Diesel engined bikes?
 

spotted in ubg yesterday, a company has finally made a diesel engines motor bike to be commisioned for army and mod use.....85mpg and top speed 85mph ...sounds interesting....imagine the torque

A mate of mine is a army mec and he's said that they are a tad unreliable. Spends a lot of time 'recovering' them after the engines blow up from a few hundred miles.

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Imagine the vibes.................... :lol:

are they made by ducati (hehehehe)

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True, but at least they'd be a step up for Harley riders! :wink:

Yeah, BMW are making those things. You'd be retorquing fastners every stop light tho'

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I thought they were diesel :oops:




:wink:

What, the riders? :wink:

Right, people don't actually ride motorcycles, they're just for show... why should the military be any different?

They've not done this for the 'coolness' factor, it's for logistics. If the bikes are deisel that means all tehir vehicles are deisel and therefore they only have to carry one type of fuel. The disadvantages of unreliability are being ignored becuase it cuts down on the lack of petrol in the army problem