A 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 [...]
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Diesel Motorcycle
With 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 [...]
Well that didn’t take long. Right on the heels of the Audi diesel winning Sebring, Bruce wrote in with a few details of his homemade diesel powered bobber chopper.
The build started when his son began a science project on renewable fuels. When they got caught up in the idea of making their own fuel [...]
One of our readers was kind enough to draw our attention to the fact that Star Twin has made an English version of their brochure for the Thunder Star 1200 available at their website. The text is below but you can view the pdf version of the brochure by following the link.
Thanks, Anders!
Thunder Star [...]
We write about diesel motorcycles a lot around here, there’s the Thunder Star of course, the D650A1 Bulldog now going into production, the Roush diesel ATV and we mentioned the biodiesel Royal Enfield several days ago. Performance varies all across the spectrum, but if we use the term “diesel fueled” motorcycles, we can add one [...]
Cruising the listings on ebay I found this 350cc diesel Royal Enfield Bullet. A company out in Colorado promoting the use of biodiesel imported the bike and use it as a demonstrator.
This is obviously no hot rod, but on the other hand, it will run on biodiesel or straight vegetable oil, pretty neat. If [...]
Yesterday we noted the pricing and ordering information for the new Bulldog diesel coming out next year and we’ve written many times about the Thunder Star 1200, an exciting and capable bike with great performance. There are a number of other small companies designing and building diesel bikes, too, but where are the major manufacturers? [...]
Hayes Diversified Technologies, makers of the D650A1 Bulldog diesel motorcycle have announced pricing and ordering details for the Bulldog. It’s a little pricey but diesels ordinarily command a premium in other vehicles, too, combined with high demand along with development costs to consider so it’s not too surprising. They’re also including things like a special [...]
Kickboxer Subaru WRX Powered Motorcycle Concept
