The promise of a production turbo diesel motorcycle has been long anticipated since we first saw photos and drawings of the prototypes and now Neander Motors is announcing the introduction of their first Neander Turbo Diesel motorcycle. The very first production unit will be on display at the international motorcycle show “Mondial du Deux-Roue” in [...]
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Diesel Engines
Popular Science magazine awarded Bruce Crower with an invention award for his six stroke engine, covered in The Kneeslider back in February of ‘06. Crower, founder of Crower Cams, retired from the company some years back but like many inventive types, he never really retired in the normal sense, he just kept tinkering and inventing [...]
Jeff Parker and Brian Okeefe work around hydraulic machinery everyday and have a knack for building some pretty interesting equipment. It turns out they’re interested in motorcycles, too, so after spending some time in the shop, they wondered how they might combine their knowledge of hydraulics with their love of motorcycles and the bike you [...]
There’s a group of folks called The Crucible, building all sorts of neat stuff out in Oakland, California. It looks like they’ve put together a biodiesel motorcycle with a couple of goals in mind. They want to promote the use of biodiesel and other bio fuels but they also want to set a new land [...]
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 [...]
Arctic Cat’s diesel ATV which began production in September of last year for European customers is slated for U.S. dealers this March. The diesel ATV, which has been approved for use with 6 kinds of diesel fuel, including biodiesel, has a 686cc 2 cylinder engine and has 30 percent better fuel economy than comparable gasoline [...]
Follow up and comments on stories we’ve mentioned before:
The Diesel Quad ATV developed for the military by Roush Technologies with plans for public sale through the Arctic Cat dealer network, has been tested for use with biodiesel. It is now approved for use with 6 types of diesel fuel, (#1 DF 1, #2 DF 2, [...]
UPDATE: They just raised it again. They broke their own 1 day old record and set a new mark at 350.092mph! Wow!
Following up on yesterday’s post, the JCB Dieselmax diesel powered streamliner set a new FIA world land speed record for diesel powered racers of 328.767mph. Just last week they set a new Bonneville record [...]
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