Why This Military Bike Is DIESEL

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[@shafferjoe1962]

Most KLR650 owners this bike is the holy grail of KLR's. I want one...

[@ShaunHensley]

Been hearing folks talking about it since about 2008 😂

[@alternator7893]

There’s 3 main reasons why companies don’t make diesel motorcycles. 1 They are heavier, 2 the heavier crankshaft and long powerstroke generates more gyroscopic thrust making them harder to lean into curves, and 3 the longer power stroke generates more vibration. But I would still love to own one ☝️

[@gertscheper9653]

and less power.

[@ItsDaJax]

They don't have to be heavier or have long strokes.

[@alternator7893]

@@ItsDaJax they don’t have to be heavier but since they can’t have an pcv valve, they need a sturdier crankcase. And, although it is the norm, they don’t necessarily need a longer power stroke. But they do need a heavier crankshaft and flywheel since they have higher compression ratios

[@terrytaylor4910]

How does egr = lighter crankcase? Wtf

[@alternator7893]

@@terrytaylor4910on a gasoline engine the pcv valve relieves pressure from the crankcase. Without it, that pressure builds up, thus the need for a sturdier crankcase. That pressure is also the primary reason why diesel engines tend to leak oil

[@ATomRileyA]

Would make a great apocalypse bike as you could run it on veg oil and such as well as diesel plus diesel does not go bad so quickly like gasoline. I bet that would respond well to turbocharging as its around 600cc and there are a lot of kei cars that are around that CC so could probably find a cheap correctly sized turbo to fit. Now i want one :)

[@SuperRede4u]

Or supercharged. The Japanese AMR 350 /500 series would be very easy to bolt on.

[@Xayuap]

of course

[@V8Lenny]

They did one turbocharged for Bonneville speed record.

[@timgooding2448]

Not sure why but I want one.

[@nikodemrak9867]

Me too

[@antonsamuelsson1317]

Anything on 2-wheels

[@ShadowOppsRC]

Open your wallet! Very cool but everybody wants one so in auction look at 15k or greater to win the bid.

[@CableWrestler]

They're not very reliable.

[@barnabasranch5415]

I have a KLR650, now I just need the diesel engine.

[@upsidedowndog1256]

I found an almost new 2001 regular version in 2021. While I can't burn jet fuel I must say Kawasaki got this bike right back in 1984. Tough as nails and will do almost anything a rider could want. The diesel version seems to be a study of frustration. Parts scarcity isn't the worst part, there is no maintenance manual on that version.

[@kodywalters9335]

Reminds me of a old hit and miss engine at idle

[@trainnerd3029]

Everything in the US military runs on the same fuel.

[@luxtempestas]

Eagle blood? Freedom sauce? Thoughts and prayers? 😂

[@audriusbaranauskas6227]

@@luxtempestas My buddy in the CIA told me it's actually barbecue sauce. Shhhh don't tell anyone.

[@zurielheros8872]

Freedom blood sounds better​@@luxtempestas

[@luxtempestas]

@@zurielheros8872 freedom farts!

[@honk5468]

so you watched the video and said exactly what he said?

[@Oddman1980]

Sweet, they made a KLR even MORE clanky. I wonder if they fixed the doohickey?

[@henrik6727]

"It knocks like nothing else in the world" - VisioRacer (2017)

[@cyrildrewery6654]

You always find interesting topics in the engine world. Thank you for all the effort you every time put in creating this nice content.

[@GUE5TPA55]

Miss the good ole days let's see some of your older ones re-done

[@mitchwagner2693]

Corps is pronounced as "Core" when used in English. Love your videos Visio!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Corpse😂😂

[@Bitrichcashpoor]

Idle sounds like meshuggah

[@bingusmctingus4395]

Sounds like a Briggs lawn mower

[@CarputingYT]

Love your channel interesting and good videos keep up the good work visioracer

[@TTTzzzz]

Petrol / gas goes bad after about 3 months. The injection system or carbs gets stuck by gum. Diesel keeps good for years.

[@gamtax]

Isn't biodiesel go bad after a month or two?

[@TTTzzzz]

@@gamtax If it's left for too long in a warm storage tank, it can grow mold. Conversely, if it is stored at temperatures that are too cold, it could thicken and become difficult to dispense. Biodiesel's high lubricity can create deposits in fuel lines, which in turn clogs filters and can lead to problems caused by poor fuel delivery. (I just asked google the question and got this answer).

[@rods6405]

Thats crap not in Australia my motor bikes lawnmowers and chain saws etc fire up every time after being left for 6months or more maybe the petrol in your area is crap

[@TTTzzzz]

@@rods6405 Thank you for your nicely worded reply. Perhaps you have not used your mower and bike enough. I does take a while before enough gum builds up to 'crap' your engines.

[@Terraceview]

@@rods6405 My old Merc still has 2 yr old 98 in the tank, starts up every week no issues.

[@bobhill3941]

Very cool, I always wondered about these. Thanks for another great video. Just out of interest, because it's an N/A diesel, I found it makes 33 ft lbs @ 4,200 rpm.

[@Tom-wl9sx]

Have heard about this bike before but your video explain everything about it. Keep on with the good work 🙂

[@rogerlafaille9938]

Awsome vid as always 💪

[@dadgarage7966]

Another great story on obscure motive power technology.

[@DamnItCarl-]

Rode these a few times at trials and development while serving many years ago. 👌

[@Mach5Johnny]

I’d love to build a dakar bike out of one of those

[@boery87]

Really like the 2 moto morini 3 1/2 in the clips😂

[@elektro3000]

I'd love to put a centrifugal supercharger on one of these. Still not going to be big power, but maybe 50 hp would probably make this fun for riding on the road.

[@TheSlowDude]

Awesome, thanks again

[@_Nobody_Special]

This thing would be a wheelie monster with that low down diesel grunt.

[@Hereford567]

Now I want one too. That mph would be fantastic here in Australia

[@joshfoley8862]

Great video! I would imagine having a quiet motorcycle that doesn't smoke would be a sticking point for military use. No?

[@PaulG.x]

Many militaries are looking at , or already using electric bikes. Military operations do not really need long range . Many of the other military vehicles only have modest ranges , except for the transporters that get them to the point of opreations.

[@lqr824]

5:10 wow, it even has cup-holders!

[@grancitodos7318]

They are for the Burk to Burktown race.

[@ramishrambarran3998]

I bet that a home-install, using a all-purpose Yanmar or Kubota engine on a KLR would.end up better than the Hayes Diversified Technologies mod !!!

[@uzzisalomon6230]

Also possible to use the Smart CDI engine. 799ccm, 100nm, 41Hp and runs easy 300.000+ km

[@bharat1366]

Father of my friend had Royal Enfield Taurus (Diesel Bullet). It sounds so different and had fuel consumption of 80 km/litre.

[@ShaunHensley]

188 miles per gallon

[@EverydayBronco-dh8hs]

The Bearded Mechanic got one, I wonder how he feels about it?

[@paulreilly3904]

Performance Diesels are wonderful

[@ujmrider]

I'm a fan of the mpg's

[@thematrixwillfindyou]

I’d love to own that bike , it’s extremely cool just to imagine a off-road bike that runs on diesel !

[@DumbOrangeFrog]

The motorcycle is dropping a sick beat

[@dakshsharma4946]

Does it take b100 biodiesel?

[@imamsorong9]

Cocok untuk kendaraan sy ke sekolah ketika musim hujan jalanan becek dan berlumpur

[@DaveBegotka]

The KLR is rock solid but not for racing.....

[@xox945]

Owning a KLR, I'd love to know much much heavier this made it. Mine is at 455 pounds...

[@allencrider]

Uh-oh . . .British engineering.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

They should have consulted Allen Milyard!

[@Flies2FLL]

I want to build a minibike using a cheap frame/fork/wheels and centrifugal clutch, paired with a cheap 3.5 hp pull start diesel single from Amazon.....

[@F14foreverF14]

Sounds like a Tuk-Tuk 🤣

[@DanteTheAbyssalBeing]

Guessing no emissions equipment, being a military bike? It's cool to see stuff still being built that'll outlive humans, in a time when most vehicles are a throw away item.

[@rjung_ch]

I'd take one for sure, not at 18k, but think it is a good all rounder.

[@lqr824]

I think the price may include the R&D costs amortized across a very small production run? The cost for each additional unit might be far cheaper. Also, military goods (especially in the US) involve a lot of things that aren't that important for civilian usage. It probably needed to pass very specific tests for breakdowns, for instance, and be repairable with a certain minimal set of standard tools and skills that the military can guarantee all military mechanics will have on hand. They may have special requirements for recyclability, or American-sourced parts that are much more expensive than buying the part from China. It might also have dimension limits that are design difficulties, as the military will have military-standard shipping cases and military-standard cyclist size, require military-standardized freight dimensions and so on, where commonly-available civilian parts may be in most ways better but simply can't be used as laws state the pannier must be 2mm deeper or something. Civilians can simply be told, you're too small or too large for this model, get a different model, but in the military there is just the one model and it has to be operable by a specified range of soldiers. They probably require all military purchases to use inch-sized tools not metric. Looking at any given single program, such limits seem ridiculous, but when you consider that the US military, at least, has to deploy EVERYWHERE (NO wars on our own continent for 150 years) and the need to keep the logistics as simple and compatible as possible, it's the only way. You have to have just one fuel, as the narrator points out, just one set of tools, just one

[@AH-mj1rd]

They could have easily just stuck a small diesel generator engine in

[@lqr824]

They could literally leave the generator in there and let you power or recharge electronics from it. You could run a deep patrol with say 1 diesel and 4 electric bikes, and the electrics meet up at the diesel to recharge.

[@AH-mj1rd]

@@lqr824 great idea, a hybrid diesel electric bike. Would work great in military as it can operate in silent mode pure electric.

[@lqr824]

@@AH-mj1rd hmmm, I wasn't thinking hybrid, but of course that's a great idea. I was just thinking to put the generator on it.

[@AH-mj1rd]

@@lqr824 for sure the military would be interested, keeping fast,quite and cool on the battle field is great advantage. And then able to use the generator to extend the range of the unit, would be a great tool

[@snowballsvlogs621]

Would be good here in Uk as the fuel price is high and the roads full of potholes and with 20 mph speed limits its performance wouldn’t be an issue.

[@Xayuap]

¿ is it me or this sounds better than an F1 ?

[@rm25088]

I watched bikesandbeards try to get his going. What a mess.

[@lenowoo]

good thing you changed the thumbnail. . .

[@VisioRacer]

A/B testing 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@johnny_salmon]

make a video about diesel engine from smart in motorcycle

[@andykerr3803]

Kerosene is such an easy conversion, this makes little sense, but interesting.

[@at33williamson40]

They're pretty sweet

[@Stunna710]

needs big injectors & turbo, hypo ecu

[@Lord_Grungus]

The perfect bike doesn….

[@PetkoM78]

imagine turbo charged version... ;-)

[@gamtax]

Wish they commercialize it...

[@debojyotidebnath338]

Sounds like Piaggio diesel autorickshaw

[@apismellifera1000]

Diesel Braaaapp!

[@HicVenariHicSalta]

Mechanic pump and small Turbo on it.. then is flys

[@user-zw9xh9rf9q]

i love that diesel bike

[@user-yo1pk4ky4k]

Typical military procurement blunder. 20:1 compression means it would be hard to start by a kick or compression. And in a short time your hands would be dead from vibration neuropathy. To say nothing of the massive weight caused by the engine and huge fuel tank.

[@oldschool8432]

I bet this bike would tow a tank, maybe 2

[@lukasuton2433]

no elećtric neaded for emp or cme

[@gianlucasoscia7539]

Da comprare🙆

[@thatonescrambler]

dont buy them if you want a headache, or are crazy like me

[@bobbythompson3544]

Why reinvent the wheel!

[@francotirador7265]

Isn't it 2 storke engine, is it ?

[@teromanninen2776]

1 cyl 4-stroke dsl

[@francotirador7265]

@@teromanninen2776 It doesn't sound like it.

[@facesart]

Kamo jediná vec čo ma iritovala na tvojich videách bolo to “howhether” ale keď si sa to už naucil naporiadok už mi nereže uši. Dosť počuť že tvoja angličtina je bez prízvuku na rozdiel od iných. Drzim palce

[@VisioRacer]

To slovo neznášam, robí mi problém a dlho mi trvalo, kým som si uvedomil, že ho vravím zle, takže sa teraz preúčam. Vďaka za koment!

[@dispositivosdesalomao7874]

turbo it

[@froginasock8782]

The pronunciation is "Marine CORE", not "corpse". One of these silly English military words.

[@asharma9345]

Noice

[@louvendran7273]

Why don't you give metric figures? Only one country uses Imperial measures. 😂🤦🏾‍♂️ It will do well in Indian traffic or any large city. 😂

[@Grimm-Gaming]

Im from America. But even i only use a few freedom units lol.. i measure height by feet weight by pounds but i like metric for nuts n bolts. Alsp kilometers is just so much easier... but hey everyone knows 1/4 at least cause good pl drag racing... but also at the same time alot of our drag strips are 1000ft so its like even here we want even numbers sometimes when measuring haha

[@skylinefever]

Ever since the 1980s, American cars made people ask "Where is my 10mm socket?"

[@chrishenniker5944]

Britain and Burma use the imperial system too.

[@louvendran7273]

@@chrishenniker5944 Lol. Plus Liberia. I was kidding, officially the UK has changed. Even in NZ/Aus/India still uses certain measures like pressure in imperial units. I had never used that before I had to use before I had to look at a conversion chart. 😂👍

[@skylinefever]

@@louvendran7273 Living in the USA has made me take a lot of interest in conversion charts. Many cars had PSI for oil pressure. I find it funny that very early Nissans would say Lb/In^2. Elementary and middle school teachers would tell us to learn metric and catch up with the rest of the world. They said that metric is the standard for everything. I find it funny that it is common to see Kg/Cm^2 pressure measurements in Japan and nowhere else. The rest of the world tends to use BAR and KPa.

[@floydjay]

Never 4 me 😂😂😂

[@user-vx8xp9df8l]

ほしい

[@caturwin5195]

👍✨✨

[@sergeysubarist279]

не дай бог вода попадёт. гидроудар нет мотора.🫣

[@leandrorey4825]

Not like me ,sorry !!

[@demil3618]

Interestingly this is a short stroke. Un-typical for diesels.

[@marcinsmolinski903]

a bike need a wide range of rpms. Single cylinger 600cc engine with bore and stoke like car would rev under 3k. It would give even less hp

[@demil3618]

@@marcinsmolinski903 ...bu more torque. So yes, the transmission would need to accommodate this, perhaps with a wider gap between the gears or a higher transmission on the final drive.

[@marcinsmolinski903]

@@demil3618 Of course it would needed higher ratio. But single cylinder naturally aspirated regular diesel, cant rev high. Without rev, you ended up without power. Its not turbo, its need rev

[@demil3618]

@@marcinsmolinski903 You've got torque

[@marcinsmolinski903]

@@demil3618 torque is good for pulling, not for accelerating or speeding. N/A diesel sucks, only good thing it has is fuel efficiency

[@kazuoa.4951]

I'd buy the Diesel run 600km for one tank but kinda challange for smoke and exhaust for the regulation today. It'shame.

[@SatendraSharma-uv9vk]

I don't like it Because sound is very bad Sound like bad tractor very very bad

[@philiplahm2420]

toyota engine H,2H,12H next vid

[@1silvervespa]

Loud as hell. .....ugh .

[@oldschool8432]

I bet this bike would tow a tank, maybe 2

[@PaulG.x]

The diesel has a peak torque of 33 ft lbs @ 4,200 rpm The original KLR has 35.2 lb⋅ft (47.7 N⋅m) @ 4,600 rpm . You are better off using the original as a tow vehicle