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Tangential, but the US Marines have in their fleet multi-fuel Kawasaki KLR650 motorcycles and I've always 1) wanted one and 2) wondered what they've been used f

Tangential, but the US Marines have in their fleet multi-fuel Kawasaki KLR650 motorcycles and I've always 1) wanted one and 2) wondered what they've been used for: https://www.rideapart.com/features/360407/cycleweird-diesel-kawasaki-klr650/ https://www.rideapart.com/features/360407/cycleweird-diesel-... They come up for auction sometimes but are rare and generally in hot demand: https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=90&acctid=3237 https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=90&ac...

andrewflnr 3y ago
I, too, desperately want one. The price on that one wasn't even as high as I thought it would be, until I saw it had no title and no battery and hadn't run for a while. Any reputable multi-fuel motorcycle would be great...
- blamazon 3y ago
  My dream is a bike with a rotary 2 stroke turbodiesel. It makes more sense than it sounds, I promise...
RugnirViking 3y ago
iirc most of the times ive heard about motorbikes used millitarily is for courier service in case of communication failure. Iirc there was a quite effective wargame in the early 200s run by the us millitary in whihc a simulated iran did very well using such a strategy
- blamazon 3y ago
  That is fascinating, thanks for sharing! After some web search I believe the second part of your comment refers to "Millennium Challenge 2002": > Red, commanded by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, adopted an asymmetric strategy, in particular, using old methods to evade Blue's sophisticated electronic surveillance network. Van Riper used motorcycle messengers to transmit orders to front-line troops and World-War-II-style light signals to launch airplanes without radio communications. [1]: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Joint_Staff/12-F-0344-Millennium-Challenge-2002-Experiment-Report.pdf https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

andrewflnr 3y ago

I, too, desperately want one. The price on that one wasn't even as high as I thought it would be, until I saw it had no title and no battery and hadn't run for a while. Any reputable multi-fuel motorcycle would be great...

blamazon 3y ago
My dream is a bike with a rotary 2 stroke turbodiesel. It makes more sense than it sounds, I promise...

RugnirViking 3y ago

iirc most of the times ive heard about motorbikes used millitarily is for courier service in case of communication failure. Iirc there was a quite effective wargame in the early 200s run by the us millitary in whihc a simulated iran did very well using such a strategy

blamazon 3y ago
That is fascinating, thanks for sharing! After some web search I believe the second part of your comment refers to "Millennium Challenge 2002": > Red, commanded by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, adopted an asymmetric strategy, in particular, using old methods to evade Blue's sophisticated electronic surveillance network. Van Riper used motorcycle messengers to transmit orders to front-line troops and World-War-II-style light signals to launch airplanes without radio communications. [1]: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Joint_Staff/12-F-0344-Millennium-Challenge-2002-Experiment-Report.pdf https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002