diesel motorcycles

[moosiah]

Hi ya'll  long time no write to........ So have any of you seen the Dutch diesel street /sport bike ?? it's based on all Lupo 3 cyl internals and ECM .....  80hp @ 4500 now ,,,, 120 hp - 250ftpd tq @ 5500 rpm to come. 150 mpg too! they started w a lupo motor, and now they have made a new block to suit the diff needs of a bike engine/trany unit . Weight ? 450 lbs . I've seen a few diesel bikes on the web , the fastest use 1.9 td engines  ( the Dieselfighter!!!!) Alot use 2 cyl genny engines in beemer frames....... slooooooow !!!!!!! but good mileage....... and unbreakable......  and heavy ..... the marines now have a dieselbike based on the kawa KLR 650... 37hp 200mpg and it's built in the USA huwaa!!!!!!

[VWRacer]

Do you have a link to the Dutch diesel bike?

[MacGyver]

Yep, there's this thread on TDI Club:
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=945346&an=0&page=0#945346
...which in turn has this good link:
http://www.vw3literlupoclub.com/1200_TDI_motorfiets.html

I bought the March issue of 'Sport Rider', has a decent article on the bike.
Seems pretty cool

As for the military bike, F1 Engineering appears to be building them:
http://www.f1engineering.com/diesel%20bike%20specs.html

They used to have another page dedicated to the development of a civilian version, but they appear to have given up on that idea due to lack of funding & interest :cry:
So if you know of a way I can get my own M1030M1, PLEASE let me know :!:

Edit:
VWRacer, just realized you're in SF area...wanna slip over to Hesperia & grab one of those military bikes for me?
How much weight will USPS ship anyway...? :wink:

Seriously, I wonder if/when/how ya might find one at a surplus auction someday?

[VWRacer]

Cool...thanks! Here's another link with a bunch of diesel motorcycles, including at elast one 1.6TD motorcycle!  :shock:

[Northern RD]

Yep, there's this thread on TDI Club:
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=945346&an=0&page=0#945346
...which in turn has this good link:
http://www.vw3literlupoclub.com/1200_TDI_motorfiets.html

I bought the March issue of 'Sport Rider', has a decent article on the bike.
Seems pretty cool

As for the military bike, F1 Engineering appears to be building them:
http://www.f1engineering.com/diesel%20bike%20specs.html

They used to have another page dedicated to the development of a civilian version, but they appear to have given up on that idea due to lack of funding & interest :cry:
So if you know of a way I can get my own M1030M1, PLEASE let me know :!:

Edit:
VWRacer, just realized you're in SF area...wanna slip over to Hesperia & grab one of those military bikes for me?
How much weight will USPS ship anyway...? :wink:

Seriously, I wonder if/when/how ya might find one at a surplus auction someday?

Enfield India has been marketing a diesel bike based on a Rotax single for nearly 20 years now. It gets a claimed 350mpg but with a ground shaking 18HP it`ll take you a while to get there. In addition, they`re sold only in the home market of India,...
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[62 MPG]

Try this one http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_bikes.html

[VWRacer]

Oops! I forgot to inlude the link above...  :oops:

Try here: http://www.peace65.freeserve.co.uk/Pictures/privateconversionsI-Z.htm

[MacGyver]

Try this one http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_bikes.html

The last bike on that page, Harold Benich's Harley Davidson, is quite a piece of work.
Also seen here:
http://www.americanprofile.com/issues/20010930/20010930ne_1354.asp

I've seen this bike in person at a local diesel conversion gtg, and it's amazingly well put together.
The 3cly Perkins even retains close to the original HD sound
Honestly if you didn't know what you were looking at, you'd be hard pressed to tell anything special about it. Very nice work piecing it together

[moosiah]

Hi all.... The diesel Kawasaki KLR 650 is built by Hays Deveresified Technology in SoCal; they just shipped 500 bikes to the Marine Corp ,, the first of many to come!! F1 makes parts for HDT  and yes there is a planned civvi version to come......... count me in......