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MCsanandreas
19-05-08, 09:30 PM
....someone post some Ural combo photo's on here!!!!:D:D:D
YEN_POWELL
19-05-08, 09:35 PM
http://www.blackletter.org/news/Ural-jump.jpg
Stormforce8
19-05-08, 09:43 PM
These are of our resident Ural Stunt Monkey, Tarka at the Beaulieu Show last year with his Ural combo
http://www.xrv.org.uk/photopost/data/508/medium/Picture_0011.jpg
http://www.xrv.org.uk/photopost/data/508/medium/Picture_0061.jpg
MCsanandreas
20-05-08, 01:11 PM
excellent,Yen and Stormforce you are stars!!
what are combo's like to ride(drive?)look like fun to me. if i had one my 89 year old mum would HAVE to go out in it i just know she would!
Okay..here we go.
Here`s my 650cc Ural combo....
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/Skaya2.jpg
It`s a year 2000 model...built after the factory revamp over the Winter of 1999 and to much higher standards than the older ones.
I bought this as a sadly neglected non runner with all tyres shot and the whole thing covered in slime and cobwebs.
Since bringing it back to life it`s been in almost daily use for the last two years.
Here`s another couple of pics.
(She`s called 'Skaya' by the way)
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/Skaya1.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/Skaya3.jpg
And here`s my 'posh' 750cc Ural combo.
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/D1.jpg
This is a year 2004 model,bought as a non runner with only 860km on it!!
The owner had moved house and the warranty had expired...and they knew nothing about bikes.
I bought it a year ago for £2200.
Checked it over...found a bent exhaust valve and fixed it for £20.
It`s now worth £3500,heh heh.
She`s called 'Dee'.
Used for 'nice' rallies and B&B weekends whereas Skaya goes to dirty and rough events :teeth:
(Oh...and also for stunting...heh heh)
More pics.........
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/D3.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/D2.jpg
Ural convoy at Chateau Tarka :teeth:
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/Uralconvoy2.jpg
Ural combos are fun at any time...but they really come into their own in Winter...and especially in frost and snow.
Here`s Skaya at the Dragon Rally.
Eagle eyed readers will observe that I`ve fitted a Dnepr leading link front end to Skaya since the earlier pics(she was a rare 'Roustabout' model fitted with telescopic forks originally,but leading links are far better on a combo).
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/DR41.jpg
It was a tad cold....
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/DR48.jpg
Gawd...I like cold weather but it was painful even to breathe :D
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/DR40.jpg
Snow brings even more fun !!
I used ten quid`s worth of petrol and didn`t go more than five miles from home...just hooned around the lanes for the morning :blob5:
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/Tarkasfunday3.jpg
Go on....you know you want one !! :thumbup:
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii99/Tarka_2008/Tarkasfunday4.jpg
I do want one and you know it cause i'm always annoying you to get you to sell me one. Are either of yours TWD?
My wife thinks i'm mad, but one of these days i will get one. I suppose i should put some money aside just in the of chance that one comes along some day.
. Are either of yours TWD?
No mate.
As you can see,BOTH (there I go again :D ) of MINE ( :rolleyes::D) are UK sided...ie left hand chair...and you can only have 2WD on Continental sided ones due to the shaft and bevel box being on the right.
Incidentally, you don`t need 2WD for anything other than very extreme trials type offroading,despite what some of the Merkins may say on AdvRider.
I did an off road day on Skaya with road tyres and with only rear wheel drive...and had no trouble at all.
The only guy to have difficulties was on a 2WD combo....they try to go straight in 2WD and end up 'crabbing' due to the asymmetrical wheel plan.
Warthog
21-05-08, 08:12 AM
Here you go!
A few of my recent trip round a local off-road site:
Great fun but bruises knees!! Saving for Heidenau K37s: .....knobbly...hhhhmmmmmmm
http://www.blackletter.org/news/Ural-jump.jpg HOLY SHEEEEEEAT !!!:cool::cool::D:D:D
Warthog
21-05-08, 06:10 PM
http://www.blackletter.org/news/Ural-jump.jpg
They must have dropped the ground, coz there is no way a Ural can go fast enough to get air like that!! Catapult? Trebuchet?
Perhaps they photoshopped the ski-jump just behind them!!
They must have dropped the ground, coz there is no way a Ural can go fast enough to get air like that!! Catapult? Trebuchet?
Perhaps they photoshopped the ski-jump just behind them!!WITH A TAIL WIND:D:D:D:D
Recycler
21-05-08, 06:32 PM
http://www.blackletter.org/news/Ural-jump.jpg
How did they ever lose, riding like that?
How did they ever lose, riding like that?
Erm.....you`re slightly akimbo there mate.
That`s not a wartime combo and those aren`t German soldiers :D
That photo is a 'still' from a Ural Soviet military film and the combo did indeed 'get air' as shown in the photo.
Rubberchicken
21-05-08, 06:46 PM
And this isn't the still. ;-)
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=9_jwlwaHc70
(It gets exciting at 2 minutes in)
thats a freekin art riding them like that:cool::cool::cool::cool:
Warthog
21-05-08, 08:39 PM
thats a freekin art riding them like that:cool::cool::cool::cool:
I got out of first gear...once... on my off-roading. Does that count?
I needed reverse more often to get me out of the pine trees...
Tarka is right: road tyres are surprisingly good. However, I have used the 2WD: the bike got stuck straight away without.
No doubt my technique needs addressing!
May not look it in my pics, but the sand was quite deep and the troughs, quite steep!
PS. I'm going to buy a medieval rack for my monkeys (sidecar passengers) as the bumps probably leave them about 7% shorter after the ride...
:cool:
Thats a fine pair of bikes you have there Tarka I realy enjoyed those pictures, I just found this on ebay 110255257973 for anyone interested.
BIG D
Not mine, I hasten to add, but I had one of these as my very first scrambler when I was eight.
Only a mere 30 years ago and I can still remember the smell of castrol while my dad was teaching me to ride the thing.
Top memories.:D:D:D
I'll have a dig around pops photos and scan a piccie of mine in.:D:D
Warthog
23-05-08, 09:49 PM
Not mine, I hasten to add, but I had one of these as my very first scrambler when I was eight.
Only a mere 30 years ago and I can still remember the smell of castrol while my dad was teaching me to ride the thing.
Top memories.:D:D:D
I'll have a dig around pops photos and scan a piccie of mine in.:D:D
Cool!
looks like fun!
must admit i would love to have a go of one without the sidecar:cool::cool::cool:
davsato
10-06-08, 10:07 AM
back to beaulieu last year, managed to snap this before the rain set in.
its a combo towing a caravan and the sidecar unclips to form a little boat, including outboard.
i remember it was in one of the magazines over the last year too.
im not sure about the boat's seaworthiness (the two bags of cement in the bottom give a big hint) but the caravan was a little work of art, if youve got a ural speed isnt an issue, so why not take a double bed with you when you go on a trip?
Rubberchicken
10-06-08, 09:59 PM
im not sure about the boat's seaworthiness (the two bags of cement in the bottom give a big hint)
That's just to keep the sidehack wheel somewhere near the surface. ;-)
Friend of mine keeps a few big old lead batteries in his sidecar, as ballast.
I love the little boat idea though. :mrgreen:
Warthog
11-06-08, 07:27 AM
back to beaulieu last year, managed to snap this before the rain set in.
its a combo towing a caravan and the sidecar unclips to form a little boat, including outboard.
i remember it was in one of the magazines over the last year too.
im not sure about the boat's seaworthiness (the two bags of cement in the bottom give a big hint) but the caravan was a little work of art, if youve got a ural speed isnt an issue, so why not take a double bed with you when you go on a trip?
That special was built by Mick at MPC: the place I went for a day's intro training to riding sidecars (that knowledge alone probably helped me avoid the hedge the first few days in the new saddle!).
I can't comment on sea-worthiness, but lake, canal and gentle river-worthiness is probably OK. Have a look here (http://www.uralmotorbikes.info/Specials.htm)
I rode the 'Ural Camper' combo with sidecar boat towing the caravan from Mick`s place (MPC Ural) south of Leicester down to last year`s Beaulieu event.
Mick trailered my 2 tone combo down there with the other shop bikes.
Don`t kid yourself about perceived 'lack of speed' as other traffic was actually slowing me down.
The combo is fitted with solo gearing which dulls acceleration from standstill a bit...but the whole rig will cruise at 60-65mph all day.
You barely notice the caravan apart from having to get your cornering speed set up properly before the bend and gently powering around in order to avoid the dead weight of the caravan 'nosing' you.
davsato
12-06-08, 04:27 PM
oh right, so they arent that slow then, about warp factor enfield would you say? thats useable at least.
my boy(9) wants me to get one of these, but the 2WD with reverse and preferably the antitank rocket launcher like in the russian website
oh right, so they arent that slow then, about warp factor enfield would you say? thats useable at least.
It`s a bit childish to discuss how fast a bike will go,especially a bike of this type...but for your information even my 650 Ural is capable of passing and leaving an Enfield.
The 750 Ural will romp away from an Enfield completely.
davsato
13-06-08, 11:47 AM
It`s a bit childish to discuss how fast a bike will go,especially a bike of this type...but for your information even my 650 Ural is capable of passing and leaving an Enfield.
The 750 Ural will romp away from an Enfield completely.
didnt mean to pluck your string old boy, if you re-read my comment its actually a compliment, (change 'slow' to 'not a fireblade but can easily keep up with traffic and be a fun, sprightly ride', theres too many different ideas of 'fast/slow' these days)
for the style/set up of the bike a 500 enfield has perfectly good performance, and if a ural goes even better than power to the people!
i would never expect bikes like these, or deride them for not having, a modern bikes performance. except perhaps an 883 sportster, but does that class as modern?
pdsquire
27-11-08, 08:09 PM
And this isn't the still. ;-)
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=9_jwlwaHc70
(It gets exciting at 2 minutes in)
Christ alive, I think I just bust a rib laughing. :laughing2:
That is absolute quality:notworthy:, but I still don't fancy riding one round a corner :confused:
Hang on, I'm gonna have to watch that again... :thumbup:
not a ural but my 1992 chezslovakian jawa 350ds combination
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/halun/my%20vehicles/042a2ad2.jpg
MCsanandreas
20-12-08, 10:49 PM
not a ural but my 1992 chezslovakian jawa 350ds combination
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/halun/my%20vehicles/042a2ad2.jpg
cool! i like the old Eastern Bloc 2strokes.
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