US Military V-Twin Diesel Motorcycle

[pietenpol2002]

Don't get excited - it's only in the research and development stages (somebody having fun spending my tax dollars). I'd love to have a look at it but I'm too cheap to buy the article. Doesn't appear to have any affiliation with HDT. I do find it interesting that the company developing this engine is the motherland of the V-Twin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

http://www.sae.org/technical/papers/2004-32-0055

[coachgeo]

2004 date..... hmmmm that is likely the company that is supposed to have designed the engine for the dieselized KLR that HDT is suppose to do. Think the two companies are actually next door to each other.

[andrewaust]

Yes I think you might be right coachgeo , what a waste of time money and effort that project was. If that succeeded I'd guess they would have had an absolute gold mine on there hands, so damn secretive they were and from what I heard their public relations to interested parties kinda sucked !!


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[pietenpol2002]

Perhaps Locomotive Breath can speak to this, but company in this paper is based in Wisconsin and developing a V-twin whereas HDT is in the southwest/California somewhere and "developing" a single.