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Plowing snow in Coeur d'Alene ID
by Lucky Lawrence
At Lawrence's Motorcycles in Coeur d'Alene, ID owner
Lucky shows off his mocked-up "Ural Patrol
Plow"... When it's 14 degrees outside, they'll
think up and try using anything to keep the parking
lot clear of snow so the serious riders can get
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From Halifax to Seattle And Back
by Lutz Kottwitz
There is a Ural dealer meeting in Redmond, East of Seattle in Washington…Considering the sky rocketing gas prices and that I do have some experience doing long trips on the motorcycle …I finally settled on taking the motorcycle and somehow thought that this might be quite suitable for a motorcycle dealer meeting after all…… continue ...
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1st Winter Ride
by Mike and Angie, Gananoque, Ontario
We woke up this morning to find that 10cm of snow had fallen overnight...continue ...
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Trapper Creek Alaska
by Pete Marsh, Chugiak AK
This video was taken near Trapper Creek Alaska...continue ...
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Ride Hard, Ride Free
by David Hooker
Well I finally got my Ural Gear-Up, here it is being delivered to my house right out of the truck...continue ...
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A machine built to last forever
by Walther in Stockholm
It all started about six months ago when me and my friend Egil I live with was surfing the Internet on our laptops in our living room. continue ...
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A Monkey's Story
by Becky Blosser
Vance hadn't had a motorcycle since the early '70's and had let his motorcycle license lapse. He saw an article in a Popular Science some time in the early '80's about Urals and that some firm was about to start importing. It was love at first sight (from a fairly small b/w picture)! Sadly, that importation deal fell through. Then life got in the way, and there was neither time nor money to pursue motorcycling.
I don't know HOW he found out about CMSI (then Ural America), but he did, and found a local dealer who sold him their '94 demo (in 1998).
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Why a Ural?
By Ed Paynter
Originally I purchased mine as a winter bike. :)
Most of us have seen movies of the WWII sidecar rigs rolling along snow covered roads. That's my first memories of sidecars and my first motivation to buy one....a snow bike, something to safely ride when the roads were unsafe on 2 wheels.
And they do great in the snow!! Think of the Ural as a motorcycle, ATV, and snowmobile rolled into one fun machine. Granted, it may not perform as well in any one role as the real McCoy...
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My Ride
by Hal Thompson
This was a trip I took on Tatar in 2002.
Day One:
As I reached the highway about a mile from the house, I turned west to the Glide Store to refuel before heading east up Hwy 138 toward Diamond Lake and points east. There were 6-8 fire rigs waiting to refuel, due to the big fire up river from us, so I decided to refuel in Cottage Grove, about 50 miles to the north, and take Hwy 126 through the Santiam Pass to Central Oregon.
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My Piece of the Pie
by Kate Field
It is 4 am on a Sunday morning. No, I am not all hopping around to go to a church service or just can't wait until I can make some toast and eat yet another cup of yogurt. I woke up at 4am thinking about Urals. Sounds crazy doesn't it? Despite what people might think about my need for a rubber-lined room, it was my travel yesterday that brought this all about.
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My Tovarishch
by Randy Patka
I purchased my '03 Ural Tourist on May 18, 2003 at age 54, as my first ever motorcycle. I had seen this style bike appear in a few movies (notably the last Indiana Jones film with Sean Connery) and it looked like a great way to enter the world of motorcycles-albeit the lunatic fringe- in relative safety and comfort. The perfect "geezer cycle". It also is a stand-out rig that proudly looks like nothing else on the road. You will NOT confuse my bike with a Honda, or Yamaha or Harley. Even at a FAR distance.
In the past 12 months of ownership I have logged 22,185kms on the odometer.
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Archie's First Ride
by Tom Wells
Archie is our 78 lb Boxer and my buddy. He's about four years old. I rescued him out of the pound a couple years ago and the pound people and a couple vets thought he was about two years old. So I suppose he was. He was extremely under weight. You could see every rib and vertebrae and his feet were bloody. I was lucky enough to be on hand when the truck brought him in. I grabbed his paperwork and said, "I want that dog." They had to hold him for five days during which he got a case of kennel cough. That is all history. He recovered and is very much a part of our family. Neatest dog we've ever had. And we've had a few. That's another story. Back to this one...
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