We tried to capture some of the process of building a sidecar. Built by hand, and built in-house, it can be a daunting process to describe how Urals are built.
Not sure a labor of love, if you ask the workers in the 1940 equipped Ural factory. More like a labor of necessity for minimum wage! How much of the $17,000 does he get?
MrEye4get They didn’t make money, I just talked to my great uncle, he has a URL’s with a sidecar like this one, 5 weeks old, they payed them with bouillon cubes at one point. I’m not even kidding.
A indústria Russa esta na contra mão da realidade do Comércio Internacional. É muito primitiva, parada no início do Século 19/20. Isto é o resultado da Política arcaica adotado no país. Seu desenvolvimento se faz ainda na mão de obra barata, quase escrava cuja filosofia se baseia no comunismo. Países Capitalistas possuem uma tecnologia muito superior ao da Rússia.
No wonder these things are so overpriced, fall apart so easily. Terrible workflow, no assembly line to speak of, a clank with a hammer here, a tap there. This sidecar literally takes twice as long to weld together as it ought to. This Trabbant tier vehicle building..
A soon to be a lost art. As of March 2022 factory production suspended due to the Ukraine war & sanctions. No more Ural sidecars this year (besides the ones already shipped). Just think what robots can do if they are assembled in the USA ??
Ural have been around since the 1940s... Did you think the sanctions would stop them? Just like in Ww2 they would move the factory rather than shut down. That's exactly what they have done. Moved to Kazakhstan where they can sell Urals again without the petty sanctions
I bought a new Ural sidecar ages ago . The carbs went in the bin to be replaced by Amals from Birmingham .The engine needed rebuilding by 3,000 miles .All the screws had off centre slots .The slack between nuts and bolts meant I had to coat all the threads with Golden Hermetite (remember that ?).But It ran reliably for 5 years until we sold it and bought a nice Renault 16 .
