Inspired by the sandy dunes of the great Sahara desert and also by the wildly popular European Pustinja model, Ural is bringing the Limited Edition Gear Up Sahara '09 to America.
It is considered to be the Limited Edition for 2008, but it was sold in 2009 as a 2009 Model Year. Unfortunately for all of us there were only 50 Sahara bikes built for the U.S. market and they are pretty much impossible to find, because there owners have absolutely no desire to part with them.
Any military theme Ural looks like it just came from the Indiana Jones era, but what makes the “Sahara” and “Pustinya” belong to that era even more is the fact that all bike parts are painted the same color – bike and sidecar frame, suspensions, arm and levers, wheels … everything. This is tedious and time consuming process that was only done on “Sahara”, “Pustinya” and “Taiga” Limited Edition Urals. On all other Urals these parts are painted in flat black and body parts are painted in specific color.