The Neander Turbo Diesel motorcycle is another new bike getting very close to seeing the light of day in production trim. The guys have been thrashing the prototype to make sure everything is in order:
Our team of test drivers allowed our prototype to taste the spring asphalt, by running it from Munich through France into Southern Spain and back.
Sounds like the prototype is running very well. Then they mentioned something else:
we have almost completed the chassis construction for the "real" NEANDER. With its full-grown wheel length of 1930 mm and the daunting twin-forks
Twin forks? I didn't notice that before, but then I wasn't watching constantly so this may have been out there for a while. If you go to their website, they have quite a few concept drawings showing the twin forks, no photos, though. Interesting. Is that a design feature only or is there a functional advantage of some sort?
The final form of the Neander will be shown this summer. I think quite a few folks have been waiting for this one, a turbo diesel cruiser that performs. Very cool. Now, if someone could just get the Thunder Star 1200 into production, we would have all of the bases covered in the diesel motorcycle world.
Link: Neander Motors
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Diesel bikes have me all fired up with visions of running on biofuels dancing in my head.
Chappy
The picture above is reminiscent of the Munch Mammoth in cruiser-trim.
The last base to cover is the adventure bikes.
Shouldn’t they all be diesel already?
PS. The dual fork tubes are cool if they do something and unnecessary weight if they just look cool. Though the cruiser guys rarely worry too much about five pounds here or there.
The added weight isn’t as bad as the added stiction. It would take quite a bump to get all those tubes sliding.
-todd
Twin forks? Why? What’s wrong with good old fashioned single forks?
I actually thought the prototype looked better, but then I never was a cruiser type fan.
Would that engine fit in a GS650 frame?
I see serious commuter potential here oil crisis? whatever. I think all this new thinking in the mc biz is awesome.Nice peice of equipment here