By Colin Wood
Nov 12, 2024
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Volkswagen,
motorcycle,
Volkswagen TDI
Building a motorcycle from scratch? Why use just any motorcycle engine when you could use an engine from a car?
And why settle for a gas-powered engine when you could go with a diesel power plant instead?
Well, that's pretty much what YouTube channel BelarusCustoms is building: A motorcycle constructed around a 1.4-liter VW TDI engine.
Based on the beginning of the first video, the motorcycle appears to run. Part 1 can be watched above, and you can view part 2 here and part 3 here.
11/12/24 4:21 p.m.
This scares me....but also intrigues me at the same time.
11/12/24 10:24 p.m.
I had a dream (nightmare) about something similar. All these obnoxiously loud Harleys that were also rolling coal. Ugh!
11/13/24 8:38 a.m.
That's interesting. The military had some diesel kawasawki's back in the day for scout work. They seem to be hard to keep running now and rare.
11/13/24 9:39 a.m.
There was a local guy here in the Minneapolis area who built a diesel sport bike some years ago. If I remember correctly he used an engine out of a Bobcat loader or something similar. His bike was pretty well engineered and sorted out.
11/13/24 1:52 p.m.
Lets just hope it's a electric start. At 16/1 CR , you'd have to be Andre the Giant to kick start it.
11/13/24 2:29 p.m.
I'm mostly curious how the transmission is going to hold up to actually utilizing that torque.
11/13/24 2:41 p.m.
India had some diesel motorcycles , Taurus or Royal Enfield Bullet was one
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