Bikes, biodiesel and bacon… what more could a guy (or gal) want? In what could be the tastiest source ever for biodiesel, a motorcycle fueled by bacon grease biodiesel has driven to the West Coast. This article from the Austin (MN) Daily Herald says hometown Hormel Foods Corp. is sponsoring a motorcycle that runs on biodiesel made of bacon grease for the Aug. 29 International Bacon Film Festival in San Diego, Calif. and is being filmed along the way for a movie called “Driven By Bacon” to be shown at the film festival.
Hormel representatives say the marketing push is an exciting opportunity to spread the word about Hormel’s Black Label Bacon brand and will likely be used as a promotional tool in the future.
“It was a really exciting idea,” said Nick Schweitzer, brand manager for meat production at Hormel.
Several people, including Charlie Smithson of CSE Engineering and Taylor Bamber, Smithson’s work partner, will also be on the trip to troubleshoot problems with the motorcycle.
Smithson and Bamber custom designed the motorcycle based on a 2011 Track T-800CDI model.
Officials say the motorcycle could end up in Hormel’s Spam Museum.