIs workshop is a 2T wonderland and like nothing i have ever seen
A modern review of the 72 Kawi H2 Mach IV, the 71 Yamaha TM400J, and the 97 Suzuki TL1000S would be great ... 3 of the most dangerous engineering shortfalls in motorcycle history. I've ridden them over the years but I'm not a pro rider. There is also the Suzuki RE5 and the Norton RC588 since rotary bikes are fun and odd.
The guy from bikes and beards will probably end up owning that thing. He seems to have an inexhaustible amount of money to buy any weird motorcycle he wants
I'm one if those a-holes in the US😆😅🤣. At first I thought you were pretty corny but I've grown to love your content. You're a hell of a lot faster then I ever was and you produce some very clever and entertaining content.
I would love to see the Barber Museum get it. That was, the public would get a chance to see it. I really like Jay. I’ve met him twice. But his collection is private. The bikes at Barber… you can actually put your hands on them.
I wonder what the deisners and engineers at Norton back then were thinking??? Somethings overly complicated, yet others far too simple and not fit for purpose. O.k, this was the prototype, but I do wonder what they were thinking. I watched an old episode of Men and Motors, which is available on YT. The engine was on test and it went on to say that deliveries would start in June the following year. After seeing your work Allen,, I wonder what actual year, decade, century, deliveries would have actually been made. Keep up the great work.
What next? Please, no golf carts or wheel chairs (batteries). Nice work. I like the alternate technologies and applications. I grew up in Michigan watching channel 62 from Milan Drag Strip where the Michigan Mad Man on his one speed SBC Motorcycle.
Hey man ive got a 79 yz400 im getting rid of in the US very cool bike original chain sprockets tires and rims 0 dry rot i bought it offf the original owner that raced ama in 1980 and then put it up
Sorry to be a pedant, but KH250s didn't produce 32bhp, they were closer to 28, which usually meant around 26 at the rear. I've had a triple for 34 years, they're certainly one of the most iconic, crazy, but misunderstood types of bike ever made. But nowhere near as crazy as a 48 cylinder monster bike.
Hmm I sense a purely refined naturalist /purist with the doom and gloom of disparaging anything other than exactly how it came off showroom floor.....resistant to dynamic exponential changes, leaning towards a conservative point of view w not much abstract intellectual vigor to merit such a fallacy / cliche of the mind......Imo I'm a lefty, artistic, ambidextrous type with NO COMMON SENSE SO we Def gonna to not line up eye to eye upon aevery topic but ths what keeps it exciting and abrasive and raw and I'm liberal when it comes to unique, 1 off projects like this.....and I feel it's an excellent use of 48 motors if anything it shows how good quality those Ole school 2 strok Street bikes are, and acts as a advertisement in a sense displaying how good engineering g can lead to a machine like this being actually.functionable and rideable
Wow.....God forbid it runs a bit rich and fouls a plug........or.....plugs'ssss that is....I'd hate to be the guy who has to find which plug is fouled!!!.......lol
@macmclemore yes I did the fella riding the bike only rode for a few pathetic yards and did not turn the bike its unrideable also once its hot how much damage in burns would it do to your body you need to engage your brain before you write something or use your wallet buy it a prove me wrong
I posted i guess in the other 48 cylinder thread. In the vid it shows total capacity of 4.2 litres...how? 48 x 250cc =12000 or 12 litres so where did my maths fail. Graeme in Sydney
Anyone that actually rode this would look like a burnt marshmallow afterwards I would think. If you ever rode the Z1 3cyl 2stoke you would understand. I and anyone will tell ya hot hot the engine and pipes get and looking at this Frankenstein I would think shake and bake would be a new nickname for the bike.
You see something like this and you probably instantly think yeah murca 😂 nice to see the british going crazy with a bike engine (id still rather have a dodge tomahawk) 🤷🏻♀️🙈😂😂😂 On another note, imagine trying to pull a wheelie with this bike 😂😂 also you should try and get this as a dlc bike on GTA 🤩
