URAL - New Owner Review of 2012 "Gear Up"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- A simple review and introduction to a Ural Sidecar Motorcycle. These are my thoughts after owning a 2012 Ural Gear Up for a month. The Ural is a Russian motorcycle with roots from BMW that started production in 1939. The details may have changed over the years but the Ural has retained the look and feel of the early years of production. It is slow and antiquated but offers utility and a different kind of fun.
Thanks very much, that was a great, and detailed review. I plan getting one next year. Love the Urals
Very informative! Appreciate you taking your time to share that.
Interesting machine
You did a Good job Describing things.
Best Wishes! M.H.
Good review, Michael - thanks. It would also be interesting if you did an equally thorough ride review.
Very eye-opening and thank you...
Excellent review. Thanks from FLA.
Great review Michael.......I'm really looking at one.......thanks.
Thank you, excellent video. I plan on getting one
OUTSTANDING!!!!
Thank you for describing the bike for a newcomer (to be).
I love the GEAR -UP model
I am putting a Cozy Euro sidecar on my 2021 Royal Enfield Interceptor the end of the month. I wish someone would compare these two rigs.
Thanks for taking time to do this. I'm very interested in the Ural; however, I have two Harleys. My wife won't let me add the Ural without getting rid of one or both of the Harleys. I don't know if I'm ready to do that. Gerry in Calgary.
I agree with the folks below. A VERY NICE REVIEW! Did you consider having the locks changed out by a smith so you could lock things up? Should be an easy and relatively inexpensive fix. Thanks again for the review.........Mike
Good review , well done .
Thanks for the review, seemingly the most matter of fact, and honest one I've seen. How comfortable is the seat on the bike? I go close to 300lbs and it looks smallish for my ample rear end, but that can be worked around. Not looking to go even 60 on this, just puttering around locally. Thanks again, Dan
+wick5449 The "tractor seat" is OK for around town. It is a lot like a bicycle seat. It is not made for comfort really but is low maintenance and simple. I have ridden about 150 miles on it with one break. They do make better seats much like other motorcycles that you might like better if you check out their other models.
+wick5449 I have a 650 version with pillion seat..its really comfortable atleast to me :)I weigh in at 110 kilos
This is very informative.
Just get one ...... I have two / an M70 & gear up / love both of them but the m70 is just better to ride ..... If you're not doing serious off road or winter riding the M70 with the road gears is the way to go IMO..... I've had them all & there's nothing like my Urals ........ But they are slower & not meant to be fast / the m70 with road gears is much more road friendly.......
How's it holding up?
Hello Mr Michael, thanks for review, very good, good details, i was at the ending waiting for the starting engine sound lol
-no so precision, it is russian that can sound offensive
Regards
I'm sure you've discovered by now that none of the Urals have a differential thus two wheel drive should only be used on dirt, gravel snow etc where the tires can be dragged when turning.
It's 2019 now.. Do you still have this bike and how would you rate it physically and mechanically?
Thank You! would you mind to tell us about fuel effieciency? (I heard of 37 mpg but I still doubt it a little). Tks!
Great review. Even from Russia Siberia :)
Изи, очень ИЗИ)
Tank is not meant for using water or gas. It’s for either gas only or water only
thanks a lot!
got it ......you have an old landy....and use that when things get bad.....the ural is for the other times...and enjoyment
re tyres on a sidecar bike should be square section on all three wheels and your tyre dealer should be able to get them if you stress this!
thanks still have and use the bike? I am really thinking of buying one but worried how reliable they are?
I still have it and ride it more than my other bike and it has not failed me yet but I do hesitate to drive it cross country although I have seen people do it.
Yes, no, yes, maybe, and how did you dent the sidecar.
Dixie Lough The previous owner hit a mailbox with the sidecar.
nice bike and great fun......but.....cant see myself on one in a snow flurry at minus 18 below at 30 mph the wind chill will kill ya .....the mpg would be fairly high also .........so honest question why not a little diesle 4x4 car with a good heater???
+barrie udall because theres no bad weather only bad clothes and with the right equipment its fun :)
Gas can means, Dont Mix gas and Water.....one or the other
Btw, the trademark (yet taking a rule on the IMZ - makers of URAL) owned since dark times' 1992 by some ex-soviet citizen Ilya, living in US. Now URAL motorcycles has many foreign parts, so if you're speaking about "Russian parts are not very reliable" please remember this, because when URAL was 100% .ru/.su before destroying USSR, it was reliable on 99.5%. JFYI.
Of course it got less reliable after it got brembo brakes instead of the shitty russian drumbrakes.
Reliable my ass. get real.
One month and you dented the sidecar already?
I bought it used. The previous owner hit a mailbox with it.
So how do you like it now that you may have had it for a while.
Tom Shepard I have since sold it for a Triumph Thruxton. I probably rode it more but I wanted to carve corners. It was going to need a paint job which was harder because it was powder coated.
@@landydrvr71 Awesome! I have several bikes so when I make the jump into Ural I think I will be fine. I am going to wait till the 2020 leftovers are being sold at closeout in a year or so before I get one. They made a lot of changes in model years 19 and 20. Love the Thruxton, its a great bike.
The only thing I didn't like was the limited speed. I couldn't take it on longer 4-lane trips without feeling I would get run over. The newer bikes are quicker. Mine was a 2012 and carbed and not injected. I sold a Triumph Street Triple to get the Ural. I like the Thruxton better than the Street Triple. The Ural is completely a different experience. I might add a sidecar to the Thruxton if I feel the need.
Will engaging 2WD make this rig faster on freeway?
No and it would be a bad idea. You should only engage 2wd off road because the diff will not slip and it will bind up the drive and probably break it.
@@landydrvr71 Got it, thanks!
Ulric had to go WEEEE.... The color of your bike does make it look more vintage. Really like the windshield on the sidecar. Little dent on the nose of it but on a Ural it looks fine. Maybe because they have that vintage look and expect them to be used. Ural has been making a lot of changes in recent years and its nice to see.
Can the side car handle a 300lb passenger at 60mph
Yes. If you can fit in it it will go. Acceleration and pulling left and right when slowing or accelerating will be more pronounced though.
Michael Thompson
Thank you very much sir,I'm looking at one in the spring and the maintenance videos look very straight forward,the Russian pro mo video on this thing was amazing to watch them literally beat the crap out of it!
The Ural doesn't have a differential.
Another thingie you might want to know - about "not very precision" - I just want to tell you that AK47 automatic rifle _also_ made with "not very precision", but enough to be simple and RELIABLE, because it is made for all weather - snow, sand, fire.. and this is why American soldiers have been (sometimes/often) throw out their M-16 rifles - made with VERY precision, yet being hammered with sand, and thus going out of order - and taking other's side AK's rifles , during Iraq war '91. Or, might be, other times too.
I agree with your thoughts on the AK vs the M-16. I am a fan of the AKs as well. But in comparing a Ural to a Honda in metal quality and machining, the Ural is no Honda for reliability. I have spoken to people that had final drives break, wheels crack, the old alternators would blow and motors seize. I am also a fan of old British cars and bikes and those too are not as reliable as modern ones. The production methods that they use in the Ural factory are not quite as modern as most of today's modern factories. That being said I think given the proper care a Ural can be a pretty reliable machine but if you treat it like most people do modern cars and just put gas in it I think it would fail. You need to take care of it like we used to take care of things in the 1960's and those skills are sometimes hard to find today with most young people.
Nowhere near honda's machining quality, but they may last as long.
Great video Marvin...
Todd Sadler
Maybe. It's just that Honda doesn't need rebuilds…
Todd Sadler
You have to buy the bike first and it ain't cheap…
Really like it though…
What color is the sky in your world?
Just 1 question, i know ur dis respect russians cuz communists etc but to me just interesting in America all services Amazon or mobile operators or any other company respect american ppl? if you pay - your got service right? Or you paying and sum shit going on for example you order sumthin from Amazon, 100% paid this order and waited 9 days and after you see in his app ur order was canceled without no reason, u call them and they say to you canceled cuz was no spot in our postmat to put ur order and without sorry say to you if want re order and wait again. 🤦♂️🤷♂️ Everything in Russia work like dat. Its fkn hell. So in America da same or not?
hehehe its not YPAN its spelled URAL in russian letters
git rid of the wind sheilds .you may like it more ..except for winter. been there. bike year around. lover they will miss you r. santa act. on the road again . just . bogart in ...were is my gift. ??? not to worry' hells angeles. will be by to make sure your happy. bikers are true bros. next to war vets.
Karl Doppelburger Nice video thanks for sharing your thoughts
о старый добрый урал, у нас они еще 70х годов выпуска гоняют хрен на новом японце догонишь. погнался я недавно на сузуки за дедом на урале он в танковом шлеме был ушел по проселку гад ))).
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Nice video ! Thanks for sharing yours thoughts ! Very informative
most informative Ural video I've watched thus far. Thanks!