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Biodiesel bike tries to circumnavigate Australia

Paul Carter, a best-selling author who previously spent 20 years as an off-shore oil driller, is smack dab in the middle of a 20,000-kilometer (12,240-mile) trip around Australia aboard a biodiesel-powered motorcycle built by students at the University of Adelaide. If Carter is successful, he plans to follow this trip up with a land-speed record attempt of 166 miles per hour aboard a second biodiesel-powered motorcycle. Carter hopes to average 53 miles per hour over the trip using 650 liters in used cooking oil and waste animal fats. A ... Read more →

BioBike, a biodiesel motorcycle made in Australia, gets over 100 mpg Jeremy Korzeniewski

Here in the Unites States, riding motorcycles is more likely to be for pleasure than for practical purposes, but that is not the case in all areas of the world. A group from Australia is proving the ...

Enterprising DIY'ers create their own diesel and biodiesel powered cycles Jeremy Korzeniewski

There are many believers in alternative fuels these days, be it biodiesel, ethanol or butanol, who wish to share their knowledge and passion about the energy potential of renewables to the masses. ...

Jay Leno straddles a biodiesel crotch rocket Sebastian Blanco

There's so very little information about what's going on in this picture here, details of who's bike and where. Pretty much all that the poster Martin tells us is, "Hey mom, check me out with Jay ...

Biodiesel bike tries to circumnavigate Australia 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Paul Carter, a best-selling author who previously spent 20 years as an off-shore oil driller, is smack dab in the middle of a 20,000-kilometer (12,240-mile) trip around Australia aboard a biodiesel-powered motorcycle built by students at the University of Adelaide. If Carter is successful, he ...

BioBike, a biodiesel motorcycle made in Australia, gets over 100 mpg 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Here in the Unites States, riding motorcycles is more likely to be for pleasure than for practical purposes, but that is not the case in all areas of the world. A group from Australia is proving the worth of their biodiesel-powered motorcycle by showcasing in alongside other alternative-fueled ...

Enterprising DIY'ers create their own diesel and biodiesel powered cycles 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There are many believers in alternative fuels these days, be it biodiesel, ethanol or butanol, who wish to share their knowledge and passion about the energy potential of renewables to the masses. One way that some choose to do this is by creating high-powered vehicles and attempting to set land ...

Jay Leno straddles a biodiesel crotch rocket 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

There's so very little information about what's going on in this picture here, details of who's bike and where. Pretty much all that the poster Martin tells us is, "Hey mom, check me out with Jay Leno..." We can also figure out it's Leno and crew with a biodiesel motorcycle. There's an accompanying ...


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