diesal bikes

[jabba]

Anyone heard anything heard it through a mate that ducati and kawasaki are developing diesal powered bikes??? Think the kwaks are the next generation of gt's be interesting might even be turbo'd. I know other companys have tried it over the years but mass produced might be interesting.

[GreatBritishRob]

There was a British company that developed diesel engines for the Kawasaki KLR650 for the American Marines to use. They use em quite a bit apparently.

[jabba]

Hayes to produce and sell a street version of its diesel motorcycle, called the D650-A1LE Bulldog!

Hayes Diversified Technologies, the designer and manufacturer of the Kawasaki KLR650-based M1030M1 JP8/Diesel Military Motorcycle, has announced that due to overwhelming response, they will produce a limited run of diesel motorcycles for sale.

Cool your right just found it. Make getting lost in the hills more fun

[Shifty]

Anyone heard anything heard it through a mate that ducati and kawasaki are developing diesal powered bikes???

Enfield did it years ago

Not exactly hi tech though :D

[eigerton]

Enfield did it years ago

wasn't it an adapted lawnmower engine that chucked out 8hp ?

[gothtec]

Diesel engine chuck out a purr rate of 27 cycles a second at tickover, the same as your average cat...

So can I run a bike on chip fat?

[gixerkarl]

there was a bike in awol years ago that had a deisel cement mixer engine in it with i think,a pre unit gear box :)
youd definatlly be running it on red though,who would cheack????

[floris]

Spotted this one few years ago on R&S, based on a Industrial Wacker plate diesel engine. Bolted in some Honda frame I guess? It was really wonderful to see the engine shake like a washmachine in the rubbers :p

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5053/ratoddity01ep8.jpg

[excalibur]

Diesel engine technology has come on that much recently, I am surprised that the japs havent come up with a derv powered bike.

We sell a van at work, 2.5 diesel, which kicks out 174bhp.......that is more than the old V8 Rover engine.

In 5 years time when a few of these type of motors are getting scrapped/crashed, they would make great trike fodder

[Friar Tuck]

Enfield used a proprietary engine called the "Robin" but buggered if I can remember the manufacturer! I think it was an italian company.......


Lombardini...... That's it! I think.

[J Top]

I saw a write up in a bike mag last year about a french company starting up making diesel bikes. The owner got a national award for putting the french motorcycle industry back on the map
J Top

[Friar Tuck]

Did the french ever have a bike industry then???

[J Top]

Sorry, just googled, it is German. The Neander, a 1400cc parallel twin diesel turbo.
595lbs 129ftlbs torque.
The french bike was the Voxan, a petrol
Neander sounds like Neanderthal.
J Top

[bear]

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_bikes.html


http://www.realclassic.co.uk/diesel05112800.html


http://www.dieselbike.net/royalenfield.htm


some sites with information about diesel bikes... couldnt find the one with the KLR frame that the military are apparently using but remember them saying it would cost upward of 17k as there were only a limted number made.

[Parky]

I read about a Diesel bike in Streetfighters a year or so ago, it took the engine out of a Diesel VW Lupo a 3 cylinder thing. they recased it so it looked like a bike engine and mated it to an FJ1200 gearbox with the clutch converted to work dry.

Other than recasing the engine there was no modification work done to the original donor the internals are identical and the electronics are straight out of the car too. They then went on to built a sports type bike out of it that did 186kpg i think it was and its acceleration and top end were impressive too as this is a turbo engine. They were looking for somone to manufacture and develop the bike for production purposes but i havnt heard anything about it since.

[johnr]

guy called ernie dorset used to fit single pot cement mixer engines to enfields, would only do 50mph, but still returned between 150 and 200mpg!!, then enfiels did the same using an engine from a comp[any called robin, same idea, single pot thumper but obviously being a factory bike was much better finnished. thereve been a few french bikes using peugeot and citroen car diesel motors but these have been mainly built as sidecar outfits. nicest one i ever saw was a bmw boxer rolling chassis and gearbox, fitted with a 3 cylinder 1000cc turbodiesel engine from a diahatsu charade car, in the car it could achieve almost 100mpg, and in the bike, the owner reconned it had similar poke to the standard 1000cc bike engine it replaced. theres a similar one doing the rounds in the uk, and the same guy also built one with a ford fiesta 1.6 oilburner engine.

[Louis]

The Dhiatsu diesel engined bike belongs to hadyn from the scavengers mcc in bolton and won a rat bike prize at faro in 2005
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i239/Louis_cropper/IMG_0011.jpg

[pepperami]

Been looking at diesel powered bikes with great interest particularly as I have started making biodiesel to run the landy on. The one developed for military looks pretty cool and has a tank range of around 400 miles!! Maybe I'll have to look at picking up a diesel engine for one of the old GPZ frames I have!!

[wurzel]

Got a mate who is in planning stage - he has an XS frame, the bottom end from a gpz900r and is hunting a daihatsu charade diesel engine for sensible money.

[r30]

heres a video of the military diesel bike http://www.janes.com/defence/land_forces/video/m1030m1_diesel_motorbike.shtml http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/02/26/150mpg-motorcycle/

[Spike]

Nice loking bike :)