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Blue Ridge Wheeltor

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on: July 04, 2014, 03:31:08 am
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Reply #1 on: July 04, 2014, 05:10:55 am
Were you one of the riders in that video?

If you were, I can see why it is posted here.
If not, it seems to me  to be kinda like posting videos for Dodge Vipers on the Corvette web site.
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Reply #2 on: July 04, 2014, 06:53:27 am
Regardless, I thought it was pretty cool.  But maybe more appropriate for the campfire section.  Still cool.

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Reply #3 on: July 04, 2014, 10:38:49 pm
Great vid, thanks for posting.
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Reply #4 on: July 05, 2014, 12:34:01 am
Regardless, I thought it was pretty cool.  But maybe more appropriate for the campfire section.  Still cool.

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Wait... did I miss something?  This is the campfire section!


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Reply #5 on: July 05, 2014, 12:37:18 am
Wait... did I miss something?  This is the campfire section!

This was originally posted in the Sidecar section last night but Kevin moved it this morning.  Nothing special.  ;)
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Reply #6 on: July 05, 2014, 03:49:57 am
Pathetic! The top reason why one should not buy a Ural. A bike named after a chain of mountains and these riders have to use every ounce of energy to cross a stream. Really pathetic! I could ford that stream on a tricycle pulled by a couple Great Danes without as much effort. Truly one of the most pathetic videos I have been subjected to. Hog Wash......Ural Trash.......Climb that POS up a redwood and I might buy one. Soviet Steed my ASS!
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Reply #7 on: July 05, 2014, 06:08:06 am
I'm not sure my enfield could do that!
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Reply #9 on: July 05, 2014, 01:18:29 pm
I could ford that stream on a tricycle pulled by a couple Great Danes
 I'd pay to see that ;D
 
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Reply #10 on: July 05, 2014, 05:07:29 pm
Try crossing those streams with an Enfield hauling a sidecar and loaded like one can load a Ural.  I know, the Ural hacks were empty, but loaded, with weight on the sidecar wheel that's driven makes them pretty useful in rough or slippery conditions.

I don't understand the animosity toward Urals.  They are much like Royal Enfields:   They were designed and built in one country years ago, then built in another country relatively unaltered up to today, thus their design is very retro with some modern improvements; both marques offer a unique product that appeals to a small niche segment of the motorcycling marketplace, and overlap only in one small segment of that niche- sidecars,  and even there, having an RE hack and a Ural isn't redundant because they are very different in style, size, power, payload, dynamics and speed.  The RE is small, charming and cute for taking relatively small passengers on a gentle, leisurely ride on smooth country lanes; the Ural is big, rugged and more powerful for transporting full-sized passengers and/or a sizable load of gear at highway speeds and through rugged, unpaved trails. 

There's room for both in my garage without feeling that I have 2 identical machines.
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Reply #11 on: July 05, 2014, 08:59:42 pm

I don't understand the animosity toward Urals.

I don't either, I have three bikes in my garage, a 2000 Enfield, a 1994 Ural w/hack and a 1959 Harley FL. I love them all, along with just about any other brand motorcycle. Their all cool, some just more than others.
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Reply #12 on: July 05, 2014, 09:52:55 pm
I don't understand the animosity toward Urals.

I don't either, I have three bikes in my garage, a 2000 Enfield, a 1994 Ural w/hack and a 1959 Harley FL. I love them all, along with just about any other brand motorcycle. Their all cool, some just more than others.

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Reply #13 on: July 05, 2014, 10:14:54 pm
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Reply #14 on: July 07, 2014, 05:46:47 am
If I had the funds and garage space, I'd have an Ural in my collection...
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