How would one make a diesel rocket?

Some inspiration?

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A diesel bike is something that has interested me for some time.
Me too - though I have to admit I am really drawn to something closer to a converted old Royal Enfield which would then live at my mums in the UK and be used in the rural lanes thereabouts. Where:frankly, the R3 is CRAP. Just too big. and way too much power for the eclectic mix of cow poo and light gravel. Welcome to PricePart Motorcycles - By using a pre 1972 model I'd be 100% tax Exempt. I've a mate in teh UK with an old Enfield he does not want. Negotiation time.
 
Me too - though I have to admit I am really drawn to something closer to a converted old Royal Enfield which would then live at my mums in the UK and be used in the rural lanes thereabouts. Where:frankly, the R3 is CRAP. Just too big. and way too much power for the eclectic mix of cow poo and light gravel. Welcome to PricePart Motorcycles - By using a pre 1972 model I'd be 100% tax Exempt. I've a mate in teh UK with an old Enfield he does not want. Negotiation time.


After a Rocket you would have to go for the High power version surely 13hp vs 10hp - what is the attraction?


Royal Enfield Diesel Conversions
Price Part Motorcycles specialise in converting Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycles to run on diesel fuel.

The motorcycle enters our workshop where it is totally dismantled, the frame is then adapted to take the diesel engine mounting.

The Engine is a 406cc single cylinder direct injection diesel engine 10hp @3600 rpm, either kick start or direct electric start.

There is now the option of the 456cc single cylinder direct injection diesel engine 13hp @ 3600 rpm.

5 amp hour battery fitted to kick start version

14 amp hour capacity battery fitted to electric start version.

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After a Rocket you would have to go for the High power version surely 13hp vs 10hp - what is the attraction?
Yes to the full blown 13hp - it has 'lectric start!.
I'd run it on Veggie oil - it's like being surrounded by fried chips smell. Ran my LandRover on sunflower oil for a while - smelled like a Chip Shop or Churro stand. I kept thinking of Bacon Butties too.

Most of the roads I ride/drive when I'm in the UK are pretty much unsuited to anything above a 500cc - Very narrow and twisty with masses of blind bends and poor surface. And the bits that are better are heavily policed: as that's where folk can speed - so many do. Even my 1979 Guzzi is on the big side. With it's MASSIVE 65rwbhp. I grew up there - know the roads and the R3 is so far out of it's element it's not funny.

And I do like diesels. They're the next best thing to steam. @idk runs a "Curry Burner" Enfield as well as his R3.
The thing is to appreciate it it for what it is. A lovely old plodder - plod along looking at the fields. With 1000miles per tank.
 
Yes to the full blown 13hp - it has 'lectric start!.
I'd run it on Veggie oil - it's like being surrounded by fried chips smell. Ran my LandRover on sunflower oil for a while - smelled like a Chip Shop or Churro stand. I kept thinking of Bacon Butties too.

Most of the roads I ride/drive when I'm in the UK are pretty much unsuited to anything above a 500cc - Very narrow and twisty with masses of blind bends and poor surface. And the bits that are better are heavily policed: as that's where folk can speed - so many do. Even my 1979 Guzzi is on the big side. With it's MASSIVE 65rwbhp. I grew up there - know the roads and the R3 is so far out of it's element it's not funny.

And I do like diesels. They're the next best thing to steam. @idk runs a "Curry Burner" Enfield as well as his R3.
The thing is to appreciate it it for what it is. A lovely old plodder - plod along looking at the fields. With 1000miles per tank.


Guessing Top speed 60mph, 0-60 mph 36 seconds, 1/4 mile 36 seconds or is that optimistic?
 
Guessing Top speed 60mph, 0-60 mph 36 seconds, 1/4 mile 36 seconds or is that optimistic?
Oh - I'd say a bit optimistic - without SERIOUS hearing protection. Though a mate in the UK who has a NON-DIESEL Enfield restored by PriceParts tells me he rode one and they quite surprisingly nippy. But for what I have in mind 50mph will be fine.
 
You guys rock! It sounds like barbergris and I want to build totally different bikes. But come to think of it a light off road alternative might be nice. Lots of options! We are only limited by our imagination.
 
ON road off road...it's just a look at how you could package the thing, and more a look at the ones that have been built, and ARE packaged. You can always reinvent the wheel but it's so much easier to see what others have done. After doing so, your wheel I can guarantee will probably be round!
 
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