In addition, the front fork and the back suspension got an extended shock absorber travel resulting in more comfort on bumpy roads. All in all, only 250 bikes of this modification had been released between 19.Īnother Ural’s forerunner had been produced from 1957 to 1963, this was a transitional model successfully combining the old M-72 chassis with the new 650 cubic centimeters engine and a lighter carriage facility. This was a test model which had never been in mass production. Its last variant had been equipped with a short-lever telescopic fork and aluminum center bosses.īased on the M-72 model’s chassis, it was equipped with a smaller engine (only 500 cubic centimeters) and had no sidecar. First, it was a copy BMW R71 but it had been continuously upgraded and remodeled within its 20-year production history. It was manufactured to resemble the famous German BMW. The following are the road motorcycles – the most popular category of IMZ motorcycles:Īlthough this model had never been called the Ural, it was produced by the Irbit factory and was a predecessor of Urals. Both Dnepr and Ural bikes are known by the name “Cossack motorcycles”, generally applied to all internationally-sold Soviet motorcycles in the 1970s that had been marketed abroad by SATRA (the international New-York-based Corporation known for importing, modifying, and distributing the soviet cars and motorcycles abroad). There are several differences between Dnepr MT and Ural motorcycles, still they have lots in common because of sharing the same origin ( see the origin of cossack motorcycles). Later on, in 1953, the factory begins to export Urals to developing countries and the USSR allies.Ī similar motorcycle called Dnepr MT was produced by the Kyiv Motorcycle Factory (KMZ). As a result, the production increased from almost 10.000 pcs during the World War II period to more than 30.000 pcs in the next decade. At that time, these technical characteristics were considered quite high, which was the reason why the Soviet Defense Ministry found these motorcycles suitable for military use.Īs the motorcycle production got militarized, the Irbit Motorcycle Works (IMZ) had been continuously expanding since 1942. The first motorcycles were equipped with a four-stroke horizontally opposed double-cylinder engine producing up to 28 hp (20,6 kW) and a 4-speed gearbox. M-72 with sidecars were quite popular due to the non-differential sidecar wheel drive, which was quite efficient for the soviet impassable roads. Normally, M-72 motorcycles were equipped with sidecars, however, a certain number of bikes without them were produced as well. Later, the production facilities were moved further to the East to Gorkiy (now Nizhniy Novgorod) and Irbit located in the Ural mountains, at the edge of Siberia.
At the beginning, these motorcycles where produced by factories located in Kharkiv, Moscow, and Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). The first M-72 motorcycle was manufactured in the USSR in 1941.
Its production originates from 1940 when the soviet union stole the design of the R71 BMW motorcycle – one of the best military motorcycles of that time, which had been used in the German army since 1938. Technical Specs of Ural motorcycle modelsĪ Ural motorcycle is a heavy motorcycle with a sidecar produced by the Irbit Motorcycle Factory, russia.
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