Ever See a Diesel Motorcycle?

[66fyssh]

I haven't seen one until today.

My brother met the guy who built this thing today and sent me this picture. Said he's an artistic kind of guy!

 

[Tooljunkie]

Guy on orangetractortalks.com built a kubota powered bike...

 

[4spdragtop]

Lol I was at Princess Auto today, similar to Harbor Freight. They sell a gas engine powered Big Wheel! Cool toy for sure.

 

[Ddaddy]

The military has had them since 2005...

In 2005, the United States Marine Corps adopted the M1030M1, an off-road motorcycle based on the Kawasaki KLR650, and retrofitted it with an engine designed to run on diesel or JP8 jet fuel. Since other U.S. tactical vehicles like the HMMWV utility vehicle and M1 Abrams tank also use JP8, adopting a scout motorcycle which runs on the same fuel would ease logistics.

Further development by Cranfield University and California-based Hayes Diversified Technologies led to the production of the Kawasaki KLR650 based motorcycle for military use. The engine of this motorcycle is a liquid-cooled, single-cylinder four-stroke which displaces 584 cc.

 

[JoeSBP]

The diesel KLR is a huge POS and everyone hates it.

 

[BigBlockMopar]

I've always thought that trike-bikes 'stink', but this one adds actual stink to the smell-dimension.

 

[jimjimjimmy]

I haven't seen one until today.

My brother met the guy who built this thing today and sent me this picture. Said he's an artistic kind of guy!

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l can't say DEATH TRAP fast enough .

 

[JeffisOld]

The diesel KLR is a huge POS and everyone hates it.

That's a shame, I had a gas powered one for years and loved it!

 

[JoeSBP]

Yea the diesel was just too heavy and too under powered. Now it’s Christini 450’s and MRZR’s

 

[67Dart273]

Pffffssssfsfssfsssssssssssst!!!! The Germans.......and maybe others........had diesel recip aircraft during and likely before WWII I would not be surprised if there were diesel bikes back then!!

A Brief History of Diesel Motorcycles

"The first documented use of a diesel engine in a motorcycle was by Dutchman Jan Dopper who installed a Brons diesel engine into a bicycle he’d been given in 1904. The Brons engine produced a modest 2bhp at 700rpm. Jan Dopper improved the machine by creating a new frame of his own design and then in 1910 made a diesel tricycle. In post-war fifties Britain some prototype diesel bikes were made based on Nortons. The British used to quite enjoy their reputation for being eccentric and were not at all offended by the song “Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Midday Sun”. The first “mad Englishman” to build a diesel motorcycle was a gentleman named Tony Sidney from the coastal holiday town of Brighton. He created a 500cc aluminium single cylinder diesel engine with a cast iron head and fitted it into a Norton."

 

[Unconventional]

Lol I was at Princess Auto today, similar to Harbor Freight. They sell a gas engine powered Big Wheel! Cool toy for sure.

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Drift Trike .. They use go kart slicks on the rear and over the slicks they put PVC pipe of the appropriate size. Grab a fist full of throttle and sideways you go.

 

[mopardude318]

Guy on orangetractortalks.com built a kubota powered bike...

Are you a member of orangetractortalks? I'm on there once in a while. Also on tractorbynet.

 

[Tooljunkie]

Yup. Same handle.

 

[Dartfreak75]

Lol I was at Princess Auto today, similar to Harbor Freight. They sell a gas engine powered Big Wheel! Cool toy for sure.

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Rural king (simular to tractor supply) here in town has them too i want one!

 

[ocdart]

XtraPix: Government Issue - First Look

 

[Unconventional]

That good. They have the rescue chopper ready for when he doesn't make the corner at the edge of the flight deck.

 

[pishta]

The trikes in Philippines looked like diesels the way the smoked....and the gas was about as bad.

 

[diymirage]

Meh, diesel engine belong on farm implements