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Audi Diesel Wins Sebring

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If you were watching the race last night, you saw an Audi diesel win Sebring. The pitstops for the Audi were filled with photographers snapping pictures of the developing story. You could almost see and feel the enormous change in perception about to take place as millions of people realized the new word for performance was diesel. Diesel pickups have been a growing tide for … [Read more...]

Diesel Engines to Race LeMans

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Over in the auto world, the LeMans 24 hour race has a long and prestigious history where manufacturers are always pushing their new engineering and designs in hopes of winning. The advertising that results from a win can be an even bigger win. All of the car sites are talking at once about the new car Audi is running this year, the R10, and the item of interest to readers of … [Read more...]

Ethanol Diesel Fuel – O2Diesel

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TheKneeslider.com - Since we cover diesel motorcycles here, I thought it might be interesting to note this ethanol diesel blend called O2Diesel. I had never heard of this and ran across it yesterday. The benefits cited on their website are: * O2Dieselâ„¢ is a "fill and go" clean diesel technology available for centrally-fueled fleets in large urban areas plagued with … [Read more...]

Thunder Star 1200 brochure in English

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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 brochure Brochure text follows: A new motorcycle with … [Read more...]

Diesel Motorcycles – here’s a fast one

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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 more, the Y2K Superbike built by Marine Turbine … [Read more...]

Royal Enfield Biodiesel Motorcycle

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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 you make your own fuel, you could run this thing practically free. This … [Read more...]