anyone know what yr this bike is?

dont ask me why but a mates interested in it!

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Cossack-URAL...4QQihZ017QQcategoryZ32626QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

1945?

 

If you can get a serial number its possible
could be built anywhere after wwII or so .. I think they updated about
1968/69 ? ( I remember one being ridden around the neighborhood when I
was a kid)

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:35:22 +1100

Urals came into the country in batches I believe. SOmeone would
import them for a bit then give up.

COuld be early 80s to last year.... Ask the seller, it should have a
plate.

Zebee

 

From the look of the condition and that's it's a Ural, I'd say it's a 2005
model.

Seriously, I'd say early seventies.

Theo

 

Rego papers maybe. If after about 1974ish it should have a very rusted
indeciferable compliance plate.

Theo

 

Martin Zumpe at Performance Motorcycles in Elizabeth Street imported them in
during the late 1960's,
from around 1967 on
if you can find him, he is still around somewhere he could tell you, or
Chris, the other partner in PMC

When they came in, they were brand new and their prices were 350cc was $350
and the 650cc was $650
$1 per cc

A fair copy of a pre-war BM, they were also called a Vostok
It seems the rocker covers have been changed along with the seat

 

****, a 50 to get to work on would be great value then!

 

George W. Frost wrote -

Somehow or other they also ended up at Capitol Motors alongside the Datsuns,
as they then were.

Yes, it was $1 per cc but that was still hideously overpriced in reliability
terms - mine ate spark plugs but the speedo measuring km per yak amused me
[a very Russian concept]. Urals curiously have a cult following in the US,
but then again, so did the Manson family.

best, Andrew