Archive for 'Diesel Motorcycle' Category
Diesel motorcycles set speed records
13 September 2005Hayes Diversified Technologies, makers of the upcoming Bulldog, set some new diesel motorcycle speed records at the International Speed Trials by BUB.
Diesel records set:
Division A, Type III, Class 1, Kilometer, 154.392 km/h, mile, 95.875 mph
Division A, Type IV, Class 1, Kilometer, 167.893 km/h, mile, 104.512 mph
Division B, Type III, Class 1, Kilometer, 163.709 km/h, [...]
2006 D650A1 Bulldog Diesel Motorcycle
6 September 2005Everyone seems to be talking about all of the new 2006 motorcycles coming out but here’s one that isn’t getting as much coverage and right now it probably should get a lot more. This is the D650A1 Bulldog diesel motorcycle. It isn’t quite the sportbike that the Thunder Star would be but then, the Thunder [...]
Star Twin responds to Thunder Star questions
6 July 2005We’ve been trying to sort out all of the numbers being tossed around about the Thunder Star 1200 TDI diesel motorcycle. The more we looked, the less sure we were of anything. Close examination of several magazine writeups revealed different numbers within the same article! For instance, Streetfighters magazine had both 180 kilometers per gallon [...]
Thunder Star Diesel update and questions
25 June 2005Lots of folks (Thanks, Make blog, Real Tech News, Treehugger, Metaefficient and a lot more) picked up on our biodiesel motorcycle post the other day where I mentioned the possibility of combining biodiesel with the performance of the Thunder Star 1200 TDI.
It does seem a few misread what I said, I have [...]
Biodiesel motorcycles
13 June 2005When I first started writing about diesel motorcycles it struck me as a bit unusual, I really wasn’t aware of some of the latest advances in adapting diesel engines to a motorcycle frame but of course, the Thunder Star 1200 got me thinking about the possibilities. That bike gets 150mpg and looks like it should [...]
TDI Diesel mpg claims may be true
2 March 2005After questioning the 150mpg claims of the Thunder Star TDI sportbike the other day I did a little research on the subject. It seems the TDI technology is pretty popular in Europe and VW claims their 3 cylinder TDI diesel gets 90mpg, and that’s in a car! The problem with TDI over here in the [...]
150mpg motorcycle?
26 February 2005Just following up on yesterday’s post about the Thunder Star because I was rereading that article in Sport Rider. They toss in one statistic that I find pretty amazing, almost to the point of unbelievable. The Thunder Star gets 150mpg! It’s in the article and on the cover so it isn’t a typo, of course [...]
Thunder Star 1200 Diesel by Star Twin
25 February 2005Stop the presses! er… stop the keyboards, I love this! Star Twin, a company over in Holland, has designed and built the Thunder Star 1200 TDI Sportbike. This is a 1200cc, three cylinder turbocharged direct injection diesel. They started with a 3 cylinder diesel engine from the VW Lupo, redesigned numerous parts using SolidWorks 3D [...]
