please,please,please......

[Chad]

must admit i would love to have a go of one without the sidecar

[davsato]

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]

Originally Posted by davsato

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.

[Warthog]

Originally Posted by davsato

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

[Tarka]

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]

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

[Tarka]

Originally Posted by davsato

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]

Originally Posted by Tarka

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]

Originally Posted by Rubberchicken

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.

That is absolute quality, but I still don't fancy riding one round a corner

Hang on, I'm gonna have to watch that again...

[HALUN]

not a ural but my 1992 chezslovakian jawa 350ds combination