Originally Posted by jbabbington
Diesel? Man, If I had a diesel motorcycle, I would run it off of discarded vegetable oil, lowering my commute cost, well, not by much, but I would love to run a motorcycle off of BioD.
Keeps spinnging!
Glad the motorcycle handles well. I wouldn't have thought of that. I never rode a Harley, though I sat on one once. It seemed to have an incredibly low centre of gravity in comparison to my old BMW.
On the diesel bike thing LOL - you just need to up the compression ratio from about 6 or 7 : 1 to about 19:1 or a touch more and rig up some high pressure fuel injector. You basically need to get the fuel pressure up to about 1800 psi and then meter it accurately in a momentary burst. Then you can strain the contents of your kitchen fryer into the petrol tank and 'voila' away you go at 200 miles to the gallon. Miles and miles for free and no money for the Sheiks!
