diesel track motorbike, but not a thumper

[guest18]

Would be nice if it resulted in lots of ex army/never made it to the army diesel motorbikes appearing for sale... somehow I doubt it though  

edited to add, seems someone is producing 1000cc hatz diesel urals though (for the sidecar/diesel/winter rally/german speaking type fans/nutters  ) http://www.loew-gmbh.de/index_motorrad.htm

[SteveC#222]

Hmmm, I'd be interested to see how the gearbox/transmission copes with the diesel's torque. The Ural/Dnepr gearboxes were originally designed to cope with 24bhp and the big problem they found with swapping engines was the gearboxes and transmission rubber 'donut' failing. They could cope OK with BMW R80 engines - 50bhp, but the R100 70bhp engine was usually too much for it to cope with.