Why There Aren't Diesel Motorcycles

Interesting so why doesn't Harley make a diesel motorcycle? They already have all the downsides

"Diesel costs ten percent less than gasoline." Lmfao that didn't age well.

i love how he stated several times how much simpler diesel is then explain several complications, but in short diesel is scalable up and gas down. That is why container ships run diesel but a lawnmower is gasoline. Also i ride my bike in quite cold weather and have to wait to build up heat to run properly, diesel is famous to have massive problems starting cold and take way too long to get to operating temperature. The biggest killer for diesel is short distance when you build up carbon deposits fast and dont bring it to temperature to burn it off.

The Enfield Taurus was popular in India's rural areas, where the customer's priorities are typically different. They're usually not looking for flash or speed, but reliability, low TCO, fuel efficiency, ruggedness, simplicity (easier repair etc.) and durability, and the Taurus offered all that in spades. I remember an auto magazine once jokingly saying that the Taurus would reliably give you 60 kmpl (kilometres per litre/ 226.8 mpg) no matter the load ("whether there was one person, two people or you were towing an ox with it" (or something like that)). Never rode it myself, but the petrol (gasoline) version of the Royal Enfield Bullet was a smooth, effortless cruiser.

KLR-650 bike the marine corps uses will run on either jet fuel or diesel. That’s not bad. For a few gallons of diesel and a box of crayons you can keep the bike and the rider fueled up and ready to go.

"Bikes have to be small and lightweight" *Harley Davidson*: "Am i a joke to you?"

I remember going on a fairly long ride on royal Enfield diesel once. Didn't feel any potholes on Indian roads.. mostly because the thud from the engine was constantly re-aligning my bones and changing the pace of my heart every now and then. 😅

When I was 15, I spoke with owner of a Royal Enfield Diesel. Swapped with an agro engine. Owner complained of weight and bad handling.

"in 2000, one year before I was born.." Fuck, I'm old.

A diesel conversion kit was available back in the 90's for Royal Enfield 350 cost was around 20000₹ that's roughly 270$

Man I’m a car guy and a bike guy, it makes me so happy to see donut and Jeremiah doing more bike vids! F2F FTW

+1 for the great education. My favorite compression raising trick is pushing the piston's crown into the heads, though that can only raise the compression ratio so far. I wonder if a sideways OP 2 -cyl engine would be a nice balance, get nice high compression ratios, & be able to rev higher from the shorter strokes....

"Some people might like a motorcycle that's loud and vibrates too much." Aren't those called Harleys?

The diesel Royal Enfield bullet is a legend in India for it's mileage. Edit:- thanks for the likes. 👁️👄👁️

Two acquaintance of mine had "Royal Enfield Taurus" both were satisfied with it's performance. Both were city users not long distance user. The time period when this bike was launched there was huge price difference between Diesel and Petrol. May be they are not using this bike anymore because of lack of spare parts. It's engine looked like and sounded like regular small agriculture water pump's engine.

Saw a homemade Diesel bike....used a frame from early 80's Enduro, and a one lung 16Hp diesel, then he used a golf cart trans and some custom machining to make use of the chain.

"Some people... Might like a motorcycle that's loud and vibrates their butts." I see Harley fans are getting some shade today :D

KLR650 Diesel dawg. But I'm pretty sure a KLR will run on moonshine anyways

great way of explaining things and really good animations!!!

15:03 It depends which tanks - for instance, turboshaft engines of M1 Abrams can run on practically everything, from JP-8 aviation kerosene to even perfumes. For those who don't know, turboshaft engine is a modified version of a jet engine, but with enormous turbine. It's extremely fuel-hungry, but can run on practically any fuel and with practically any power output.