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trev0006
Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 147
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:24 am Post subject: Monster Diesel Chopper Motorcycle |
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Video - Monster Diesel Chopper Motorcycle
Lay your eyes on this diesel: a custom two-wheeled marketing machine that Monster Diesel hopes will change your perception of diesels for good.
Dr. Mat Zuckerman saw a void in the diesel industry and wanted to correct it. So with some heart-felt inspiration and a lot of research, he came up with a solution that could change how we think of diesel fuel – with an additive he calls Monster Diesel.
DR. MAT ZUCKERMAN: When you go into a gasoline station, there are three grades of gasoline and only one grade of diesel. So the world really needs premium diesel.
The inspiration for creating the product is a personal story for Dr. Zuckerman. About six years ago, he had a massive heart attack.
DR. MAT ZUCKERMAN: One of the things they gave me after my heart attack is this little bottle, and it's nitroglycerine, and it's an explosive.
Really the inspiration for the product is, if you can harness nitroglycerine so that you can carry it around with you, I can make it so you can use it as an energy source in the confined space of an engine.
This formula may be dynamite-in-a-bottle only in the figurative sense, but there's no denying the explosive marketing potential the company got from TLC's American Chopper and Orange County Choppers resident bike expert, Paul Teutul, senior. Paul and his crew designed this unique diesel-powered motorcycle to showcase monster diesel.
DR. MAT ZUCKERMAN: This fuel is a liquid and it's hard to show what it does, but the motorcycle really does it. You know, the only diesel motorcycles are some military applications using jet fuel…those are the only ones. This is a motorcycle that uses an engine that you use on a farm for pumping water or generating power. Now we've made it mobile instead of stationary.
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MARTIN
Joined: 09 Dec 2009 Posts: 226 Location: ABERDEEN SCOTLAND
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Evilchicken0
Joined: 12 May 2010 Posts: 2996 Location: London
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:39 am Post subject: |
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There's nothing really wrong with diesels in bikes, it's been done before. The sticking point has always been the engine not being a specific motorbike design.
Diesel is now on par with petrol in terms of price so when you add in an extra cost on top there would need to be more of a pay back in performance terms _________________ Don't read everything you believe |
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Admin Site Admin
Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 508 Location: Stafford, UK
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Afraid I don't like diesel engines. Normal 4 strokes are bad enough! I want something where the torque continues to build up through the entire rev range, not something where the torque drops away and which relies on revs to keep power increasing (which to me just makes it feel asthmatic when you use the revs).
As to diesel being equal to petrol in terms of price, the engines themselves cost more. Interesting bit in a car magazine recently saying that the next Micra will not have a diesel version. They reckon they can get the same performance and CO2 emissions (diesel fuel gives about 15% more CO2 when burnt than the same volume of petrol, just that diesel has more energy by volume), but getting the diesel engine to comply with the coming emissions rules will last up with it costing far more (from memory, £650 for a petrol engine unit and about triple that for a diesel).
All the best
Keith |
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