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Taken at the annual Sharonville car show in the Sharonville suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
IMZ-Ural is a Russian based company that makes heavy duty, two wheel drive motorcycles with sidecars. Their motors are based on designs originated by BMW. This one has a sidecar which is attached, but mostly hidden in this shot. Interestingly enough there were two of them at this show and they weren't together.
Te learn more about their very interesting history and current operation, see Wikipedia.
It's called a Ural. Husband's new toy. Turning 56 calls for something big. It's actually a lot of fun to ride in the sidecar. German designed and Russian built. Better built since U.S. and modern engineering got involved.
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Well, we've sold the boat and Frank is turning 70 this year, so for those reasons Frank decided to buy a Ural sidecar motorcycle.
A friend took this photo of us on the start of our three-day trip from Portland, Oregon to our home near New Meadows, Idaho. (That's me in the sidecar fastening my helmet.) Needless to say, we took back roads.
The sidecar is remarkably comfortable and I feel safe riding in it.
Urals have been being built in Russia since WWII, when Stalin copied the BMW sidecar motorcycle used by the German army.
Ural production dropped dramatically after the Russian army stopped buying them sometime in the 1990s. Now the factory makes about 1000 Urals per year, mostly for export.
Today's Ural may look like its 1939 ancestor, but the technology has been upgraded through the use of foreign components for most of the major systems.
We use the Ural for a variety of purposes ranging from going to the grocery store to multi-day road trips into Idaho's backcountry.
The bike's unusual enough that it attracts people whenever we stop.
porthole Pinto panel wagon
patriotic Ford Falcon van
primitive GMC cab-over motorhome
IMZ-Ural motorcycle
Portland, Oregon
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This motorcycle shop in Ventura California had three of these sidecar beauties, VERY cool! The shop owner said they were made up with different parts from other brands.
This is a rare Russian 2012 Ural bike with Sidecar that was on display at the show.
Taken at Marong Picnic Car Show, Victoria in 2015.
There's not much to Elk River, a community of about 150 people at the end state road 8 in the Idaho panhandle.
Until the 1930s, Elk River was a company town supporting one of Potlatch's lumber mills. Then the mill was closed, and the town has been declining ever since.
The Elk River Lodge is the largest of the few remaining businesses. It has a general store downstairs and lodging upstairs.
I will be forever grateful to the Elk River Lodge for saving the day by stocking bottles of drinkable red wine and bottle openers when we discovered the only restaurant in town offered nothing but a chilled very sweet rosé out of a carton.
Talking to the owner only 200 were built in 2008 - which is the same bike the Russian Military used - Local sighting
More info www.heindlengineering.com/Ural_Sidecar/08retro.htm
This is a rare Russian 2012 Ural bike with Sidecar that was on display at the show.
Taken at Marong Picnic Car Show, Victoria in 2015.
This motorcycle shop in Ventura California had three of these sidecar beauties, VERY cool! The shop owner said they were made up with different parts from other brands.
Frank on the Ural at Warm Lake, Idaho.
I took this photo on our last motorcycle road trip of the season.
It was overcast and cold on the first day. Brrr. Thankfully, the second day (which is when this photo was taken) was sunny and relatively warm.
enfusion of 7 exposures: 22mm, F/14, ISO200, 2.5s +2eV -4eV
An old Ural at Holopaw Ural. Here is the letter that came with the bike from the Marine that first sold the bike:
"I hearby sell to xxxx xxxxx Russian Cycle M67-38 also bearing #979 and #232582 and #649CM on the vehicle ID. This vehicle to the best of my knowledge was captured from a Cuban soldier on Graneda." "It was captured by the 101st Airborne and brought to the US as a war trophy.
Received of xxxx xxxx one thousand dollars. 3/4/92
signed"
If you're accustomed to other motorcycles, Ural hack rig riding takes a little bit of getting used to. Some bells and whistles can help.
Despite what you may have heard, GPS is NOT just an affectation for sissies! Just a personal preference, but having an electronic kibbutzer when navigating unfamiliar areas can't hurt.
When you're new to a Ural and its low revving engine, a cheap, aftermarket tachometer is a good investment, at least until you develop the instinctive feel for finding shift points.
This isn't a modern rice burning Crotch Rocket; it's a copy of 1930s BMW technology. It DOESN'T rev to 6000 or 7000 RPM... if you DO manage to get it there, the Boxer engine will disassemble itself in a most unsatisfactory and disheartening manner.
Try shifting at maybe 2900 - 3100 RPM, and falling back to about 2000 RPM.
DON'T run a Ural at UNDER 2000 RPM for more than a few seconds; that's "lugging" the engine... sooner or later, the lack of oil pressure from lugging will surely be fatal.
Figure max RPM in 4th gear to be around 4100 - 4300 RPM. That'll give you about 63 - 67 MPH with the "low" version of the final drive gears that's standard on Urals that haul the weight of a sidecar.
Solo Urals have a different final drive ratio; figure another 5 - 10 MPH at the high end of 4th gear RPMs. It's STILL not a Crotch Rocket, but it'll get ya where yer goin'.
All of this is based on experience with the 650cc engine. I'd imagine the later 750cc engine is pretty much the same.
A few Dymo tape "cheat sheets" , like the one visible in this photo, can be useful. For calculating gas mileage; it's easier than trying to convert it from gas kilometerage!
A Ural speedometer used on export bikes will read directly in MPH by means of a second scale, but the main and trip odometers will always read in kilometers.
Also bear in mind that Ural speedometers aren't the most ACCURATE instruments around; at 50 MPH mine reads 3 MPH high (assuming properly inflated tires). That's another reason for the GPS; I'd rather trust the speed readings from the Bird than from the Bike... less tickets that way!
Also useful, but not shown in this picture, is another Dymo tape that gives tire inflation pressures in Pounds per Square Inch instead of the Russian standard of Kilopascals (KPa) per Cubic Centimeter.
Also... bear in mind that the front and hack tire pressures are DIFFERENT from the rear tire pressure. The pusher likes to be a couple of pounds firmer than the other two.