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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Carrollton, GA
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With enough duct tape, anything is possible!
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First Rule of Aviation: -Never Pass Up The Opportunity to Pee I was struggling to get my wife's attention; I sat down on the couch and looked comfortable. That did the trick! My wife says I only have two faults. I don't listen and something else... If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way I told you to... The Stable: 2005 Yamaha V-Star 650 - SOLD 2015 Suzuki DR 650 2015 RPS Hawk 250 - SOLD 2016 Ural Gear Up |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Elburn, IL
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Windiest ride ever yesterday.
Mrs. C wanted to do an ice cream ride and she said let's take the motorcycle. The wind was howling out of the southwest. We are talking 50 mph gusts. I can't even use 4th heading west or south. So it's 3rd and 4600/4800 rpm to make maybe 50 mph. The Maggot would shrug at 4600 and plod on, but the Ural has a 5800 red line. Trying to keep the speed down heading north or east was somewhat of a battle, too. Suffice it to say, after the buffeting for the 50 miles we rode, I was beat. When I was younger and doing 25K time trials on a bicycle, we'd call that 'not enough motor going out and not enough gear back' on windy days.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Elburn, IL
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Approaching a milestone. 31068 miles equals 50,000 kilometers.
![]() I still have folks tell me what a POC* Urals are, that the engine will grenade because of the spin on filter upgrade, my hitch tube will fail and cause an accident. Bless their hearts. The little beast just keeps on chugging along. *I will admit that the speedometers can be crappish, though one guy at SS has rolled his original speedo over twice.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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#501 |
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Myrtle Creek Oregon
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I forgot to tell you! On the 27th of May I was driving up to Eugene, 90 miles away, and going down the interstate was a Ural with a side car! I think it was blue in color? Pretty sure he had bugs in his teeth from smiling. Anyway, thought of you!
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Location: Elburn, IL
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I did the 50,000km service yesterday. I've been run so hard that it took almost an entire year to knock out the 2,000 miles since the last service. I have the deep sump, so I can push it a bit farther. Anyway, engine oil, filter, and final drive. Tranny is every other oil change. Since I rebuilt the final drive a few years ago, it's always a good feeling when the gear lube drained out is almost the same color as the new lube going in.
Only headache was that I replaced the Mann 75/3 filter with a Hi-Flo filter that is about 1mm taller than the Mann filter. That made it a bit of a struggle to get the filter over the the crossover pipe. I glared at the filter and it slipped into place. I was going to rotate the pusher and hack tires but both are so worn that I'll just replace both tires this fall.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Carrollton, GA
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One of my buddies from the airport I fly out of called me late saturday night, and said that they needed some help. They were in the walmart parking lot with a lady who had an older carbureted Ural, and it wouldn't start. At first they thought the battery was dead, so they tried push starting it, and the back tire just completely locked up. Then they noticed fuel dripping out the left side carb. I pulled the plug, and sure enough the whole cylinder was full of go-juice. I checked the oil, and the crankcase was also full of gas floating on top of what was originally a proper amount of oil. I took the other plug out, and it was completely dry, although it looked like it was running just a bit rich. I tried to turn the engine over with both plugs removed and it didn't budge. Uh-Oh... I think that with the cylinder full of gas, when they tried to push-start her, it bent something important in the engine.
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First Rule of Aviation: -Never Pass Up The Opportunity to Pee I was struggling to get my wife's attention; I sat down on the couch and looked comfortable. That did the trick! My wife says I only have two faults. I don't listen and something else... If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way I told you to... The Stable: 2005 Yamaha V-Star 650 - SOLD 2015 Suzuki DR 650 2015 RPS Hawk 250 - SOLD 2016 Ural Gear Up |
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Location: Elburn, IL
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This isn’t an issue with fuelies but on carbed models it can be. Especially older rigs. That’s why I prefer to kick start my rig. The starter has enough torque to cause a lot of boo boos. If I can’t kick it over, there’s a problem and time to stop and find out why. So far, so good. Sounds like the lady will need a “Sergai will fix it”.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Vääksy, Finland
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Funny that, currently listening to an audiobook about a spaceship with a Russian chief engineer, when reading that I can actually hear ensign Vladimir Kaminetzky go oh bozhe moi
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Carrollton, GA
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First Rule of Aviation: -Never Pass Up The Opportunity to Pee I was struggling to get my wife's attention; I sat down on the couch and looked comfortable. That did the trick! My wife says I only have two faults. I don't listen and something else... If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way I told you to... The Stable: 2005 Yamaha V-Star 650 - SOLD 2015 Suzuki DR 650 2015 RPS Hawk 250 - SOLD 2016 Ural Gear Up |
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Location: Elburn, IL
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Your rig has the Electro-jet system. I understand they’re a beyotch to kick start. A bunch of guys at Soviet Steeds came up with an interface cable and software to beat up on the ECM so it will behave a bit better. As a carb guy, it looks like sorcery.
Ural now has a Keihin Fuel Injection upgrade kit available to replace the Electro-jet system on the 2014-2018 models. Just $3K and a lot of time to install.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Carrollton, GA
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Everything that happens inside the fuel injection brain box is black magic and witchcraft as far as I'm concerned. Honestly, the $3k might be worth it to get that beast up and running the way it should. I dunno. Maybe I'll look into it. Any idea where I can find some info on the new system?
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First Rule of Aviation: -Never Pass Up The Opportunity to Pee I was struggling to get my wife's attention; I sat down on the couch and looked comfortable. That did the trick! My wife says I only have two faults. I don't listen and something else... If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way I told you to... The Stable: 2005 Yamaha V-Star 650 - SOLD 2015 Suzuki DR 650 2015 RPS Hawk 250 - SOLD 2016 Ural Gear Up |
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#509 |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Elburn, IL
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Here you go.
https://www.uralne.com/gen-2-efi-thr...4-2018-models/ Don't tell your wife I showed this to you.
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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#510 |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Elburn, IL
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There's also this.
http://m2boxer.com/us/ural-750cc-2014-2018
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Cheesy ______________________________________ 07 Hi Bird Enduro-Flown the Coop 07 Ural Gear Up 79 Honda CX500 77 VeloSolex 4600 V3 73 VeloSolex 3800 I'm making this up as I go.-Indiana Jones Telling me something 'is for my own good', is a fast way to a fat lip.-Me I don't even care about my own problems, why should I care about yours?-Quote on one of my favorite t-shirts |
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