Archive for 'Diesel Motorcycle' Category
Gray Eagles Build a Turbo Diesel Harley Davidson
4 March 2008What happens when a group of retired Harley Davidson engineers and executives plus a few other retired gearheads get together? Well, you might see some guys playing golf, or then again, you might get a diesel Harley Davidson. These guys went the diesel route.
The Gray Eagles are a group of guys, one of which worked […]
How About Some Real Motorcycle Innovation?
4 January 2008Picture this, your buddies are dragging knees and pushing hard on their favorite canyon road, the familiar sound of inline 4 cylinder engines in everyone’s ears, then all of a sudden you’re there, no one heard you approach from behind and all they hear now is a bit of a high pitched whine. You’re […]
Neander Turbo Diesel Motorcycle is Introduced
27 September 2007The 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 […]
Hydrostatic Drive Diesel Motorcycle
22 May 2007Jeff 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 […]
Biodiesel Motorcycle - Die Moto from The Crucible
21 May 2007There’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 […]
Neander Turbo Diesel Motorcycle - update
27 March 2007The 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 […]
Royal Enfield Diesel Conversion
27 June 2006A little while back we mentioned a Royal Enfield for sale that was set up to run on biodiesel. Here’s a very well laid out website by Charles Altmann who shows you how to take a Royal Enfield Bullet, and after removing the gasoline engine, install a 406cc, single cylinder, direct injection Yanmar diesel or […]
Neander Turbo Diesel Motorcycle
19 June 2006With diesel engines gaining more of the spotlight, let’s take a closer look at another diesel, the Neander turbo diesel motorcycle. A number of readers have pointed out this bike before which has been around for a while in prototype form but their intention is to begin production in limited quantities later this year so […]
