Email this story. N.C. I had come 400 miles on what many would describe as a fool's errand. I was there with the Siberian Speed Team to set records with a Russian-made Ural motorcycle. It was a fool's errand because if there is one thing the Ural is not noted for, it is speed.
Ural motorcycles are almost always sidecar rigs.
That alone makes them an oddity. And they are a Soviet era knockoff of a 1930s German BMW sidecar outfit. They haven't changed much since they were first produced around 1938. The Urals have a growing and dedicated group of owners in the states, including me. My bike, a 1998, is stranger yet.