why has noone made a car engined bike

[freebeard]

IIRC 1440 is the displacement. Care to kick that over?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

IIRC 1440 is the displacement.

I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. To a certain point it resembles some of those old single-cylinder stationary Diesel engines around 0.9 to 1.5L

[gregsfc]

Originally Posted by HiFlite

However, perhaps that is changing. Honda seems to be doing pretty well with a series based on 2 cylinders of a Fit engine which increases average mpgs by about 50%. It's a significant modality shift though, and it remains questionable whether these truly modern motorcycles will be accepted well enough to be widely adopted.
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Yes, but at least in North America where motorcycles are more often ridden out of the urban setting for some long highway runs, even for many commuters, too many riders could care less about mpg when it comes to motorcycling.

I achieved 96.9 mpg by my own recording (101.82 per the official results) in the 2014 Mid-Ohio fuel challenge on an auto-engine inspired 2014 Honda CTX700; beating the next-best stock bike that was 1/4 the engine displacement of my bike, and I've found few people that find that feat impressive or care, and Honda has had very limited success with their products with this amazing power train here in the States, so this should sort of tell us why there aren't more mc fuel misers.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by gregsfc

Yes, but at least in North America where motorcycles are more often ridden out of the urban setting for some long highway runs, even for many commuters, too many riders could care less about mpg when it comes to motorcycling.

Motorcycles are seen there more as a recreational product than as a serious commuter. I bet it's way harder to find back there a household where motorcycles below 250cc are the primary (and eventually the only) vehicle available, while in the third-world it's not uncommon. Depending on the region, they actually outnumber cars by a good margin.

[Fingie]

it would be hilarious to own a bike with a 1000cc single-piston diesel.

put-put-put-put-put

[Stubby79]

I have a project bike. I have some (car) engines. Come on over and build me one!

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Fingie

it would be hilarious to own a bike with a 1000cc single-piston diesel.

put-put-put-put-put

All the single-cylinder Diesel engines around 1000cc that I've ever seen were real boat-anchors, but you're right. It would be quite cool to fit some random horizontal-single Yanmar (or those Chinese copies) into a replica of those earlier Moto Guzzi bikes which were originally fitted with that 500cc horizontal-single IOE engine.

[Michael Moore]

Here's a contemporary bike with a Subaru engine

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[stiletto2]

Originally Posted by Fingie

it would be hilarious to own a bike with a 1000cc single-piston diesel.

put-put-put-put-put

Nah... it would sound more like potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato.

[Frank Lee]

Nope, potato is a v-twin.