[Noah930]

A buddy just sold a 600 mile Ural. Looks vintage, because it is vintage. That's what happens when a bunch of Russians haul off a BMW factory back to Siberia after a world war. No development has been made on that design in the intervening 65 years. In fact, he had a problem once where he had to change a battery or sparkplug or something minor like that. Factory manual says there's a plate under the seat that should come off with 4 bolts to expose whatever electrical doohickey he needed to access. But instead of a bolted-in plate, he found no bolts but rather 4 welds. I guess the shipment of bolts to the factory was running thin that month. So he had to take off the sidecar to get to that spot. A sidecar where the wheel is connected via an axle to the rear wheel (so the bike can be a two-wheel drive). It got done, but sure was a PITA.