This video is about a ride in the snow with my Ural in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2014-03-16. Filmed with my GOPRO and put together with IMOVIE.
Riding a 2012 "Ural Gear-up" (Gobi) Russian motorcycle with sidecar is an adventure by itself. Maximum speed of 100 km, this 2 wheels drive can go almost anywhere. The Ural is between a snowmobile, an ATV, a dirt bike and a motorcycle. It is good, on pavement, dirt, sand, snow, to drive in the country side, off road or on the high way. First you need to forget most of your riding skills, as this is not a motorcycle anymore. The best way to learn how to operate it is to hit the road, play with it and have fun. It's a 750cc angine drive shaft. Maybe they will call me for the next James Bond, Bourn or Indiana Jones. Possibility for an Oscar, Emmy or Golden Globe Awards!!!
IMZ-Ural (Russian: Ирбитский мотоциклетный завод, tr. Irbitskiy Mototsikletniy Zavod) is a Russian maker of heavy sidecar motorcycles. Recently the company has developed a solo motorcycle with no sidecar.
In 1940, the Soviet Union acquired the design and production techniques for BMW R 71 motorcycles and sidecars. The first M-72 model was finished in 1941. Originally, factories were to be located in Moscow, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), and Kharkov, but due to the approach of Nazi German troops, the Moscow facilities were moved to Irbit, and the Leningrad and Kharkov facilities to Gorkiy (now called Nizhny Novgorod).
A similar model is the Soviet (now Ukrainian) Dnepr motorcycle. Both Ural and Dnepr motorcycles are sometimes known by the generic name, "Cossack motorcycles," which was used between 1973 and 1979 by SATRA in the United Kingdom.[1]
Plans for the M-72 were later sold to the Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation, a Chinese industrial firm, to build the Chang Jiang.
This video was taken in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. GOPRO black.
March 16th, 2014.
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