I have had three flats on my 2015 all on the pusher and all because of something I picked up. I've gotten good at changing the tire along side the road. I, too, am pretty particular about maintaining my machine and it has been very reliable for me.
Ural could go one of many ways. Opening a US facility, that maybe builds, supports, retrofits older rigs maybe an idea. Or bring the entire operation over here. Increasing the power plant, may change the entire look of the classic ural. And if so, the cost would be passed down to us. It is always going to be a niche market.
Thanks for the info on the ural. I am looking to buy one for my wife, myself and our dogs and good to hear a real world perspective. If you could put videos up of your maintainance and checks that would be great. Thank you. Happy Uraling!!
Last May I rode my 2012 Gear Up from Key West, Florida to Anchorage, Alaska and the only maintenance I had to preform was change the rear tire in Canada. Needless to say, I have nothing but good things to say about Ural reliability.
That is the service interval on the 2013 and older Urals. When you upgrade to the spin on filter, you can double the service interval to 5000 km. Our new 2017's call for an oil change every 3000 miles (not km any longer).
good video with all good service principles. I've found with my iron barrel & my uce Royal Enfield that the BLUE Loctite is my FRIEND, not so much the Red, but the BLUE keeps me from having to overtighten nuts & bolts keeping the threads intact as well as keeping them from vibrating loose or off. Those bikes still have a LOT of vintage/pre technology characteristics.
Those u-joints w/out a zert can be serviced by disassembling them, cleaning, greasing, and reassembling them. Its tedious but doable. If the replacement has a zert, might be easier to just get one of those
@@GoneUraling What about the 2018s? There's a local dealer who has a brand new one at a good price. I like the looks and the sidecar for throwing stuff in, but I don't want something that requires constant fiddling with and checking on.
@@AlphariusMemegon "I don't want something that requires constant fiddling with and checking on." Then you don't want a Ural. Our 2017's have been much less "fiddly" and are doing well, but you do have to check, grease, tighten, eyeball, keep up the maintenance etc... this is all normal stuff. This is NOT a ride and forget bike. While 2019+ are even better, you still have to take care of them. I mean, there is a chunk of rubber in the drive train, you can't forget that and just keep riding, it must be inspected regularly and replaced.
@@GoneUraling I should have been more specific. I don't mind taking a good look around the bike every thousand miles and making sure nothing looks obviously worn out and tightening anything that's started to loosen. That's something you should probably do anyway. But I do have a problem having to do that every couple hundred miles for the entire life of the bike. Especially considering that 100 miles in a week wouldn't be hard for me to do.
@@AlphariusMemegon While riding, I always give the bike a quick look whenever I stop. Nothing extensive, more like I'm admiring the bike to the observer. I rarely find anything, but did find a lose bolt on my reverse lever once and a loose bolt on my windscreen. When my wife and I are on a road trip, at the end of each day I always take 5 to 10 minutes to look over both rigs, check and top off the oil, look for anything loose and give the FD bolts a tweak to make sure they are still tight. I look for signs of leaks etc... again, I rarely find anything and frankly I don't care what I was riding, I'd do the same. We make 2000 to 3000 mile trips (before this C stuff started) and we have close to 20,000 miles on both the 2017 rigs. The cT lost and ECU due to water, I had to remove a seized up steering damper while traveling. We had a check engine light on the cT, sorted by the nearest dealer on our route, turned out to be a previous dealer's mistake when programming the new ECU that had failed, but otherwise, nothing major. I do not feel like I am working on them all the time, but I do feel they take more attention and maintenance than the average "Jap bike". It's really about setting your expectations and keep in mind, newer rigs are completely different than those of even 5 years ago.
Idk I just wouldn’t buy a Russian bike lol now if I could get a sidecar for my Suzuki DRZ that would be cool... got 62 thousand km on her with 0 issues just oil changes and two spark plugs and tires in that amount of time! Incredibly reliable eh ✌🏻🇨🇦 Ural looks cool though
"True of any bike?" Really? Like which ones? 'Honda/Yamaha/Suzuki/Kawasaki?' Which of these makers require 'constant checking?' (other thanscheduled maintenance)
I had a GB Cossack many years ago, great fun, but so unreliable. No doubt the newer ones are much better. One issue to note, there was some odd noise coming from the sidecar wheel. On checking, not only was the bearing loose, but so were the spokes, you could jiggle it an inch or two. Not far off disaster! Maybe I just had to much fun taking left hand corners, was careful on rh, only once lifting the car. The car was on the wrong side for GB, did not do anything for the nerves of the passenger when you changed gear and the rig twitched towards the oncoming traffic!
Hi Mark ! Was that Cossack an Ural? I'm asking just because as far as I know there were a lot of russian brands exported into Britain under the name Cossak.... Ural, Dnepr and even IZH ( 2 STROKED Cosack Jupitar). I hope you will excuse my lack of information but, I'm realy interested in knowing things about russian brands!
In my experience Urals are as reliable as Harley Davidson's. Ride them between 50 and 60 mph and don't scream the revs, service them properly and they last as long as air cooled beetles, about 120 000 kilometres between overhauls.
I agree with you on all points. I bought a brand new 2015 Gear-up as soon as it hit the showroom. I am totally green with motorcycles, let alone Urals. I have had a lot of problems, and I would say a lot of them are due to lazy upkeep on my part. Another contributing factor is that the retailer who sold it to me, and was supposed to be my local service center, closed down exactly one year after selling it to me. The closest qualified mechanic for Ural is 332 miles away, and the local motorcycle dealers and repair shops REFUSE to even touch a Ural. A Ural is a helluva fun ride, but be prepared to spend some time maintaining it. Also, find some local hack riders. I have found that a lot of hack owners are very cool folks, and they are always willing to share their experiences and knowledge.
@@kikisekscotermann5332 Ural is a friend for a man with his hands. There is nothing complicated in it that you yourself could not fix. treat him with respect and he will never let you down. Regards from Russia.
With a good service manual and a phone so you can call a good dealer working on your gyro is not a big deal and it's nothing to be afraid of with simple hand tools you can fix damn near anything it might take you much longer than a real mechanic you save money in the long run as well as having the satisfaction of saying I did it myself
I'm so impressed by your comments, and willingness to share your experiences and tips. I've got a 2021 Triumph Rally Pro, and wishing it could fit a sidecar // probably will sell by spring 2023, I have a strong interest in the Urals.
The newer the Ural, the better they are. We have been enjoying our 2017 models and did upgrade them to the Gen2 EFI. Just got back from the Barber Vintage Festival, I rode my Retro and my son rode his Janus Halcyon.
These people that think more power and more speed is the key to enjoying our Euro are so wrong Euros are not high-speed motorcycles they are like a plow horse a plow horse is not a thoroughbred it can run but it can't run flat out all day and I don't know what you refer to as an old Euro my 1998 year old is old compared to a 2022 but not so much to a 1965 or earlier I love my sturdy Russian tank of a motorcycle it's much cooler than any run-of-the-mill Harley and I love to kick-start at your front of them to show you how you start a real motorcycle and I love it when I show up in all the magazines for people take pictures of me and my rig
If you mean a family that shoots fast and has fun... could be. My Daughter grew up (things like that happen) and she was driving that channel. My Son still maintains it, but we don't do much video for it any longer. Sam still gets screen time though in the movies and several TV shows. You can find her in Kevin Probably Saves the World, she was real sorry when that show was cancelled.
Urals? Reliable? Could be...but what would I know... After about 50 or 60K stuff starts to stay tight, sort of. Your older Ural should have a crown nut and cotter key! Y'all's Patrol has a much better life with you all than it did before she got to you!
Great video. Great maintenance attitude! Why did you pick a russian rig of all things? I really admire your presentation. I have great respect for them because I'm from there, just really interested why a true American would find this technology appealing.
99% of the issue I've had with my 2015 gear up EFI have been due to lack of knowledge and ability to maintain the bike. But every time something breaks, I get to learn how to fix it. As far as tires going flat.I had 3 flats on the pusher in the first 1000 klm on the brand new rig. The spokes were causing the flats. They would chew through the rubber strip and then the tube. I talked to my dealer on the third flat and he sent this plastic rim tape. 6000 klm later still no flats. Up side I can change our a pusher in about 30min
ok... spokes aren't supposed to do that. check out some vids on trueing rims. it is not fun, but it sounds like something you should have done with the first flat. or maybe the shop should have cause it should have been under warranty? weird that it didn't come equipped with a rim band like all dirt bikes usually do, but nowadays bearings come without the outer race so ...... cool you don't mind learning as you go, has it been a crash course? I am an MMI grad, and all of the complaints I hear are maitinance related so I am really tempted to get one of these.
On the 3rd blow out I took the rim to the dealer I bought my last bike from. He said the rim was fine. It had a rubber rim band but that's it. The bike was brand new. I hope like heck the rims would be true. lol. I love the bike.
spoke rims get knocked out of true easily enough, then there is some movement and a pinch in the tube. trueing stands are easy to make. couple 2x4's and a bolt. it is a process that will drive you mad though, if you let it! the rims would have to be way out, or you would have to be going fast to notice. its basicly the same as balancing the tires on your car, only using tension on the spokes instead of weights to get the wheel to run true..... I think I'm gonna buy one, why not? sounds like they are good bikes.
One mans tinkering is another mans Pain in the ass!!! The ural junk but i love them,i wont own one ,i want one bad but they are only fun....till they're not.ive read extensively for about 7 yrs about them and sadly there is a theme.....consistant breakdowns and constant tinkering and the parts network is unreliable.....but i still want one.....
The 2019 and 2020's are a real game changer for Ural. It's still a Ural with the feel and some of the quirks, but the engine is much improved. Our 2017's are proving to be about 1/2 the maintenance effort our 2008 and 2010 were.
You do have to have a good knowledgeable dealer and sometimes a dealer closest to your house doesn't know what she's there doing I have ridden 50000 miles on my gyro no tinkering no constant tightening things up I run 50 55 on the interstate when I have to get on the interstate I just go in the slow lane and let everybody Pass Me By like it says in the owner's manual in big black letters the bike is not a Speed Demon and from what I've heard of Harley and problems with their new motor service record on my Ural makes it look so much more reliable it fires up first second kick I won't be first there but I'll get there and I'll wave at you as the highway patrolman give you your speeding ticket
To all the people that like to call the Ural a Russian POS and that having to take care of it as a sign of crappy quality is so wrong people like to badmouth to British bike in the old days yet two British companies in the 60s up till the early seventies with cell every motorcycle they could build people who bad-mouth the Ural cannot explain why a used bike shows up for sale and is snapped up right away brand new bikes don't stay in dealer showrooms long Royal Enfield is bad-mouthed as an Indian POS yet they make 900,000 motorcycles a year new ones on the showroom floor I sold within days and used bikes within hours if they were so horribly pieces of garbage people wouldn't want them even on modern Japanese motorcycles you still have to change the oil filter coolant final drive oil in your shaft adjust the valves periodically replace Tires and Brakes and batteries as needed you have basically a 1940s Antique motorcycle if you had a 1940s antique car you would have to do more maintenance to its then a modern car but that does not mean it is a POS now my experience is with my 1999 carbureted drum brake model I like drum brakes my British bikes with drum brakes can burn Rubber stopping in Florida with the wild pigs running loose the drunks the children who don't know how to drive the old people who forgot how to drive and drive around in a coma you bet your ass you need good brakes every time I replace my back tire and I get 78 thousand miles out of a back tire nice $40 Euro 308 from Dennis Kirk and while the wheel is off I have the brake shoes adjusted out to compensate for the shoe wear and my brakes are as good as new of course the independent shop I have tires done at the owner jokes that the bike is so slow it doesn't need brakes I actually got pulled over by a sheriff for dawdling he mentioned that he was interested in the bike and was looking them up on the interweb and we started chatting about device and I told him about my experiences and the reliability of my bike excetera excetera and because he had his lights on his police car people would not pass us and we had traffic backed up all the way to the bridge in Punta Gorda when I looked back and saw cars as far as the eye could see I said maybe we should get going so these people can move because I can talk about urals 4 hours I love the Euro July factor I love talking to people about the bike and its history for the Euro March when the Soviet and the Nazi Empires were partners the bike is a piece of History it is not retro it is old school the real thing it is not pretending to be something it is not like all of the modern b******* retro bikes we have today if you can buy a brand new hardtail Harley knucklehead you would have to do more maintenance to it than a brand-new 21st Century Harley of course brand new Harleys are garbage and the old bikes are 10 times better
I am frankly surprised at the problems the new urals have with fuel injection problems and rim splitting on their Italian rims and your various issues with the electronics I'm not a big fan of electronics go fuel injection causes the motorcycle to run so lean it runs super hot my carbureted Ural runs cool even in the Florida summer all of my idiot lights work the only Japanese Parts on my bike are the Mikuni carburetors and Mikuni makes great carbs I know guys who build Harleys with 100% American parts but a lot of them will put a Mikuni carburetor on their Harley because they are a great carb it is pathetic that the Brembo brake master cylinders have to be rebuilt every 7 years that can ridiculously expensive operation to have to do with three Master cylinders every 7 years I broke a brake cable on my bike and I replaced it with a new cable in 30 seconds side cars are not for everybody either you love them or you hate them they are not like riding a solo motorcycle and they are not like riding a trike they are their own animal truthfully I probably have more fun riding this bike than any other in my collection the older bikes are more simple and in my mind more reliable than the newer ones I watch lots of videos on newer bikes and iWatch five-year-old bike engine rebuild with ridiculously low mileage I run cheap 87 regular gas in the bike and it runs great I might put a little octane booster or carburetor cleaner makes in with the gas because the gas we have nowadays is garbage I remember when I was a kid you would drive to the gas station with your dad and stick your head out the window and breathe deep because leaded gas smells wonderful the new gas smells like cat piss wall of the heavybilt Soviet Parts on my bike are in good working order I have no problems with the wheels the rims the electric nothing my bike sits out all day in the Florida sun and rain and wind it's got some rust on the sidecar tub no doubt about that but it's 25 years old and it's 95% solid with my injuries from my last motorcycle accident I can only drive it maybe 100 miles at a time and then 100 miles home but that's okay because I like to spend my money locally I like supporting my independent motorcycle shop in my town and what I have had to fix something on the bikes that none of the Harley mechanics would do it gives you a great sense of Pride to do it yourself and it gives you a bond with the bike that you would otherwise not have it's like a big Goofy dog that loves you and sometimes gets hurt and when he does you have to take him to the vet the bike needs you and after you fix it can you both go for a ride it's even more satisfying the Millennials think there is nothing more Macho than kick-starting a motorcycle acceptance now a days a Ural is about the only motorcycle with a Kickstarter my 1999 was the first year with the electric starter all of my British bike are all kick only the only proper way to start a motorcycle is to kick- start it no one is impressed by pushing a button especially the girls I am so glad my outfit does not have any pollution controls whatsoever today's motorcycles are not really motorcycles they are collection of government regulations on two wheels they are as unmanly as the guys who ride them the kind of guy who changing the oil on their motorcycle they equate with tearing the whole bike apart they are afraid to get their hands dirty it might ruin their mani-pedi and God forbid if they got sweaty then they would have to go shower with their body wash and then after they shower they can put their manly makeup on the only man who should wear makeup is a clown there are very few real honest motorcycles out there anymore but do Ural at least he's still one of them Triumph isn't Triumph anymore Harley-Davidson it's going down the same road they're all fake phony Pretenders and a pale imitation other bikes that they emulate everything is crap nowadays you have 600 channels of crap on the satellite dish all of the movies are crap nobody has any original ideas everybody copies old movies and original is always the best whether it is a TV show or a movie or music the original is always the best and the copies always suck
Your comments remind me of when I was in the Army talking about the M4...if you take care of it then it won't fail. I don't know if the Ural is a good bike or a POS...but the comment that if you take care of something then it will be OK is used way to much to justify crappy products.
Ural has it's QA issues, no doubt. But if you get one and decide to use cheap oil, double the oil change interval, forget to change the oil, don't check things on a regular basis, it's not a Honda, it will fail and leave you on the side of the road. It is what it is, know that going in and do what's required, you can have a good rig.
@@GoneUraling that's all well and good until you miss something during one of these checks or until you this a pothole and brake something. I'm honestly not here to argue, I'd like a Ural but for the price they ask the quality needs to improve a lot. It's easy to say if you replace worn stuff before it breaks you won't have a breakdown...but that stuff wears fast and costs money. If it's any consolation this very statement is why I also will never buy another Harley. If your getting top dollar I want top quality.
Corey Brass I agree. I really like the idea of an Ural and love the way they look, but here in The U.K. , the price for the most basic version, (no rear foot pegs, pillion or tank rubbers etc), is approx £14,500. You could buy three Royal Enfields for that kind of money. Better still, buy two RE”s and fit a sidecar to one... best of both worlds and you’d probably still have change from £14K. Alternatively, you could have a new BMW RnineT for approx £10,500 and get a sidecar for around £2.5K. We don’t have the driven sidecar wheel option on Urals here in the U.K so the only real advantage I can see that they have, is the reverse gear, but it’s a lot of money just to be able to reverse.
The Ural sidecar rigs are a very reliable motorcycle if you drive them the way they're supposed to be driven you can't be speedgaming and go like a bat out of hell down the freeway I love the people that do that spin a bearing in the engine and then blame the motorcycle people nowadays are so stupid so many of them should not be on a motorcycle at all you could do stupid stuff in a car and be saved by a millionaire bags you do stupid stuff on a motorcycle you die
"Maintenance is critical!"...or else you walk. Okay, then. No need for more 'droning' after(4:30) because five-minutes of 'qualifying pre-ambles' before saying 'yes/no/maybe' is just too 'effin much.
Very good thoughtful review
Thank you.
I have had three flats on my 2015 all on the pusher and all because of something I picked up. I've gotten good at changing the tire along side the road. I, too, am pretty particular about maintaining my machine and it has been very reliable for me.
While I agree on the maintenance mindset, a Japanese bike can be ignored for 10,000 miles and run flawlessly.
I love the Euro idea pictures look great bike Harley-Davidson just so overpriced underpowered
so do Evo Harleys,they are very dependable and also come with sidecars.I will be looking for an Evo rig,used they are not much more than a used Ural.
But what fun is that hahahahaha
Fuckingyesfuck.
it's like taking care of an old BMW. maintenance, maintenance, maintenance and it will serve you well.
Ural could go one of many ways. Opening a US facility, that maybe builds, supports, retrofits older rigs maybe an idea. Or bring the entire operation over here. Increasing the power plant, may change the entire look of the classic ural. And if so, the cost would be passed down to us. It is always going to be a niche market.
Thanks for the info on the ural.
I am looking to buy one for my wife, myself and our dogs and good to hear a real world perspective.
If you could put videos up of your maintainance and checks that would be great.
Thank you.
Happy Uraling!!
Last May I rode my 2012 Gear Up from Key West, Florida to Anchorage, Alaska and the only maintenance I had to preform was change the rear tire in Canada. Needless to say, I have nothing but good things to say about Ural reliability.
Really? Your owners manual says to change Engine oil and Filter every 2500km(1553miles).
That is the service interval on the 2013 and older Urals. When you upgrade to the spin on filter, you can double the service interval to 5000 km. Our new 2017's call for an oil change every 3000 miles (not km any longer).
Are you still in Anchorage?
You got a good one
good video with all good service principles. I've found with my iron barrel & my uce Royal Enfield that the BLUE Loctite is my FRIEND, not so much the Red, but the BLUE keeps me from having to overtighten nuts & bolts keeping the threads intact as well as keeping them from vibrating loose or off. Those bikes still have a LOT of vintage/pre technology characteristics.
Doh!!
Didn't look through all your previous videos.
Sorry! Have found some of your maintainance videos.
Thank you. Very helpful.
Happy Uraling!!😊
I want to buy A Ural
Make sure you join SovietSteeds.com then!
Those u-joints w/out a zert can be serviced by disassembling them, cleaning, greasing, and reassembling them. Its tedious but doable. If the replacement has a zert, might be easier to just get one of those
I just replace them with one with a zerk fitting. It's far too easy to just shoot in some grease vs. tearing it apart to put grease in it.
What a great video! You have a great voise to listening to! Thanks fore all the advise. A friend from Sweden 👍😊
I sure wish any of the four step MC companies would make a good three wheeler yonkuro I would have one
The 2019 Ural is pretty good, water's fine, jump on in!
@@GoneUraling What about the 2018s? There's a local dealer who has a brand new one at a good price. I like the looks and the sidecar for throwing stuff in, but I don't want something that requires constant fiddling with and checking on.
@@AlphariusMemegon "I don't want something that requires constant fiddling with and checking on." Then you don't want a Ural. Our 2017's have been much less "fiddly" and are doing well, but you do have to check, grease, tighten, eyeball, keep up the maintenance etc... this is all normal stuff. This is NOT a ride and forget bike. While 2019+ are even better, you still have to take care of them. I mean, there is a chunk of rubber in the drive train, you can't forget that and just keep riding, it must be inspected regularly and replaced.
@@GoneUraling I should have been more specific. I don't mind taking a good look around the bike every thousand miles and making sure nothing looks obviously worn out and tightening anything that's started to loosen. That's something you should probably do anyway. But I do have a problem having to do that every couple hundred miles for the entire life of the bike. Especially considering that 100 miles in a week wouldn't be hard for me to do.
@@AlphariusMemegon While riding, I always give the bike a quick look whenever I stop. Nothing extensive, more like I'm admiring the bike to the observer. I rarely find anything, but did find a lose bolt on my reverse lever once and a loose bolt on my windscreen. When my wife and I are on a road trip, at the end of each day I always take 5 to 10 minutes to look over both rigs, check and top off the oil, look for anything loose and give the FD bolts a tweak to make sure they are still tight. I look for signs of leaks etc... again, I rarely find anything and frankly I don't care what I was riding, I'd do the same. We make 2000 to 3000 mile trips (before this C stuff started) and we have close to 20,000 miles on both the 2017 rigs. The cT lost and ECU due to water, I had to remove a seized up steering damper while traveling. We had a check engine light on the cT, sorted by the nearest dealer on our route, turned out to be a previous dealer's mistake when programming the new ECU that had failed, but otherwise, nothing major. I do not feel like I am working on them all the time, but I do feel they take more attention and maintenance than the average "Jap bike". It's really about setting your expectations and keep in mind, newer rigs are completely different than those of even 5 years ago.
Idk I just wouldn’t buy a Russian bike lol now if I could get a sidecar for my Suzuki DRZ that would be cool... got 62 thousand km on her with 0 issues just oil changes and two spark plugs and tires in that amount of time! Incredibly reliable eh ✌🏻🇨🇦 Ural looks cool though
All good points. So much of this would be true of any bike--- some people just not up for hands-on maint.
It is the same with Harley-Davidson bikes, if you don't keep up with the maintenance... it will break down on you.
"True of any bike?" Really? Like which ones? 'Honda/Yamaha/Suzuki/Kawasaki?' Which of these makers require 'constant checking?' (other thanscheduled maintenance)
I had a GB Cossack many years ago, great fun, but so unreliable. No doubt the newer ones are much better.
One issue to note, there was some odd noise coming from the sidecar wheel. On checking, not only was the bearing loose, but so were the spokes, you could jiggle it an inch or two. Not far off disaster! Maybe I just had to much fun taking left hand corners, was careful on rh, only once lifting the car. The car was on the wrong side for GB, did not do anything for the nerves of the passenger when you changed gear and the rig twitched towards the oncoming traffic!
Hi Mark ! Was that Cossack an Ural? I'm asking just because as far as I know there were a lot of russian brands exported into Britain under the name Cossak.... Ural, Dnepr and even IZH ( 2 STROKED Cosack Jupitar). I hope you will excuse my lack of information but, I'm realy interested in knowing things about russian brands!
Yup, a Ural 650
@@markthomasson5077 Many thanks, bro!
My 2013 Gear Up has been great 27500 kms no big problems, Eats gas and tires
In my experience Urals are as reliable as Harley Davidson's. Ride them between 50 and 60 mph and don't scream the revs, service them properly and they last as long as air cooled beetles, about 120 000 kilometres between overhauls.
I agree with you on all points. I bought a brand new 2015 Gear-up as soon as it hit the showroom. I am totally green with motorcycles, let alone Urals. I have had a lot of problems, and I would say a lot of them are due to lazy upkeep on my part.
Another contributing factor is that the retailer who sold it to me, and was supposed to be my local service center, closed down exactly one year after selling it to me. The closest qualified mechanic for Ural is 332 miles away, and the local motorcycle dealers and repair shops REFUSE to even touch a Ural.
A Ural is a helluva fun ride, but be prepared to spend some time maintaining it. Also, find some local hack riders. I have found that a lot of hack owners are very cool folks, and they are always willing to share their experiences and knowledge.
Yeah.. well.. I think ill stick to Honda. Thank you for sharing. I am interested in Ural bikes but - not sure about getting it.
@@kikisekscotermann5332 Ural is a friend for a man with his hands. There is nothing complicated in it that you yourself could not fix. treat him with respect and he will never let you down.
Regards from Russia.
With a good service manual and a phone so you can call a good dealer working on your gyro is not a big deal and it's nothing to be afraid of with simple hand tools you can fix damn near anything it might take you much longer than a real mechanic you save money in the long run as well as having the satisfaction of saying I did it myself
I'm so impressed by your comments, and willingness to share your experiences and tips. I've got a 2021 Triumph Rally Pro, and wishing it could fit a sidecar // probably will sell by spring 2023, I have a strong interest in the Urals.
The newer the Ural, the better they are. We have been enjoying our 2017 models and did upgrade them to the Gen2 EFI. Just got back from the Barber Vintage Festival, I rode my Retro and my son rode his Janus Halcyon.
You and I have the same maintenance attitude.
I am looking for a teardrop to pull behind my Ural Gear-up 2018 ?
I pull a max of 350 lbs trailer included. Going higher than that on a Ural is possible (we towed 550 lbs to Savannah GA) but it was not comfortable.
These people that think more power and more speed is the key to enjoying our Euro are so wrong Euros are not high-speed motorcycles they are like a plow horse a plow horse is not a thoroughbred it can run but it can't run flat out all day and I don't know what you refer to as an old Euro my 1998 year old is old compared to a 2022 but not so much to a 1965 or earlier I love my sturdy Russian tank of a motorcycle it's much cooler than any run-of-the-mill Harley and I love to kick-start at your front of them to show you how you start a real motorcycle and I love it when I show up in all the magazines for people take pictures of me and my rig
I saw a real old Ural in passing yesterday.
Own a 2013 gear up...0 problems.. just normal maintenance.. it gets off road too...
Too cool for school, like your style.
I would buy one if they had a bigget engine like a 1200cc freeway speed limits are 75mph on up
Keep the 1200cc, give me 5th gear! Really, a well managed 750cc with a 5th gear would be plenty.
You sound JUST LIKE a GA guy whose family has a great gun channel!!! Are you the same???
If you mean a family that shoots fast and has fun... could be. My Daughter grew up (things like that happen) and she was driving that channel. My Son still maintains it, but we don't do much video for it any longer. Sam still gets screen time though in the movies and several TV shows. You can find her in Kevin Probably Saves the World, she was real sorry when that show was cancelled.
Eh, just get a small separate audio recorder and sync it up later. This camera is definitely not doing you justice
Uralistic !!!
Urals? Reliable? Could be...but what would I know... After about 50 or 60K stuff starts to stay tight, sort of. Your older Ural should have a crown nut and cotter key!
Y'all's Patrol has a much better life with you all than it did before she got to you!
It's all in what you make of it, THAT's part of the adventure. Yours should turn 100k soon!
Love to read about Ural motorcycles Sherwood some jab company will make a three wheeler with a pusher
Great video. Great maintenance attitude! Why did you pick a russian rig of all things? I really admire your presentation. I have great respect for them because I'm from there, just really interested why a true American would find this technology appealing.
A true American?
German designed Russian built versus Japanese designed built ?
The fact it old tech and not western. Love my 2007 Patrol. It's not a speed demon which the kids enjoy.
Yep, it'll take you anywhere you want to go for the most part, just not "fast".
99% of the issue I've had with my 2015 gear up EFI have been due to lack of knowledge and ability to maintain the bike. But every time something breaks, I get to learn how to fix it. As far as tires going flat.I had 3 flats on the pusher in the first 1000 klm on the brand new rig. The spokes were causing the flats. They would chew through the rubber strip and then the tube. I talked to my dealer on the third flat and he sent this plastic rim tape. 6000 klm later still no flats. Up side I can change our a pusher in about 30min
Brandon Phillips Other upside: it actually has a spare tire!
ok... spokes aren't supposed to do that. check out some vids on trueing rims. it is not fun, but it sounds like something you should have done with the first flat. or maybe the shop should have cause it should have been under warranty? weird that it didn't come equipped with a rim band like all dirt bikes usually do, but nowadays bearings come without the outer race so ...... cool you don't mind learning as you go, has it been a crash course? I am an MMI grad, and all of the complaints I hear are maitinance related so I am really tempted to get one of these.
On the 3rd blow out I took the rim to the dealer I bought my last bike from. He said the rim was fine. It had a rubber rim band but that's it. The bike was brand new. I hope like heck the rims would be true. lol. I love the bike.
spoke rims get knocked out of true easily enough, then there is some movement and a pinch in the tube. trueing stands are easy to make. couple 2x4's and a bolt. it is a process that will drive you mad though, if you let it! the rims would have to be way out, or you would have to be going fast to notice. its basicly the same as balancing the tires on your car, only using tension on the spokes instead of weights to get the wheel to run true..... I think I'm gonna buy one, why not? sounds like they are good bikes.
To slow, they are underpowered , for the money, 1200 liquid cooled upgrade, and those would sell like crazy.
One mans tinkering is another mans Pain in the ass!!! The ural junk but i love them,i wont own one ,i want one bad but they are only fun....till they're not.ive read extensively for about 7 yrs about them and sadly there is a theme.....consistant breakdowns and constant tinkering and the parts network is unreliable.....but i still want one.....
The 2019 and 2020's are a real game changer for Ural. It's still a Ural with the feel and some of the quirks, but the engine is much improved. Our 2017's are proving to be about 1/2 the maintenance effort our 2008 and 2010 were.
You do have to have a good knowledgeable dealer and sometimes a dealer closest to your house doesn't know what she's there doing I have ridden 50000 miles on my gyro no tinkering no constant tightening things up I run 50 55 on the interstate when I have to get on the interstate I just go in the slow lane and let everybody Pass Me By like it says in the owner's manual in big black letters the bike is not a Speed Demon and from what I've heard of Harley and problems with their new motor service record on my Ural makes it look so much more reliable it fires up first second kick I won't be first there but I'll get there and I'll wave at you as the highway patrolman give you your speeding ticket
To all the people that like to call the Ural a Russian POS and that having to take care of it as a sign of crappy quality is so wrong people like to badmouth to British bike in the old days yet two British companies in the 60s up till the early seventies with cell every motorcycle they could build people who bad-mouth the Ural cannot explain why a used bike shows up for sale and is snapped up right away brand new bikes don't stay in dealer showrooms long Royal Enfield is bad-mouthed as an Indian POS yet they make 900,000 motorcycles a year new ones on the showroom floor I sold within days and used bikes within hours if they were so horribly pieces of garbage people wouldn't want them even on modern Japanese motorcycles you still have to change the oil filter coolant final drive oil in your shaft adjust the valves periodically replace Tires and Brakes and batteries as needed you have basically a 1940s Antique motorcycle if you had a 1940s antique car you would have to do more maintenance to its then a modern car but that does not mean it is a POS now my experience is with my 1999 carbureted drum brake model I like drum brakes my British bikes with drum brakes can burn Rubber stopping in Florida with the wild pigs running loose the drunks the children who don't know how to drive the old people who forgot how to drive and drive around in a coma you bet your ass you need good brakes every time I replace my back tire and I get 78 thousand miles out of a back tire nice $40 Euro 308 from Dennis Kirk and while the wheel is off I have the brake shoes adjusted out to compensate for the shoe wear and my brakes are as good as new of course the independent shop I have tires done at the owner jokes that the bike is so slow it doesn't need brakes I actually got pulled over by a sheriff for dawdling he mentioned that he was interested in the bike and was looking them up on the interweb and we started chatting about device and I told him about my experiences and the reliability of my bike excetera excetera and because he had his lights on his police car people would not pass us and we had traffic backed up all the way to the bridge in Punta Gorda when I looked back and saw cars as far as the eye could see I said maybe we should get going so these people can move because I can talk about urals 4 hours I love the Euro July factor I love talking to people about the bike and its history for the Euro March when the Soviet and the Nazi Empires were partners the bike is a piece of History it is not retro it is old school the real thing it is not pretending to be something it is not like all of the modern b******* retro bikes we have today if you can buy a brand new hardtail Harley knucklehead you would have to do more maintenance to it than a brand-new 21st Century Harley of course brand new Harleys are garbage and the old bikes are 10 times better
I am frankly surprised at the problems the new urals have with fuel injection problems and rim splitting on their Italian rims and your various issues with the electronics I'm not a big fan of electronics go fuel injection causes the motorcycle to run so lean it runs super hot my carbureted Ural runs cool even in the Florida summer all of my idiot lights work the only Japanese Parts on my bike are the Mikuni carburetors and Mikuni makes great carbs I know guys who build Harleys with 100% American parts but a lot of them will put a Mikuni carburetor on their Harley because they are a great carb it is pathetic that the Brembo brake master cylinders have to be rebuilt every 7 years that can ridiculously expensive operation to have to do with three Master cylinders every 7 years I broke a brake cable on my bike and I replaced it with a new cable in 30 seconds side cars are not for everybody either you love them or you hate them they are not like riding a solo motorcycle and they are not like riding a trike they are their own animal truthfully I probably have more fun riding this bike than any other in my collection the older bikes are more simple and in my mind more reliable than the newer ones I watch lots of videos on newer bikes and iWatch five-year-old bike engine rebuild with ridiculously low mileage I run cheap 87 regular gas in the bike and it runs great I might put a little octane booster or carburetor cleaner makes in with the gas because the gas we have nowadays is garbage I remember when I was a kid you would drive to the gas station with your dad and stick your head out the window and breathe deep because leaded gas smells wonderful the new gas smells like cat piss wall of the heavybilt Soviet Parts on my bike are in good working order I have no problems with the wheels the rims the electric nothing my bike sits out all day in the Florida sun and rain and wind it's got some rust on the sidecar tub no doubt about that but it's 25 years old and it's 95% solid with my injuries from my last motorcycle accident I can only drive it maybe 100 miles at a time and then 100 miles home but that's okay because I like to spend my money locally I like supporting my independent motorcycle shop in my town and what I have had to fix something on the bikes that none of the Harley mechanics would do it gives you a great sense of Pride to do it yourself and it gives you a bond with the bike that you would otherwise not have it's like a big Goofy dog that loves you and sometimes gets hurt and when he does you have to take him to the vet the bike needs you and after you fix it can you both go for a ride it's even more satisfying the Millennials think there is nothing more Macho than kick-starting a motorcycle acceptance now a days a Ural is about the only motorcycle with a Kickstarter my 1999 was the first year with the electric starter all of my British bike are all kick only the only proper way to start a motorcycle is to kick- start it no one is impressed by pushing a button especially the girls I am so glad my outfit does not have any pollution controls whatsoever today's motorcycles are not really motorcycles they are collection of government regulations on two wheels they are as unmanly as the guys who ride them the kind of guy who changing the oil on their motorcycle they equate with tearing the whole bike apart they are afraid to get their hands dirty it might ruin their mani-pedi and God forbid if they got sweaty then they would have to go shower with their body wash and then after they shower they can put their manly makeup on the only man who should wear makeup is a clown there are very few real honest motorcycles out there anymore but do Ural at least he's still one of them Triumph isn't Triumph anymore Harley-Davidson it's going down the same road they're all fake phony Pretenders and a pale imitation other bikes that they emulate everything is crap nowadays you have 600 channels of crap on the satellite dish all of the movies are crap nobody has any original ideas everybody copies old movies and original is always the best whether it is a TV show or a movie or music the original is always the best and the copies always suck
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Your comments remind me of when I was in the Army talking about the M4...if you take care of it then it won't fail. I don't know if the Ural is a good bike or a POS...but the comment that if you take care of something then it will be OK is used way to much to justify crappy products.
Ural has it's QA issues, no doubt. But if you get one and decide to use cheap oil, double the oil change interval, forget to change the oil, don't check things on a regular basis, it's not a Honda, it will fail and leave you on the side of the road. It is what it is, know that going in and do what's required, you can have a good rig.
@@GoneUraling that's all well and good until you miss something during one of these checks or until you this a pothole and brake something. I'm honestly not here to argue, I'd like a Ural but for the price they ask the quality needs to improve a lot. It's easy to say if you replace worn stuff before it breaks you won't have a breakdown...but that stuff wears fast and costs money. If it's any consolation this very statement is why I also will never buy another Harley. If your getting top dollar I want top quality.
Corey Brass I agree. I really like the idea of an Ural and love the way they look, but here in The U.K. , the price for the most basic version, (no rear foot pegs, pillion or tank rubbers etc), is approx £14,500. You could buy three Royal Enfields for that kind of money. Better still, buy two RE”s and fit a sidecar to one... best of both worlds and you’d probably still have change from £14K.
Alternatively, you could have a new BMW RnineT for approx £10,500 and get a sidecar for around £2.5K.
We don’t have the driven sidecar wheel option on Urals here in the U.K so the only real advantage I can see that they have, is the reverse gear, but it’s a lot of money just to be able to reverse.
The Ural sidecar rigs are a very reliable motorcycle if you drive them the way they're supposed to be driven you can't be speedgaming and go like a bat out of hell down the freeway I love the people that do that spin a bearing in the engine and then blame the motorcycle people nowadays are so stupid so many of them should not be on a motorcycle at all you could do stupid stuff in a car and be saved by a millionaire bags you do stupid stuff on a motorcycle you die
"Maintenance is critical!"...or else you walk. Okay, then. No need for more 'droning' after(4:30) because five-minutes of 'qualifying pre-ambles' before saying 'yes/no/maybe' is just too 'effin much.
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