Engineering Wonder: Home Built 10-Cylinder Radial Two-Stroke! - gallery

Bistella 500

A home-built, 10-cylinder, twin star radial, vertical crankshaft, two-stroke engine in a home-made chassis. Show off!

It Starts With A Drawing

And that's the easy part

Multiple Superchargers

Each cylinder is fed by a mixture compressed by a miniature roots-type supercharger

Then Build the Rest...

Virtually the whole bike was home-built. Even the script is gold leaf!