Due to these reasons diesel engines are not commonly used in two-wheelers, but two-wheelers manufactures like Royal Enfield introduced it's first diesel bike but due to these reasons & due to pollution laws the bike was not so popular. However new technologies have to be made to overcome these types of limitations. read more
We do have diesel engines for two wheelers, but not in the scale the petrol engines are. There is only one type of bike with a diesel engine in India and that is the Royal Enfield Taurus. The chief reasons for not using diesel engines in two-wheelers are as follows: 1) Compression Ratio: Diesel engines are characterized by high compression ratio. read more