I Bought The Ural Gear Up For This ONE Feature - But Has It Been A Dream Or A Nightmare?
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- ( tflbike.com/ ) In this video, Kase chats with Brian, who bought a 2011 Ural Gear Up in part for its one unique feature that sets it apart from pretty much any other bike on the road. Here's a deeper dive and Brian's experience with the bike so far!
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I purchased an early model Ural in 1997 from a tire store in Fayetteville NC. To my knowledge it was the only Ural dealer in NC at the time. There was a Russian mechanic working at the store. He tossed a couple of sandbags in the sidecar and gave me a quick riding lesson in the parking lot. It had a 500km break-in period not to exceed 30mph which made the ride back to Raleigh interesting. The early models were kick-start only and they tended to idle very badly when hot so it would stall out a lot at stop-lights in traffic, which required lots of emergency kick-starting in congested traffic. The early tires wore out in about 2k miles but were very inexpensive to buy replacements. It came with tire levers in the tool-kit so I learned to change my own tires. It also had an oil bath air filter like my 60's Volkswagen bug, so you never had to buy an air filter. There was no oil-filter, just a screen so that saved money too ;).
I had lots of adventures on that bike and met the most interesting people when repairing something on the side of the road. Each oil change revealed a layer of metal particles at the bottom of the drain pan. That let you know it still had some bearings left. That early model had a generator rather than an alternator and they were notorious for failing, as was the drive shaft spline. I carried a spare drive shaft after the first one failed, along with many other spare parts. When the generator failed hours away from home a kind soul gave me a car battery which I placed in the sidecar and wired up. The low tech engine didn't need much juice to keep it running, but there was not enough to keep the headlight running.
The engine didn't have enough oomph to make it up moderate hills over 40mph so I kept a sign on the back of the sidecar that said (sorry, antique motorcycle). That reduced the amount of honking and rude gestures. The rings were shot after the first 10k so I pulled the heads, had them resurfaced and replaced the pistons and rings with a better set. Those lasted longer.
I loved that bike and took long trips, with it, sometimes camping by just pulling a tarp from the sidecar staked to the ground and sleeping beside it. There was nearly always a story to tell when I returned. You could never be in a hurry and just had to expect the unexpected. I met more people when riding the Ural than any other bike I've owned. When I got married, my wife was not as enamored of it as I was so I sold it. Who knows, maybe I'll buy another someday. I wonder what it would be like for it to have fancy stuff like an electric start and disc brakes?
My 1999 Ural tourist it's the first year with the electric start it has drum brakes all the way around it has Mikuni carburetors on it and Mikuni are good carburetors enough for die-hard Harley guys to put on their bike and not bitching about it being a Japanese part I have over 45,000 miles on my bike now 40000 that I put on myself in the five years I've owns the bike but it used to be number three in line between my other two BMWs now why you should ask my everyday bike for the last couple of years since I got creamed on my BMW by a woman driver used urals are inexpensive and for what you pay for them it's like buying the sidecar and getting the motorcycle for free you do try to make them into something they are not like a highway screamer when I go on the highway I go 55 Mi an hour in the slow lane and people take pictures of me as they passed me wise love them because they can sit there and drink coffee or read a book or take a nap and then she a lot more scenery than just the back of her husband's head and they're much more stable than a regular motorcycle so they are much more safer you shouldn't deny yourself one of the greater Pleasures in life you never know when life ends
@@frankmarkovcijr5459ваш Урал имеет бесконтактное зажигание, или классическое с кулачком на котором нужно регулировать зазор? В России мотоциклы Урал в сельсой местности были почти в каждом дворе. Эта техника использовалась не для развлечения. Это был единственный транспорт и на нём ездили на работу, возили мешки с зерном, сено для домашнего скота.
Ural improved a lot the quality of its products since 2011.
Thanks for sharing my bike and the wonderful benefits of Kongspension 😅.
It was nice meeting you two. Keep up the great work guys!
Thanks for bringing it by!
Glad to see there is a Ural fan in the MinDak area :)
@@thedakotakid74 There are dozens of us
It's covered in mud and he ask if it's ever been off road. BRILLIANT
He asked to get me to talk about it. FYI this was all done in one take. Kase did a fantastic job and I was surprised at how natural he is when doing a video.
I was thinking the same
I’m into Ural big time. They are allot of fun but you have to stay up on maintenance and ride them within their limits. It’s a duck not a swan. If your expecting Honda reliably this is not it. It you want to do 70 mph or more down the highway, this is not it. If your a shy person and don’t like being approached by people, then this rig is definitely not it. But if your ok going at around 55 to 60mph and also meeting people because you will get approached allot, If you don’t mind tinkering, then a Ural is for you.By the way, the 2wd feature is just to get unstuck. It’s a lock differential so riding on the hard road surface engaged could damage the final drive and the rig will fight you and pull hard to the left. Think old 4wd truck.
UDF, Ural Delay Factor, having to talk to people about your bike every time you stop. The two wheel drive was made a solid locking system because if it had a normal differential the rear wheel would lose power when the sidecar wheel lifted and if you are stuck with one wheel spinning the same result.
I would probably have gotten one if there was a dealer closer to me and I had more time to ride. got a Strom instead.
They need to fix the reliability issues is what needs to be done. They are doing it but slowly at least there's that but the cost has gone up. These bikes need to be doing 80mph comfortably because you at least need to have some wiggle room on highways. Maybe another 10 years it'll get to that point. It is a Russian so it's a turtle when it comes to refinement.
Nothing cooler than a 2WD motorcycle.
He could try to adapt one of those fwd kits and have a 3wd bike
Everything I've read about side-car specific bikes is that the leading link front suspension allows for better steering and control.
I bought my 2010 Ural Gear Up four years ago, and I am the third owner of this rig. I ride it all year long, in North Eastern Ohio. I love it so much I sold my car and now only ride my bike. it is a total blast each time I ride up to the store or just take a long putt. it is the perfect ride for me a one-legged rider (missing my right leg from above the knee). the looks of total amazement on people's faces... first, staring at the bike, and then seeing a one-legged dude getting off it... simply priceless!
Very interesting! I have seen Urals but have never gotten any details about them. Thanks.
Just be aware that Urals were produced from the 1940's till today with varying standards in quality. As a rule of thumb you can say that they made great improvements in quality and reliability from 2007 onwards. Today's Urals are of far better quality compared to even 2007-2010 Urals, though much more expensive too. You can find good quality built Urals from the 1970's and earlier, although thats a bit of a gamble. Urals built in the late 1980's to early 2000's - especially the 650 cc models - are known as "drive an hour - repair 2 hours" motorbikes. You'll find many old Urals driving around in the former Soviet countries while today's Urals are almost exclusively been produced for western markets.
I've got a dealership in town here selling these and they look so damn fun
What town ?
After WWII Ural Motorcycles started building civilian grade motorcycles for Soviet Union Citizens. They built KMZ in Kiev, Ukraine where Dnepr military grade motorcycles were produced for the Soviet Union military and foreign military sales. Ural 2 wheel drive systems simply locks the two wheel's together. Dnepr 2 wheel drive system is full time 2 wheel drive but can also be locked using a lever making it a solid axel drive as well. KMZ remained in business until 2001. The then unemployed workers broke into the factory and stole all the motorcycle production equipment before the Chinese got it. Today parts and entire Dnepr military grade motorcycles are still made Cottage industry style all around Kiev Ukraine in back yard garages and shop's. They are legal to import into the USA to this very day. I found one that sat in a barn from 1992 until it came up for auction at the estate sale. I was the only bidder for it. I spent the entire winter of 2018/2019 restoring it. I had to take absolutely everything apart due to very bad assembly, repair or replace bad part's, and then properly reassemble it. It's actually a good reliable motorcycle now and I ride it a lot.
I’d love to add a dnepr to my collection. Which 2wd systems are still made? What’s the engine like compared to the 750 Ural? Dry clutch too?
@@BB-nn9en It's the same 2 wheel drive system made up until 2001. Single wheel drive is also available. The clutch is the same as Ural. The engine has been modernized with a spin on disposable oil filter, 800cc engine, electronic ignition, and electric starter. Google " Arbalet Motorcycle " for more information. Also if you check Facebook marketplace every now and then a Dnepr will be found that's for sale. Owners must work on their own bike's so you must check them carefully before buying one so you are not buying someone's problems or it's completely junk.
I had a Ural [called Cossack back then] The brakes were useless drum brakes. The suspension at the front was standard forks, I think these leading link fors are much better for a sidecar outfit. Also no electic start, kick only.
Nice content. Nice guy. Cool bike. Thanks for this guys. :)
Hey, guys, that bike looks like old BMW bikes because it was basically a modified/upgraded clone of WWII era BMW bike that was used by the German Army. Actually, most Soviet mass-produced products were clones of some Western models, which is sad because they did have some pretty impressive, ingenious designs of their own but for one reason or another (mostly due to bureaucratic reasons) never got the funding to turn into real projects.
Nothing like youth "discovering" antique tech for the 1st time...!
We've all been there.
I added a police seat my bike years ago and that’s the way to go you get rid of the air suspension because it leaks and they have kong dog toys in red and black red is a little softer
My dog has a Kong frisbee is the only thing he can’t eat I think they should make tyres out of this stuff
Great find!
i want a 2022 model so bad
yes bobcat me too....glad i waited to now, 22 models added sum great stuff, especially the bembo brakes
Thanks for posting I'm lucky live in South Florida fairly close to holy Paul your dealer which Honda made it I was standing in linee
Great find. They were BMW knock-offs but the quality wasn't the same as German engineering standards. My buddy's was cool as hell but with him being a perfectionist, every imperfection drove him crazy. Sidenote- some of the shots included the Port-a-Potty farm which is arranged differently then the way we grow them in the Northeast. Got a farm and a ranch on my road, I'll see what I can find out.
Quality has been a major focus of the current owners of the company. Parts that couldn't be made in Russia to high enough quality standards have been outsourced from Germany and other countries. If you compared all of the parts from a 2000 Ural to a 2021 model the number of parts that have been improved is very long, from large items (engine internals redesigned when they went from 650cc to 750cc) to small ones like bearings in the rear swingarms instead of bushings. They have become dependable machines so long as you operate them as they were designed for (I.E. avoid interstate highways for long periods of time, don't try revving it up to Japanese RPMs etc.) I have a 2004 and it's been pretty much gas and go except for a few teething issues in the early days. Mine was the 1st Retro Sidecar made for export to the US.
@@vanceblosser2155 true, the story starts with BMW R71 750cc and Russian-German treaty against Poland in 1939. First produced in Moscow as M72. After the German attack the factory evacuated to Irbit in the Ural Mountains. In the post war times another factory opened in Kiev, Ukraine with a model K750, then they were dowsized M72 to Ural 650cc and K750 to Dniepr 650cc. The factory in Kiev closed in 1991 (I suppose) after the soviet union collapse. Nowadays the Irbit factory is run by theChinese management I think. Personally I ride Dniepr MT16 2wd. Quality poor, but the fun is great. The story of the soviet boxera in a nutshell. Cheers
@@aleksanderwojciechowski2124 The change to 650cc was done when they went from flathead engines to overhead valve.
The Irbit factory is owned by 3 Russians, one who lives in Washington state where the US headquarters is. I met all 3 owners at the factory in a visit in 2005.
@@vanceblosser2155 yeah, as for the volume changed that's correct I knew it, about the ownership I wasn't sure. Thank you. Cheers
You idiot, if Soviet engineers wanted to make a copy of a German motorcycle, it would be a copy.But it's not a copy.And it means that your comparison is empty. It's like idiots from the Internet who compare
Sturmgever-44 with AK-47 only because they are similar in outline.
Cool trike. I will buy one in my future
That would make me and my Pitbull very happy!
Great video!
Really very useful good product
"Even the front engine cover looks kinda like one of the old BMW airhead engines."
There's a reason for that.
The engine is a BMW copy from way back in WW2, under liscence
Not licensed. Stalin ordered them to create a motorcycle for military service. The BMW R71 was serving the Germans well, so they obtained one and copied it.
@@1guyin10 Actually the factory isn't sure which story is correct. One is that they were licensed, another says that 5 BMWs were smuggled in and reverse engineered. 5 bikes were imported, but the versions manufactured complied with the plans made by BMW more than they did the 5 imports. They said it's lost to time now.
It’s also known that one way or another they had the plans from bmw. There was a Soviet engineer who worked for bmw who ended up working on the Soviet bikes
@@BB-nn9en This is covered in great detail in the book of Soviet Motorcycles by Mike Weaver. It's a great book if you can still get a copy it's worth it.
@@vanceblosser2155 And, the Russians licensed the B-29. Wake up, comrade!
Back in the old days the factory would melt down truck differentials and stuff like that for the quality steel and then turn it into the bike
Maybe one-sided Earle's fork next.
Более надёжные мотоциклы начинаются с 2016 года так сказали
The Kong suspension lmao
These bikes were originally thought to be the ones that conquered Russia, but the reality was that it was the T-34 that took Berlin !!!
I have a 1999 Ural tourist first year with electric start drum brakes all the way around Mikuni carburetors which are the only Japanese Parts on the motorcycle all of the so-called new improved parts are ten times the price of the Soviet Parts they replaced for example a set of German shocks are $2,500 stainless steel exhaust system is at least $2,000 bikini fuel injection system is $1,500 I had my bike seven years and after we went through the teething pains after it was in storage for 20 years but had only four thousand original miles on it I used it here and there because I had two other BMWs in my stable now since one lady took me out on my BMW 1000 Class 7 it is the only bike I use I usually Daily for transportation if fire is up first kick everything works on my twenty-five-year-old Soviets Bilt motorcycle when my motorcycle was built they make 600 a day one every two minutes because they work and overpriced expensive toy they were used in countries where you could not afford to buy a car and the roads that they call roads we would call cart paths or goat trails a lot of countries in the Soviet Union and communist countries in their block or customers for soviet-built motorcycles these were not rich prosperous Western countries therefore they could not pay huge prices for a motorcycle my friend who used to help me with my BMWs because nobody would touch them had a Nipper sidecar rig I drove it around the yard never having driven a sidecar rig before and it was fun it wasn't too bad the paint so looks like they let a three-year-old child paint the motorcycle but paint is something easy you can fix with canned from the hardware store as long as the rest of the bike works good my 25-year old bike seems to be more reliable than any of the fuel injected bike I watch the videos and all these bikes have ridiculous low mileage for failures of critical items and with the heat and lenus of the fuel injection when they tear down in engine the Pistons look like they've been barbecued Airhead BMWs are the coolest motorcycles on Earth they run 100 degrees cooler than a Harley but all the fuel injected by are jetted so lean so they run so hot capaz ridiculous admission controls everybody knows me for riding my bike I bought a 67 BSA Starfire 250 from a swap meet last year for 500 bucks delivered to my house and I was telling the guy where I lived and he said that's okay I know where you live I go to get a new license plate because of the accident I get to have a cripple plate now boy did I earn that and the girl behind the counter goes oh oh your uncle Frank the BMW guy yeah that's me I carry anything and everything on that bike and refer to it as my truck it has been super reliable and because of the Simplicity of the bike I am able to do many things myself and the things I cannot do myself I will take it to Gene at Hollow park Ural very knowledgeable dealer always has parts very helpful has a great mechanic who works there I get all of my Ural parts there my point is the motorcycle is not the Russian POS that people say it is neither do you have to work on it everyday I just do regular maintenance like changing oil and filter and tranny oil and final drive oil and tires and cables as needed the bike that I bought for $4,000 to replace it exactly would be over $24,000 I love the fact that new bikes despite the price don't stay on showroom floors at dealers very long and used bikes are snapped up as soon as they are available if I was younger and could still see at night I see no reason why I would not have the sidecar rig towing a nice camping trailer but now I enjoy day trips around 200 miles that helps fill up my days and the sidecar rig makes running for groceries or any other errands fun motorcycles tend to do that but sychar rigs are better at it get one take care of it maintain it write it slow enjoy the scenery y'all enjoy it
Спасибо, за любовь к нашим мотоциклам
see my channel, will just leave it there, they are what you make of them and my 2011 has 110K KM...actually, the front end is not from WW2, that is much, much later...hey, the kong idea was mine from 10 years ago...some people...
and Brian, your petcock appears to be on "prime"...
@@JamesAllmond James , ya snooze ya lose in regards to bringing Kongspension to the masses 😅.
Thanks for the heads up on the petcock. I was having issues with it which is why I had it on prime. its already been replaced.
I’ll be sure to check out your channel, thanks.
You kids are real cutties , lol . Welcome to old man world
Kinda dumb to say looks like a BMW. It is a vintage BMW .
Nothing like camping in a tent next to a shit house
WHO'S GIRLFRIEND IS SHE???
It looks like a BMW because that is what the Russians copied to make it. Later on the Chinese got tooling from the Russians and made their own copies.
I can't imagine having that much money to flush down the toilet. I get the nostalgia BUT they are juuuuuuuunk
You should get a hobby and then you will understand that money is not the reason people engage in endeavers. Its called living
The newer ones are not junk. At least not more so than your average Kawasaki
@@jessewoody5772 I have several, including motorcycling. I have had bikes from most of the major manufacturers and have enjoyed them all. I have NEVER had issues from them compared to those exhibited by EVERY Ural I have seen tested. This is literally an expensive gimick.
Well, Larry, I’ve had two (‘04 Tourist and now a ‘12 Gobi). The ‘04 had an electrical gremlin that took a while to expunge. 48,000 kilometers and it was fine. The ‘12 has been flawless (approaching 20,000 kms).
The post-2019s are even better.
I just did a 750 mile road trip on my 2019 Gear Up. Ran great, no problems, and averaged 41mpg.
Isn't that the model Joe Biden rides?