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Slaughter
Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 05:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yeah - I can't help but "lump" the Urals and the new Enfields together.

Ural would be a fun ride for around town but it's a shame to be on a "modern" bike and always have to be aware of how far you have to walk.
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Slaughter
Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 06:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

(he he heee... I said "lump")
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Ezblast
Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 09:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Rex - obviously the primary was too tight.
EZ
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Tramp
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 09:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've worked on both, and, believe me, the Enfield is MUCH more well-manufactured than the Ural
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Paint_shaker
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 09:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I wouldn't mind having a RE or a Ural with a hack. Sure would beat firing up the diesel to go grocery shopping!!
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Brumbear
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 10:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I have heard the Ural of the past 3 years are a much more well rounded machine but I do not know for sure
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Tramp
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 12:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Good point, Brumbear- I haven't wrenched on that new a model, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that their exporter, etc., is bringing them up to some standard...esp. considering they really couldn't have gotten any worse.

Why anyone would buy one of those instead of a 1970s BMW boxer is beyond me...esp. considering the great deals out there on BMWs
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Court
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 12:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm a big fan of the new "global economy" . . . but will confess it's much easier for me to accept Buell world sourcing than to see MADE IN MADRAS INDIA on the Royal Enfield.

It's really not a bad looking bike and I've got some dandy compr shots as we have a "real" (as in old Brit bike) Royal Enfield and a new (as in Indian import) Royal Enfield that sit outside the office.

With fuel prices racing cigarette (now just shy of $10 pack) prices to the sky the Manhattan mike population is soaring by the day. . . as, by the way, are the number of squids (LIE was closed for 4 hours on Friday) who are taking "Lane Splitting 101" and finding out that life and XBox aren't exactly the same.
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Tramp
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 12:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"...who are taking "Lane Splitting 101" and finding out that life and XBox aren't exactly the same"

genius.court
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Metalstorm
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 02:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Didn't Peter Egan of Cycle World and his wife take a Ural on a good long trip?

I think I recall reading something like that in one of his articles.
I think top speed was 60. It leaked a little oil but she got from point A to B if I recall correctly.

I'm pretty sure the riders had a good time on it and that's what matters most I'd think.
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Tramp
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 02:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The machine that Egan used was very likely run-through with all torque values, etc., reset.

Again, it's highly likely that the Urals of the past 5 years are highly improved...couldn't have gotten any worse.

I've performed far too many top-end jobs on Urals.

riders can't have a good time on a scoot with a seized mill.
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Metalstorm
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 03:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I don't know about "highly" improved, maybe just a "little" improved : )

Excellent point, the bike Egan used probably was gone over with a fine tooth comb prior to the trip.
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 04:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The Urals have come a long way, now electric start (kicker back) upgraded electrics, fuel injection, larger displacement (750cc avail.) and of course the side car. My friend works over at the H-Q in Redmond. Crazy bunch of Russians. If you ever want a party, those guys have the best way of getting ALL the party stuff up into the woods on the bikes.
; ) And the more vodka I drink, the better my russian gets.
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Tramp
Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 05:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Great to hear.
Frankly, if you want a cool retro former warsaw-pact scoot, stick with the Jawa
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Brumbear
Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 08:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I had a JAWA 90 back in the day I learned to ride a clutch with it when I was 10 my first bike was a honda ct70 automatic I also bought a jawa ice bike off a junky for $50 with a buddy of mine when I was a teenager damn thing only turned 1 way
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Brumbear
Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 08:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The European Bike I always wanted was a Maico I loved and still love those machines the Germans can make em baby
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Tramp
Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 10:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"Viva Montessa"
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Tramp
Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 05:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

cityxslicker said:

"And the more vodka I drink, the better my russian gets"






until some leftover, hot female cossack arrests you
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Prof_stack
Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 06:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Back to the OP's subject:



Very primal looking motor.
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Tramp
Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 08:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Primal as a Buell...
Anyway, back to Russians-
The Russian mob scares the begeeziz outta me.
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Brumbear
Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 09:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The best scam of the Century goes to Ivan they bought like a million gallons og gordons vodka at pennies to the dollar tinted it blue sent it to Russia as windshield washer fluid upon entry to Russia they took out the blue food coloring and sold it as Vodka beating the Russian gov't outa millions in taxes

SIMPLY BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Court
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 06:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

>>>The Russian mob scares the begeeziz outta me.

And with good cause. The upside is that they have great taste in cars. Three years ago someone bought the old house 3 doors from us, did a complete rebuild.

Now it sits there, shall we say "well protected" with 3 Escaldes backed in, one of those XLR whatever 2 seater, a Bentley, a Rolls convertible and a stretch Lincoln.

A neighbor went to greet the new neighbors and was told, in broken Russian by a guy with a shoulder holster, to leave the property.

I am now protected on BOTH sides as the neighbor on the other side is the "tow yard operator" who leaves every morning in a driven S63 with a pair of black Hummers, one ahead and one behind.

Crime is non-exisitant in my neighborhood.
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Tramp
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I know your neighbourhood very well.

The mob there are not actually Russian.

That's all JAK controlled...
more bloodthirsty than the Russians, more careless....Montenegrans, Albanians and Serbs
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Thumper74
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 11:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"Tow yard operator" Did I miss something?
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Tramp
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 05:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"Tow Yards" in the Boroughs are not exactly like tow yards in the rest of the country.
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Rex
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 05:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

EZ. I thought it was just my weight...ahahhaha. Maybe my primary was too tight....REX
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