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NEW (to me) URAL SIDECAR MOTORCYCLE JOINS THE PARTY!
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2024
- An overview of my new (to me) 2023 Ural Gear Up. I've wanted one of these for YEARS.
A link to the mentioned Fort9 video, definitely worth watching:
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A couple of months ago, I bought a new 2023 Ural Gear-Up.
Great video that tries to explain why.
If you know, then you know.
This is my first (and probably only) sidecar motorcycle. It's still weird riding this. It's very surreal. If you're passing through the DC-area, look me up. Thanks for watching!
@@bikerbobcatда, в округ Колумбия я не приеду никогда, но приятно видеть что на обратной стороне Земли есть люди которые так-же любят эти мотоциклы как и я. Стоит немного поездить на Урале и вы поймёте сколько преимуществ в этом мотоцикле! Можно кататься втроём, брать в дорогу нужный багаж, проходимость по бездорожью как у танка, ну и без внимания людей на дороге вы не останетесь!
On feb,2022 I bought a URAL Gear-Up and since that day I am happy. In the meantime I drove 30.000 km all over Europe on the TET. The TET is a Trans Europe Trail with 50.000 km offroad trails. And my grandkids love it to be with me on tour
Did you buy it new or used? Riding a trail like that would be amazing. Some day, some day...
It was a new one
Ryan F9's video was the last straw that tipped the scales in favor of me buying my 2021 Ural Gear Up. Definitely Unique experience! We ride mainly ADV type forest and desert roads. Enjoy! BTW if it doesn't already have one I'd suggest a skid plate for the motor.
I'm not off road enough (yet) to warrant the skid plate but it's definitely on my mind. I hope your machine is more reliable than mine.
Reliability is why I bought new and with a three yr warranty. At 840 miles the main seal on the motor went out. At 4000 miles the transmission output seal failed. Both fully covered but a pain in the ass as the dealer is 450 miles away. A Honda it ain't. @@bikerbobcat
At 900mi mine suddenly started backfiring and the header was glowing red, dealer is coming to pick up in about 2 weeks. :/
Agreed.
The sump plate was one of the first items I put on mine, and it was a quick & easy installation.
I’ve had two (‘04 Tourist and ‘12 Gear Up) and they’re absurdly fun. Ride a Ural within its limits, do its regular maintenance, and a Ural will give thousands of happy kilometers (my models were metric odometers and trip meters). A Ural will run all day at 55-60 mph, either solo or with a passenger.
What I tell folks is once you go hack, you’ll never back.
I desperately need to find a grease gun and the correct grease. I've done machine maintenance on other equipment before so I'm not afraid of it. Unfortunately I already had 1 big breakdown but the dealer took it back and repaired it under warranty. Hopefully that was the last of it. Thanks for watching!
@@bikerbobcat what happened?
It's a beauty... Love the sewing machine sound...
It's such a fun machine for sure. Thanks for watching!
As far as the difficulty in kick-starting is concerned, the older carbureted engines were easier to start.
The new GEN-1 & GEN-2 are EFI’s that require at LEAST one full revolution of the crank to start.
It’s very difficult to do.
For the most part, they can only be used to purge the water through the spark plug holes if you’ve submerged the engine.
Another issue you may find useful on those long solo country road rides, is to fold back the windshield inside the sidecar, and then put your sidecar cover over that.
It eliminates a LOT of additional drag that wants to constantly pull you to the right.
I remembered this trick 1/2 way through a ride one day, and folded it down.
The difference was staggeringly effective in reducing my upper body fatigue.
Try it!!!
I have a decal on my trunk that reads, “You can go fast. I can go anywhere.” 😎
This bit of information about EFI's is very useful. I can't imagine being able to kick hard enough to push a full rotation on the engine! The bit about it becoming a water pump is funny, but useful. I doubt I'll ever take it swimming but you never know!
Also you're absolutely right about the side windshield drag. My Ural didn't come with a cover (I bought it later) and folding it down under the cover made such a fascinating difference. Thanks for watching!
Yep. Great machines indeed. If everyone rode one of these, and there were no cars, the world would be a slower, far better, more patient and Zen-filled experience for us all. I ride its equivalent and almost-identical twin....a sweet, Ukrainian Dneipr 650 from 1973. Happy days. Please do keep these posts coming. This one was most enjoyable 👌Thank you.
You're very kind, thank you. And yeah, I *WISH* there were more of these. I'll post more as soon as my Ural is repaired and I can ride it again. The dealer is picking it up on 3/8 and who knows how long it'll be away. I can't imagine running a vintage foreign bike like that - where and how to get parts if there are any left?! Thanks for watching!
My Beemer buddy got a Dneiper sidecar rig. It worked but it looked like it was painted with a spraycan. Sloppy and uneven finish. But if l was in Soviet Union it would be better than nothing. URAL quality in 10 X better.
I am a proud and happy owner of a 2018 Classic Retro - which is basicly a CT made to look like the original M72 from WWII. As mentioned by other Ural owners: ride it within its limits and do your regular maintenance and it wont let you down. One thing to be clear about is that it really is a 1940'st o 1960's vehicle at its core, made for 1940's to 1960s traffic. So be prepared to just travel at an average of 10 to 20 % less speed than you are used to. Although my Ural can get up to almost 130 kph if need be, the best speed on motorways is that of the lorries - so 95 kph give or take since you only have 4 gears anyway. If you have to climb up a mountain road with about a 5 to 8% angle, you can switch back a gear and keep 75 kph in third gear or switch to second and go 40 kph if it gets really steep - just remember that your engine is air cooled. Let yourself be overtaken or just learn to occassionally go aside to let the impatient people pass rather than constantly revv the engine up to 4000rpm for hours in the summer heat as I once foolishly did on one of my first travels. One interresting thing though is that often - although I've been dragging a bunch of tailgaiters behind me for a while on my mountain climb with my wife and all the luggage - they still don't seem to be in a hurry when I give way to let them pass. Instead they rather take their time while overtaking just to have a last look at my ride. Almost as if they regret that they now have to move on and leave me behind. 🙂 When you go downhill keep in mind that the quirky braking habits require you to a) break early and carefully and b) use the rear brake more than you might be used to.
This leads me to two important safety issues regarding this type of bike:
be careful with your brakes in downhill right hand turns - especially descending mountain passes. The tendency to vere left while braking combined with the downward slanted angle of most mountain roads means that you could be carried into oncomming traffic or even beyond the road itself if you misjudge the situation and break too hard. Especially since your normal reaction to a dangerous situation would be to break even harder, which only adds to the problem. It sure surprised me on my first rides. Luckily it was a familiarisation ride late in the evening at an scarcely frequented road so I learned about this vice before it would surprise me while meeting oncomming traffic on this narrow road. The other thing is that plunging your sidecar into the ground (thus lifting the rear wheel of the bike) is by far the most dangerous move since once that is established, it just takes very little before the sidecar flips over. Most lethal accidents that occur with sidecars are due to this. Luckily, one has to yank very hard to the left in order to acchieve that and in most instances of impropper left side steering you would rather make your frontwheel slip sideways rather than putting your sidecar on its nose. But once that happens, there is a big risk, especially for the passenger in the sidecar, to get trapped and crushed by the weight of the bike. Lifting (flying) the sidecar on right hand turns is achieved quite easily and I would advise everyone to at least try that on a parking field a few times to get a feel for it as that situation (unlike the other) is relatively easily controlable and helps the rider getting used to the physics of sidecar riding.
ah: still one last thing to add:
if you climb a mountain pass that exceeds 2000 meters in altitude, be sure to carry an oxygen mask with you - not for yourself, but for the Ural! Although its named by a famous russian mountain range, it's actually a bike made for the russian tundra. Up to 1900 meters is usually fine, but above that you quickly might find yourself giving full throttle but not exeeding 40 kph in second gear - as once happened to me crossing the summit of the Bernina pass at 2400 m altitude. 😅
This is all terribly useful information, thank you! I wish I had a tachometer on it.
Have you any experience with the oil cooler?
@@bikerbobcat You mean that oil cooler kit that you can retrofit? No, I think those aren't even available here in Europe, where I live. We are much more restricted to what we can do with our bikes in terms of retrofitting compared to you in the US.
Wow I hadn't even considered that! I live in the Washington, DC-area and traffic is BAD and summers are only getting hotter, and I've been thinking about it for mine but only seen some mixed reviews. Some day they'll have a liquid cooled or electric Ural. Some day.
I also just HAD to go play in the snow! I'm headed off to get the mail in Minnesota in the winter. I never did put it away for the winter! (2017 Gear Up)
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Hell yeah! I'm envious of all that land and snow you have. Thanks for watching! If you're ever passing through the DC-area, look me up. I'll take you out for a ride and we'll get lunch downtown.
We had about. 6-8 inches of snow and, again, I just HAD to go play in it!
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Excellent! I'm jealous!
Just bought one a few weeks ago and the standout issue is the terrible suspension. I've had a go as a passenger and its not comfortable when you hit bumps and rough surfaces. I'm going to replace the shocks. Shouldn't have to do this.
I don't remember if the stock suspension is adjustable or not, I've never tried. The ride doesn't terribly bother me, and the one friend I had ride in the tub said it was fine for them too. Did you buy it brand new or used? Have you talked to the dealer at all? Thanks for watching, I hope things smooth out.
How is it for you to switch between a sidecar and a normal bike? Do you need a few minutes "adjustment period" or do you just hop on and go?
One of my biggest fears is that (once I finally own a Ural) my brain will need a while to understand the different physics involved, whenever I switch between bikes.
Your brain will have an adjustment period just like operating any new vehicle for the first time. It's the same way when you rent a giant moving truck you only ever drive once every few years. It may have much the same controls as your normal car but it is very different. Don't overthink it! Just practice a lot on your back streets and side roads and you'll be fine. What I didn't expect was how my 1800cc Valkyrie suddenly felt like this graceful, even nimble, machine and not the boat I was used to thinking of it as. Thanks for watching!
You will definitely need more than a few minutes to adjust to sidecar bikes like the Ural. While the handling of the functions (clutch, throttle, brakes) are the same, the feel and the physics are completely different. You cant initiate a turn by leaning your bike to the inside of it but instead you have to force it around and get used to the feeling of the bike sometimes leaning towards the OUTSIDE of the turn while you bend your body over to the opposite and in the same time try to make that frontwheel keeping track into the direction you intended to go. Imagine it like a rodeo on a longhorn cow or as fortnine said: "in soviet Russia, bike rides you"
That said: you don't have to worry about loosing your normal bike riding skills if you keep riding your normal bike as the feel of the two is so far appart that you won't mix up anything. That is, if you keep riding your normal bike from time to time of course. if you do it like me and let your normal bike and your car rust on the parking slot as I ride all year with the ural now, you might suddently find it awkward to sit on a normal bike.