Spotted a diesel bike.... views?

martyn107 · Scooby Slapper Joined: 15 Apr 2013 Karma :

Hello all, I spotted this diesel bike in Chesterfield. Never seen one before so just wondered your views?

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Wafer_Thin_Ham · Super Spammer Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Karma :

Heavy and pointless?
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martyn107 · Scooby Slapper Joined: 15 Apr 2013 Karma :

Yeah was talking to my dad and brother about it, we came up with the same impression.

t121anf · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Karma :

If you get a fuel leak do you skid off and die?

Wafer_Thin_Ham · Super Spammer Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Karma :

Seems rather complicated too, I wonder what it's like to ride?
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martyn107 · Scooby Slapper Joined: 15 Apr 2013 Karma :

I do imagine it sounding a bit like a truck as it drives past. The engine characteristics will be really strange I think.

CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

It's the best looking diesel bike I've seen.

I cant make out the tag by the indi though.

martyn107 · Scooby Slapper Joined: 15 Apr 2013 Karma :

It just said Track.

CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

BOOM MOFOS!

https://www.dieselmotorfiets.nl/

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Andy_Pagin · World Chat Champion Joined: 08 Nov 2010 Karma :

Could it be this?
https://www.gizmag.com/go/4272/

If you were doing 18000 miles a year that would save you about a grand a year over a petrol 600. So not entirely pointless.
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martyn107 · Scooby Slapper Joined: 15 Apr 2013 Karma :

I use enough diesel for my car for work..... quite like the smell of petrol lol

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Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

Same weight as a Bandit 650SA. I wouldn't have either, but some folk can get on with them.
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clancy · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Karma :

Good grief that's ugly !

My only diesel experiences have been vans and they are not wgat youd call a smooth engine Laughing

so does it run lumpy as shit ?
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martyn107 · Scooby Slapper Joined: 15 Apr 2013 Karma :

Lets hope for who ever owns it that is does!

1cyl · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

Just needs full akra system Thumbs Up

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Shaft · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Dec 2010 Karma :

I think that doesn't look bad, better than a lot of lash ups that try to make it to production.

Trouble is, according to their website, they've now called it a day, just 3 left and that's the end.

I imagine the e19500 (ex tax) price tag hasn't helped.
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sidewinder · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Karma :

If that's the one I'm thinking its powerd by a diesel from a smart car Thumbs Up

ocatoro · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Sep 2012 Karma :

ugly as shit.. but diesel tech has come miles in cars... only a matter of time surely before they become more usable in bikes?

who wouldn't want a nice torquey bike with 100mpg? (plucked that figure out of thin air, obviously... )
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CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

I can't see why people are hating the look.

It's an adventure bike, not a sports bike.

I would chuck a belly pan of sorts on it though, and maybe paint the engine black.

https://i.imgur.com/E5B5ueH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/MzeJg0c.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zPhj8qJ.jpg

bladerunner · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Karma :

About time someone else tried a derv bike...the torque could be amazing let's face it le mans car racers laughed at the derv entry from audi a few years back....then got their arses kicked! Not a sports bike type engine granted but for tourers and hogs and the such....derv tech has come on a lot in the last decade!
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i.p.phrealy · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Oct 2012 Karma :

the vibration from that must be a real ballache.
why else would you have a cushion on your seat?
apart from piles.
...or butthurtz from people taking the piss out of you for buying a diesel bike! Laughing

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