Russian Bikes

[2E]

I want to get one for my next bike.

Looked for an Ural, Cossack, Dnper. Any others?

Want something not too large (500cc or so).

Something like this:

https://www.gmvg.co.uk/news_archive/2008/liberation_images/dneprlarge.jpg
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[N cee thirty]

in soviet russia,motorcycle rides you.

haha sorry
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[Frost]

Why not get an old BMW?

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/3771138142_be08e771e8_z.jpg

[2E]

[Teflon-Mike]

Well, the 650 is 33bhp complient, so I dont know why you'd want anything smaller!
Beware the two-wheel drive 'right hand chair' outfits. (as one you have pictured) They dont meet UK C&U regs, and there's a bit of controvesy over the folk that have them registered as a trike, becouse they dont meet either the C&U regs for a trike or an out-fit.
I cant really say much possitive about them, TBH, my experiences are significantly 'bad'!
Though not bad enough to put me off seriousely investigating Dales-man outfit last year.
Trouble is, up till a few years ago, they were cheap as chips, and a lot of laughs for your money, but for some daft reason the prices are now ludicrouse, new, and thats pushed 2nd hand prices up.
Only ones that are still a bargain are the 2wd RH-Chair examples, that are often sold 'not for road use' or without MOT, (Becouse even perfectly fettled, no-one will give them one, becouse they don't meet regs!)
Without the chair, though, they are remarkeably spritely, and have about the performance of a half decent Honda Super-Dream..... and I'd hazard to say, possibly BETTER handling, though hard to tell, on squared off side-car rubber!
Think you'll find that there are only actually two marques of Wiemach BMW copy; one is the Dnimpnierj..... whatever! other is the Urual/Cossack, which actually a UK Importer badge, becouse the Russian names even more unpronounceable, spellable than Djnipniejneir---whatever!
There are a number of other Ruskie bikes; think based on two-stroke JAWA twin designs, again, marketed in the UK at variouse times under anglacised names.
My Uncles a Dniepner nut, and had two in the last fifteen years. First one was a complete shit-box, and with something like 1500 miles on the clock holes a piston on us bringing it back up from Wiltshire, leading to a sphincter twitching ride home in an AA recovery truck with very camp driver, telling me all about his dairly herd, and patting my leather clad knee rather too fondly for comfort, every time he wanted to emphasise a point! (hence some of my aversion to the ruddy things, after such an intro!)
If you want them to be reliable, you rebuild the motors with Mahl pistons and decent bearings, fit a Bosh ignition and Bing Carburettors. If you want them to move at more than a snails pace you chuck some BMW cams into the mix.
Other than that, they are built like an East German Olympic Woman's Shot-Putter though slightly prettier, but just as hard to handle. Debate rages over how best to set up the tracking of the chair, and steering dampers.... like whether the standard friction damper should be screwed all the way down, or if its a cop out to fit a hydraulic one of a Jap-sportsbike!
But get into them, and aparently this all becomes part of the 'charm'.
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[Teflon-Mike]

[Frost]

https://buyvintage1.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/r71.jpg

Looks the same to me.

[Teflon-Mike]

[silky666]

aah! excellent ... finally an opportunity to post my Ural pic

https://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t69/silky666/Bike%20Stuff/me_ural.jpg
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[smegballs]

That is fucking awesome! The blue/grey color is bang on

[rac3r]

Which is the one Hammond had on tg?
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[c_dug]

On the Car vs Bike trip?

That was a Vincent Black Shadow IIRC which is far different to anything the Russians ever made!

https://www.khulsey.com/motorcycles/vintagebike-images/vincent_black-shadow_series-c.jpeg
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[f1fan111]

in the Vietnam Special Hammond was on a Minsk 125cc two stroke.

With Russia bikes if you get one buy a good running one you can easily get spares for.

I have a 1975 Voskhod 2 which has a 2 stroke 175cc engine in it.

https://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c170/f1fan111/DSCF23441024x768.jpg

which is incomplete and is a challenge to find parts for!! but was only £30

https://www.f2motorcycles.ltd.uk/

mainly do spares for Dnepr and Ural

[2E]

I don't actually want an outfit/sidecar combination... just the bike
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[27cows]

I had a Cossack 125 stroker years ago. Bizarre bike, it was, but kind of fun. Bought it for £40 and sold it for a tenner profit. Wish I'd kept it but I got bored of premixing the fucking thing and never getting it quite right
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[sickpup]

[kestrel]

F2 Motorcycles deal in Ural and Dnepr bikes and sidecar outfits. There is good info on the law regarding right handed sidecar fitment on their website here:-

https://www.f2motorcycles.ltd.uk/rhsidecars.html

[sickpup]

[rac3r]

Hmm I wouldn't mind one of these 2 stroke things for £50 odd
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[warped one]

Since having a blat on a Depna in Estonia, I can say they are mega fun, if not a little on the dangerous. Considering they have no brakes.

But bloody good fun to slide round the streets of Tallinn then out up her mums dirt track.
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[Swifte]

Russian bikes are brilliant fun and hard as nails! Don't know about new stuff but the 70s stuff I had a go on = hilarious amount of fun and disproportionate fuel usage 40mpg!