Working Ural Cossack 650 Flat Twin with a spares mountain - NOT a Dneiper..
Up to change your life is my 650cc Ural Cossack, Transport For The Masses. The previous owner of this hurled it into the hedge after it stopped after a couple of years use, and there it rested for twenty years. I rescued it as a project for my teenage son to restore, and in the nature of teenage sons, I finished it, but then made the mistake of riding it. And in the ten years since it has trundled me to work, with a huge grin and a big laugh, it has earned a deep grudging respect. The initial rebuild involved powder coating, along with replacement Jukov carburettors and replacing the dynamo with a Ford alternator. Since then, Ford contributes with an EDIS coil driven by a BMW ignition with hall pickups, a system that has worked well on my Beemers. The heads are twin plugged, and are new. There is a story on this, along with the two new heads in the spares kit. The Russian vendor has gone off to run a 'Rock Cafe'. Probably best. I replaced the paltry oil pump with a new one, the biggest I could make to fit, and reworked the oil paths to suit, and this works very well as well. The engine is the older M63 type, the two bottom ends are M66's. If you don't like it, there are bottom ends in the spares kit. The bike also has some BMW crash bars on it, and a replacement substantial centre stand. The tank is very good, even with its slight dent on the front. The petrol tap works too. The mileage is a guess, it carried me to the Tractor Factory for more than 5 thousand. The bike goes v...