The URAL sells for about 800$ US in Russia, even Russians know a good deal. They sell for about 5400$ in the US with upgraded wheels (chrome) side car with a spare tire. The Royal Enfield factory was bought out by the Government of India when BSA/Triumph/Norton/Enfield closed their factory there. They offer a Enfield Clone that is reasonable quality with low performance. I think the low performance is based on the need to run cheap fuels that are readily available in those countries. You're right about the top speed on the URAL but I'd bet you could run it on bacon drippings. Stan On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 09:17:16 -0500 (CDT) CTONLINE@webtv.net (Terry Kay) writes: > Stan, > > Only thing is about the Ural is, top speed with a stiff tailwind is > about 50 mph. > > Not quite up to Beemer standards. > Very prehistoric. > > Stan Wilder writes; > > Could you be talking about a poor mans BMW cycle, a URAL, Ural is > Russian made knock off of the 5/6/7 series with telescoping forks, > comes > with or without side car. > Stan > > ______________ > |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ > | | | | > ~~~ ~||-(())----(())-| > > Terry-- > 74 Campmobile- (Clementine) > 85 GL- (Delilah) > 86 BMW 325 ES- (Eva) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "In life, it is much better to > want > something you cannot have--- > > Than to have something you can't get rid of" > > (T.K.) > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. |
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