Diesel bikes?
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Hltoppr
El Gringo Spectacular!
IIRC the military has been using a Kawasaki KLR diesel for years. Rumor has it that a civilian model may be available in 2006 sometime....6gal. tank....100mpg.
www.f1engineering.com
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www.f1engineering.com
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Ursidae69
Traveller
I bookmarked this site a while bike. I can totally see me on a diesel duel sport someday. :jumping:
http://www.dieselmotorcycles.com/home.htm
http://www.dieselmotorcycles.com/home.htm
Colorado Ron
Explorer
yea but their asking price?? $18grand! I can buy ALOT of gas for the difference!
underdog
New member
I was at a BMW rally a couple of summers ago and there was a guy there on a Royal Enfield 500CC Diesel. Single cylinder and he said it produced 6HP and got about 90mpg. He said he rode it to Colorado from the east coast over the coarse of several weeks at a cruising speed of 45mph. Sounded like it was a POS. He was constantly having to repair and cobble together broken pieces. It was definitely not an adventure bike (I suppose having to ride cross country on an unreliable bike could be construed as an adventure) but interesting nonetheless. The Enfields are being built again in India using the same tooling as the original British Enfields from the '50s but I've heard that the metallurgy isn't nearly as good (I don't think it was all that good to begin with 
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Hltoppr
El Gringo Spectacular!
underdog said:I was at a BMW rally a couple of summers ago and there was a guy there on a Royal Enfield 500CC Diesel. Single cylinder and he said it produced 6HP and got about 90mpg. He said he rode it to Colorado from the east coast over the coarse of several weeks at a cruising speed of 45mph. Sounded like it was a POS. He was constantly having to repair and cobble together broken pieces. It was definitely not an adventure bike (I suppose having to ride cross country on an unreliable bike could be construed as an adventure) but interesting nonetheless. The Enfields are being built again in India using the same tooling as the original British Enfields from the '50s but I've heard that the metallurgy isn't nearly as good (I don't think it was all that good to begin with
I think every Enfield is cobbled together....diesel or not...
That being said...I'll probably get a 350 for an around town bike at some point...they are true POS bikes, but the cool, retro factor is high...
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lionsbreath
Adventurer
I ride a 06 klr and chat alot on klr650.net there is a lot of info on there on oil burning klrs'
dhackney
Expedition Leader
underdog said:
This might technically be true, but you can sure have some adventures on them...
Buddhist monks & novices, Phodong, Sikkim
Regarding production, they never stopped producing them in India and haven't changed a thing since the 30s or whenever they were designed, except IIRC for the material used to braze one oil line.
Incredibly underpowered at 12k ft going over the Himalayan passes and there is absolutely zero braking, and I mean less than zero when two up with pannier boxes and a tank bag.
Makes for some interesting moments when you come around the downhill hairpin at max velocity with no real means to reduce it and see this:
Does that qualify as an adventure?