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The Sound and the Fury

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10 cylinder

2 rail

radial

2 stroke

500cc

hand built

motorcycle.

It used to be an old Jawa. Watch this video and tell me it doesn't renew your faith in the forward momentum of humanity. I have never heard a sound come out of a machine quite like that.
 

dmonkey

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The sound reminds me of a Hercules W2000 or Suzuki RE5 rotary, terrifying. It is awesome to see the process of building it. I follow this fellow, Allen Millyard, on YouTube who is also a fan of adding motorcycle cylinders together.
 

m in sc

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That radial is incredible, for sure. the 2 stroke guys have been going nuts over that thing.

The millyard stuff is top notch no doubt, ive been lucky enough to know a few people that own a few of his bikes, thru the kaw triple community, and have seen them ridden real world, they are nothing if not incredible. pretty amazing real world engineering at play. there used to be a video from 10? 15? yrs ago of him doing a 5 cyl mod on a set of s3 cases , live, at the London international motorcycle show, (time lapse) over 2 days. I havent been able to find it for a few years but its pretty incredible.
 
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The sound reminds me of a Hercules W2000 or Suzuki RE5 rotary, terrifying. It is awesome to see the process of building it. I follow this fellow, Allen Millyard, on YouTube who is also a fan of adding motorcycle cylinders together.
You can see a bunch of his bikes in person at the barber museum in Birmingham. I love his work too.

I wouldnt say the bistello sound reminds me of a re5 per se....its something else. Not a howl. Its more like an animal war cry. Like the machine gods are coming to take us all away. And that decel noise.....the crackling sounds like somebody let fly a rotary gun.
 
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