Diesel motorbike – Smart Tiger

I figure there’s enough odd people in STW, so someone is bound to appreciate this. 🙂

Diesel motorbike – Smart Tiger

Look at that sump – should be fun when he hits a pothole or speed bump.

Apart from that it looks very ugly and I cant see how a diesel would imporve a bike at all.

There is a commercial bike using the same motor:

It’s a work in progress. I think the sump has been changed.

The engine will be hidden by the fairing when completed.

It doesn’t take much to improve a Triumph. 🙂

It doesn’t take much to improve a Triumph.

True. The only good thing about the old tiger was the engine…

That could be good as my next commuter (not the Tiger, the other one) I’m going to take a look at that, bet the cost is ridiculous. Not too pretty from the front but the older I get the more practicality & economy appeal.

Surely you mean ‘It’s hard to improve a Triumph’?

Ask the risk of sounding like a POV contributor

Why, oh why, oh why?

jota180 – Member
…Why, oh why, oh why?

Better still, why not?

Wouldn’t do it to a Laverda though. 🙂

Why, oh why, oh why?

Shit loads of torque

Sump redone…

The economy had better be astronomical 🙂

Wouldn’t do it to a Laverda though

please, I’ll be up all night with cold tremors

Price: £9450

For that, yeah right!

Beauty is in the eye ……….. etc.

http://www.dieselbike.net/privateconversions/privateconversionsS-Z.htm

Beauty is in the eye

Must be blind then!

I reckon an old BMW would make a nice diesel. Modify the heads, pistons from a suitable diesel, turbo etc.

The kind of people who’d appreciate one would still get +60mpg out of a 1050 Triumph, based upon my no-effort 53mpg from my Sprint GT, and probably comparing power its nearer to the performance of a 500 anyway, which do way more mpg.

Can’t really see the point (at the moment) of a diesel bike.

does 100mpg does it not?

Wasn’t the a firm in the UK built diesel trail bikes for the US military a few years back? Seem to remember it was for logistics then so they would only need one type of fuel for all their different vehicles

I actually quite like the look of them and there must be masses of torque

It was a modified KLR.

I like the look of the production diesel bike, that Tiger is too much of a compromised bodge. The thought of running a bike on recycled (ha!) cooking oil has a lot of appeal.

120mpg, not to be sniffed at.

– unless it’s used cooking oil. 🙂

The US military aimto have single theatre tactical fuel, so they have been trying to convert everything inc. bikes to run on it

My brother who is a motor engineer in Detroit (he built Hummer 2!) has just joined a small co who are developing a flat four, two stroke diesel engine. The really interesting bit is that in place of the cylinder heads it has secondary pistons, which come down and oppose the main pistons like a Deltic engine. Can’t find the animation for the mo, sorry.

My brother who is a motor engineer in Detroit (he built Hummer 2!) has just joined a small co who are developing a flat four, two stroke diesel engine. The really interesting bit is that in place of the cylinder heads it has secondary pistons, which come down and oppose the main pistons like a Deltic engine. Can’t find the animation for the mo, sorry.

IIRC Thats how the old London bus engines worked – 2 stroke diesel with 2 pistons in a common cylinder.

Anyone got a pic of the US army diesel Kawasaki?

OOH-RAH!

The US military aimto have single theatre tactical fuel, so they have been trying to convert everything inc. bikes to run on it

Not just the US. The British military had diesel Harley Davidson (I think) trials bikes for years. They were mostly rubbish and needed the strength of Garth to pick them up if they were dropped.

The British military had diesel Harley Davidson (I think) trials bikes for years.

It wasn’t diesel or a trials bike. Or that heavy. It did on occasion sport a harley davidson badge but it was made by Armstrong.

Its quite a big niche – Hatz diesels into BMW sidecar outfits seem popular, must be good for long distance tourers, I’ve seen a German plated one down in Greece. Not so sure how good they’d be in sports bikes though.

Loads more here:

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The British military had diesel Harley Davidson (I think) trials bikes for years.

It wasn’t diesel or a trials bike. Or that heavy. It did on occasion sport a harley davidson badge but it was made by Armstrong.

Yep REME used to send their trainees on the 3 stage events I used to do, boy those bikes were bullit proof but right brutes to ride, used to feel so sorry for them.

Shock announcement: Harley Davidson have finally admitted they need to develop a water-cooled engine. My bro interviewed for the job but it would have meant a move to Milwaukee and since he’s $40,000 in negative equity on the wooden shack that’s called a house in the US, he couldn’t afford to move.

Shock announcement: Harley Davidson have finally admitted they need to develop a water-cooled engine.

What, another one? This will be no 4.

It’s not that HD don’t want to make them but their ageing customers don’t want to buy them.

Shock announcement: Harley Davidson have finally admitted they need to develop a water-cooled engine.

“Finally”? They’ve had one for about a decade now in the VRSC.