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Title: diesel motorcycles
Post by: moosiah on March 02, 2005, 07:51:06 pm

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!!!!!!

Title: diesel motorcycles
Post by: VWRacer on March 03, 2005, 03:07:38 pm

Do you have a link to the Dutch diesel bike?

Title: diesel motorcycles
Post by: MacGyver on March 03, 2005, 03:25:18 pm

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 8)

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?

Title: diesel motorcycles
Post by: VWRacer on March 03, 2005, 06:15:29 pm

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

Title: diesel motorcycles
Post by: Northern RD on March 04, 2005, 10:10:25 am

Quote from: "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 8)

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,...
N.

Title: diesel motorcycles
Post by: 62 MPG on March 04, 2005, 10:47:53 pm

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

Title: diesel motorcycles
Post by: VWRacer on March 05, 2005, 07:17:35 am

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

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

Title: diesel motorcycles
Post by: MacGyver on March 05, 2005, 12:11:02 pm

Quote from: "62 MPG"

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 :P
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 8)

Title: diesel Marines
Post by: moosiah on March 19, 2005, 10:34:25 am

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......    :D