How do you throw away even more money? Spend it on a bad concept paint job.







edit: OCC has one too but its worse and not worth posting.

 

edit: OCC has one too but its worse and not worth posting.[/QUOTE]


Yea, it's here in Birmingham at the museum at Barbers. When I saw it, I thought, "Really?" Barbers has hundreds of beyond awesome bikes. OCC has built some real cool machines. But the Cat bike isn't one of them and doesn't deserve to be on display in any museum, let alone Barbers.

 

Shouldn't anything CAT be at least a diesel?




I actually saw this bike at a Local show a few years ago. I was also lucky to hear it ride away.

 

WHAT is that lump from?! Looks like a forklift engine!

 

Kind of neat, but I don't understand why the shifter is on the right side like that.

 

Also take a look at where the footpegs are, I`d say the drivig position is just a litttle weird. Reaching to the front, your feet cramped right under your butt. Plus you`ll get a free shoe buff on your left boot

 

I had a good drink of water when I read that, emphasis on had. Now I have a monitor that needs wiped.

 

Its a Caterpillar/Perkins 400 - 3 cyl Turbo Diesel running about 20lbs of boost. It wouldn't be used indoors. Tractors, Welders, Generators - that sort of thing.

It sounded like a Semi-truck idling as it rolled away. Very cool engine, and he didn't look uncomfortable when he pulled away. I read some of his build on a diesel-bike forum and he says he regularly takes 100+ mile trips on it.

The reason the shifter is like that is because he still wanted it to be a handlebar clutch, but also be a jockey shift, so it had to be on the right side. Its a clean looking diesel bike is all. I'm not sure I'd want any bike to ever be "jockey-shift" if I was going to ride it. Too much "reinventing the wheel" to have slower, more awkward shifts.

 

I like it. I think that power plant would be great hidden under the plastic of a CBR.
Royal Enfield had a diesel bike but I think it was only available in Canada.

 

Conrice might very well also be used in forklifts, I drive several diesel outdoor forklifts daily at work. Some of them are CATs