Much like all your favorite superheroes and supervillains, every mad shed-builder has an origin story. If I say the words "Kawasaki" and "two stroke" and "a nearly absurd number of cylinders," then chances are good that you might instantly picture the 48-cylinder Kawasaki Tinker Toy.
But before British shed builder Simon Whitelock built the Tinker Toy, which you can actually see running here, and which went on to fetch over $110K the last time it was up for sale, he built other things. Other classic Kawasaki two-strokes, even. Take, for example, a custom build he called the Kawasaki KH 606.
It's an inline-7-cylinder machine, carefully constructed from the remains of a pile of S1 250 Kawasaki engines. To build it, says Whitelock's friend Rick Brett, he of course had to modify pretty much everything else about the bike, starting with the frame. It, the seat, and the tank all ended up adding around four inches to their widths, right across the middle.
