This might just be our most eclectic Sunday round-up yet. We start with a Guinness World Record-holding 48-cylinder Kawasaki two-stroke, then look at a Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 café racer from Mumbai. Rounding out our list are an untouched 1995 BMW R100GS PD and an MV Agusta go-kart (yes, really).
Whitelock 4.2-liter 48-cylinder Kawasaki Simon Whitelock has a particular penchant for Kawasaki triples and has been building one-off motorcycles since 1985. Like any drug, vice, or level of insanity, Whitelock started easy and casual, by first building an inline four-cylinder Kawasaki two-stroke from other engines. After that, it was a nine-cylinder ‘triple-triple’ and an inline seven-cylinder.
They were all Kawasakis and all two-strokes. But this addiction needed feeding, and this is what led to the Guinness Book of World Record-holding 48-cylinder Kawasaki two-stroke you’re looking at here.…