Engine Punk

Greater than the sum of its parts I would say While looking for a photograph of something else the other day, I came across an old smudge of this. Continuing the search for whatever it was - whatever that was escapes me now as it escaped me then - I found another photograph of this motorcycle, which intrigued me sufficiently in the good old/bad old days of 135mm films and SLR cameras to expend four whole frames on it. Horizontally inclined (as opposed to horizontally opposed) cylinders make a lot of sense to me. I am surprised there aren't more of them. I can't remember where or when I came across this machine but think it might have been at the Blackwater traction engine rally in the early 90s. The engine consists of two 125 Moto Rumi two-stroke twin engines. The result is a two stroke in line four with horizontal cylinders. As UJMs (Universal Japanese Motorcycles) go, across the frame fours are almost unremarkable but no Japanese manufacturer ever made a two-st...