On 9/30/2018 3:23 PM, Tim wrote:

They were a copy of captured German beemers from ww2 with very few improvements over the years.

Ural motorcycles have an interesting history.


According to Wiki the Soviet Union "acquired" the design and production
techniques of the German BMW R41 back in 1941. The Wiki article
doesn't exactly spell out how this was accomplished but the
"acquisition" of the design and technology wasn't exactly a legal
transaction. They bought some BMW's secretly through a 3rd party and
then reversed engineered them. They were introduced in the Soviet Union
in 1941 as the model "Dnepr M-72.

The Soviet Union produced over 30,000 of them during the war years and
for a few years after.

In 1957, the M-72 production lines were sold to the People's Republic of
China.