Why This Military Bike Is DIESEL

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“Combat Motorcycles” by tripleps777

“For Sale (Sold): Military Diesel (M1030M1) KLR #2(Read Description)” by Will Flores

“USMC M1030B1 Front blackout light bike4” by M1030B1 USMC

“Kawasaki / Hayes USMC M1030M1 startup” by L J

“Marine Corps Vehicles” by Marine Corps Recruiting

“2002 Kawasaki MX1030M1 Bought at auction ! DIESEL KLR” by RTiPowersports

“M1 Abrams Tank In Action” by rick r

“Diesel motorcycle” by morini500dave

“U.S. Military convoy Dragoon Ride rides through eastern Europe” BY WildlyFunny

“M1030M1 Engine Startup & Drive” by SWATMOD

“M1031-M1 Hayes Diesel USMC Motorcycle gets 100 MPG Haynes Diesel KLR650 M1030M1” by Eastcoast Enduro

“1986 M1030 USMC motorcycle walk around.” by M123A1C

“Diesel KLR - Chat and Start Up” by Start Somewhere

“M1030M1 Diesel start KLR 650” by Chris Merchant

[shafferjoe]

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

[alternator]

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 ☝️

[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 :)

[upsidedowndog]

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.

[kodywalters]

Reminds me of a old hit and miss engine at idle

[morelanmn]

A large amount of these motorcycles was "dumped" on the government surplus sites over the last five years. They sold from $4, 000 up to $20, 000 for one still in the box. The biggest issue is the lack of parts of any kind for the bike. Even the government surplus sites had nothing in parts. Myself, Not being an engineer (smile) I did not see why a small mechanical supercharger wasn't mounted on the bike.

[TTTzzzz]

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

[cyrildrewery]

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

[GUETPA]

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

[joymajumdar]

India needs these kinds of motorcycles. Our roads are just terrible.

[henrik]

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

[Oddman]

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

[mitchwagner]

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

[dadgarage]

Another great story on obscure motive power technology.

[trainnerd]

Everything in the US military runs on the same fuel.

[bobhill]

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.

[bharat]

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

[DamnItCarl-]

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

[_Nobody_Special]

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

[elektro]

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.