funky lever set up.Nothing wrong with three wheels!
Picture my wife took when she and I were taking my mother-in-law on a day trip from Nanjing....2006 Chang Jiang, No electrical reliability, underpowered at 12HP, and 1937 technology down to the wax paper covered spark wires......HAD complete blast on it and wish I had sent it back to Texas instead of trading it in on the next bike I had while there.
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Yes, that is the OEM setup. Straight out of 1940 Germany. The Russians took the tooling from Germany and then gave it to China after they upgraded their Ural designs.funky lever set up.
Is that the OEM configuration ?
THANKS FOR THE COOL BACK STORY.Yes, that is the OEM setup. Straight out of 1940 Germany. The Russians took the tooling from Germany and then gave it to China after they upgraded their Ural designs.
Bike was POS by our standards but it worked. China's military used them up thru the late 90's. Seriously old school with horrible reliability but could be fixed with the tool kit included. I once seized it up and local guy came out to the remote location I was at and we rebuilt the engine on the side of the road. I laughed the entire time that it would never last but I never had another engine problem and I had it for another year and half. Electrical would make Lucas Prince of Darkness look good so I found a guy who had electronic conversion and that helped a lot. New rig cost me less than US$2000. 00 in 2006. Two other expat friends and I working over there and bought 3 of them and spent hours roaming the countryside around Nanjing. God damn good times and memories
As I said, I should have simply shipped it over here to Texas. Sorry for the hijack of a Ural thread but these were renditions of the first urals. If wrong, please feel free to move or remove my posts.
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Sadly, Niki has passed and the bike has moved on.
Yeah, I like to think I gave that dog the best life she could have. She went to work with me every day on her motorcycle. She joined me on many wonderful adventures. When she got to the point that she couldn't climb up in the sidecar I decided to sell the rig.Awesome pics!
Friggin' allergies over here...Yeah, I like to think I gave that dog the best life she could have. She went to work with me every day on her motorcycle. She joined me on many wonderful adventures. When she got to the point that she couldn't climb up in the sidecar I decided to sell the rig.
Yeah, I'll reach down at work out of habit, and boom allergies. Huge empty spot....Friggin' allergies over here...
Did you buy the new GU? It would be nice to get a 2020 leftover.I've be considering a sidecar for a while. I'm getting to the point where it it's either a sidecar or some other 3 wheeler, or give up riding.
I'm back and forth between a build with a Triumph Speedmaster and a Watsonian, or a Ural. There's a new leftover Gear Up for sale for a decent price at a dealer in Quebec. It'd be a 1300 km round trip to go get it. I'm aching with the temptation.