Of course its one!

Ask any rider in the developing world, one is all you need to go anywhere

in agreement are trials riders, speedway riders, enduro riders

a large number of adventure riders, even lots of pizza delivery riders

maybe two cylinders are more your style, a bigger adventure bike, or street touring and race bikes

Three cylinders are more of a rarity except for the modern Triumph that ADVriders are familiar with

but they do exist

four cylinders again more common than three, and have been since the early days of motorcycling

How about 5 cylinders? Anyone? They do exist, a radial motored board tracker was built with five cylinders, if you want to see an example in perfect condition then you need to travel to England and the Sammy Miller Museum

Six cylinders the obvious answer is the Honda CBX or the Goldwing as mass production version, but how about the V6 Horex

Seven cylinders, step up America’s bad boy andinmate Jesse Jamesand a one off custom radial engined bike called Radial Hell

Eight cylinders, of course you think of the Boss Hoss, but what about Glenn Curtiss V8 record holding bikeI wrote about hereor a not so well dressed V8 motorcycle rider as an alternative option

Nine cylinders? Of course why not!

Ten cylinders, the Dodge Viper powered Tomahawk of course

Eleven cylinders just don’t exist but of course, 12 cylinder bikes do but are rare and more cylinders are even rarer. A 24 cylinder bike was built using chainsaw motors

If you are sitting there thinking more is better then you think along the same lines as Simon Whitlock who built a 48 cylinder motorcycle called Tinker Toy and he explains itin great detail in this short documentaryAnd what it sounds like running …