Best part of having a rally like this is getting to ride along a little way with all the riders who ran the rally. Here’s our ride report – courtesy of all our Rally Riders.
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| Ural-Rally-#153-LoboSolo & Platero – LoboSolo (153) |
| Best Stop – The Ride – Burnaby-Hope-Lytton-Lillooet-Pemberton-Whistler-Squamish-Britannia Beach – BC, Canada. |
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| Jon Taylor- flying the flag – Bondi (195) |
| Best Stop – Lunch at the Kentucky General Store, with Uralofoz importer Jon Taylor. |
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| Happy kids + Sahara (x2) + UDF = Super Great Time – Desert Rat 2 (301) |
| Best Stop – Happy kids + Sahara (x2) + UDF = Super Great Time |
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| Not really the best picture but I’m going for Suck Up Points! – LOGANAZ (16) |
| Best Stop – Globe, AZ … got to rehashthe day with everyone and eat a really good burger with green chillis that i furnished. |
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| Lined up on the beach, watching the sunset – New England Tour (81) |
| Best Stop – Destination at Sauble Beach on Lake Huron |
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| – Papa Paul (188) |
| Best Stop – Los Padres National Forest |
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| Chris applies the Special Ural Tool to Andrew’s front brake. – Freezin_Geezer (162) |
| Best Stop – Nice break for a late lunch, picnic table in the shade w/ fish & chips & lemon, OR visit with retired State Trooper injured last year in a Ural accident. |
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| We apprecaite your service! – Rush-In-2011 (257) |
| Best Stop – We had several neat encounters with people but the one we appreciated the most were the State Troopers we talked to. They would have taken a ride but were on OT because one of the National Guardsmen who was murdered earlier in the week in the Carson City shooting was being laid to rest. Apparently there were threats from protestors so they had to stay alert. We had a great day and have a lot more pics to share if you’d like to see them! What a GREAT idea this was…Hopefully there will be a 2nd annual. |
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| Ralph DeLuco, my Patrol, and Nikki HD Girl – Canton Cycles Pete (245) |
| Best Stop – I stopped to see my friend Ralph DeLuco, former owner of Ural dealership Canton Cycles. I sold more than 40 Urals while working there. Ralph is now Parts and Service manager at Gengras Eurobike Triumph, BMW. Gengras is also a Harley dealer. HOGs made my UDF points easy, about five times over. Nikki, the dealership Harley girl took a ride with Ralph in my Ural. |
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| Dorena Covered Bridge – Buckaroo (78) |
| Best Stop – Our best stop was the last stop. Not just because the long day was done. We had rushed to get a picture of an historic ranger cabin in the woods and as we came to it and jumped off to get a picture we were greeted by 2 ladies and a girl who were spending the night there. After explaining what we were doing we offered them a ride. The little girl was the only one that wanted to go. So, around the small driveway we spun. It was her first motorcycle ride and we were glad that we could give her a great experience. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful, if very long day. |
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| Shark’s Cove, North Shore of Oahu – Otisanek (187) |
| Best Stop – Matsumoto’s Shave Ice in Haleiwa, Hawaii. We sat on the bike and watched the tourists watch us (apparently two girls on a Ural is a bit of an oddity here), then once we were done with our shave ice cones, we realized that I had run the tank to empty, and forgotten to fill up the gas can. We ended up walking a couple k’s to the nearest gas station to fill up, but in the end it was still the best stop of the day. |
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| How the hell did the kid mess up his bike this time? – Schatzman (258) |
| Best Stop – Visiting Retired NH State Police Trooper Tom Bolton who was injured on a Ural last year. |
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| – Lindy (26) |
| Best Stop – The best stop was the old Ely Stone Bridge. This bridge was built in 1893 by Ely Reuben, Sr and Ely Reuben, Jr for $455. In 1985 it was reconditioned by a Grandson for an undisclosed cost…. I was able to drive off road and under the bridge due to low water levels, which made for a great picnic with the Monkey. This trip was our 16th wedding anniversary along with the 5th anniversary of the date we ordering our Raven. This is becoming a great Day! |
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| Ride Home – Oily Slim (215) |
Best Stop – It’s really a toss up. The whole day was so much fun! Thank you for going to all this work to organize the Rally. Loon Lake was great, the Burger Bar was a ton of fun, the three water crossings were exciting, and the Hangingstone River was serenity at it’s finest. We couldn’t decide between an artistic pic or a water crossing photo so let me know if you want a water crossing shot.. the video is even better  |
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| Hotel Del Coronado San Diego – Urologist – San Diego (126) |
| Best Stop – Acapulco Mexican Restaurant Y Cantina in Old Town. They did not have enough parking on the street for the seven rigs so they made room in the entry courtyard for four rigs. They were gracious enough to comp us Three Huge Appetizer Platters. We also ordered the best Mexican food available in San Diego. We had a great lunch and shared many stories. The customers really liked our rigs. Too bad IMWA does not have the Emissary Program anymore. Luckily I had printed up a bunch of cards to hand out. |
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| Cambridge Street in Boston – Mgtibb (241) |
| Best Stop – Stopped in downtown Boston with lots of UDF |
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| A 1774 Colonial caught in the 21 Century – Liberty Rider (80) |
| Best Stop – While on the Jamestown Ferry, when a family traveling through the state came up and Tom, asked a lot of questions about Erika (bike). He then went and brought his wife over. It turned out she had grown up in Russia, in the Ural Mts no less. She’d remembered seeing motorcycles w/sidecars as a child and her grandfather had given her a ride in one he’d own when she was around 5 or 6. It’s a small world after all. |
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| Yosemite National Park Half Dome – Sheepdog (213) |
| Best Stop – Yosemite National Park via Highway 140, the Grand Entrance, must see. |
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| Two of my 5 grandkids. – Fridaygranny (209) |
| Best Stop – Monroe, Wisconsin where I got the Historical County Courthouse photo and found the local farmer’s market, which included one of the best cream puffs I’ve ever eaten! |
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| Mr. Jiggs and Rube ready for the rally – Erich (287) |
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| Funny, I didn’t see a back door for the hippies… – Road Weazel (79) |
| Best Stop – The Drift Inn, in Globe AZ. They make a pretty good burger and shade and cold water were a welcome change. |
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| Texas Water Crossing – Evilgeezer (135) |
| Best Stop – Chance meeting with Up-Ural-E at the Collin County Courthouse. Hope you liked the beer and stuffed jalapenos at Churchills, and thanks for the intel on the gateguard and the Sister Grove Creek bridges! |
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| Ural Importer Jon Taylor, group UDF, Historic Pub in background, our bikes + the Russian Flag. – Dalemann (160) |
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| Don’t you hate aggressive tailgaiters? – Bvardi (199) |
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| There wasn’t points but new windshield! – Tim Tobin Red Ryder (270) |
| Best Stop – Holopaw Ural!! The Possum Werks! |
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| Staff member at Logan’s graciously holds our Rally Flag, our first stop. – Stravonski (57) |
| Best Stop – Every stop was enjoyable, the photo from our dealer was classic, and dinner at Big Bellys BBQ was great, but the best for us was making it home safe after a long day on very bumpy dirt roads with heat, dust, and dirt, and getting a shower! 356km, the longest single day ride my wife and I have ever taken on our Gear-Up. |
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| Um, Water Crossing? – NiteBlues (28) |
| Best Stop – Carranzza Monument. Seems a Mexican flew an airplane from Mexico City to New York City around the same time that Lindbergh flew to Paris. Of course, Lindbergh got all the press, but this fellow did a spectacular feat as well! Unfortunately when he left NYC, he got caught in a storm over the Pine Barrens and crashed and died. They built a monument to him right there. Every year (still!) the local fire department that searched for and found him have a ceremony on the day of the year that he crashed. |
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| Snapped this just as the train thundered by… – Slawnski (84) |
| Best Stop – Best stop was at the WWll reenactment in Lemont Illinois! got to hang out with the Russian re-en-actors for a bit! |
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| Heritage Fire Truck – Van Isle 3X2 (141) |
| Best Stop – Seeing Orcas at Kelsey Bay |
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| Wow where can I get one of these! – Ken Furtado (250) |
| Best Stop – Stop in downtown Boston, the locals loved it. It was like being on the red carpet! so many interested folks and more than likely future Ural owners. Just a great day for all. |
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| Historic Superstition Mts – SonnyAZ (27) |
| Best Stop – Drift Inn Saloon, Globe, AZ Great food, Beer and great prices. |
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| – The Red Dennis (39) |
| Best Stop – Should be Best RIDE of the Day. Stopping is no fun! We had an EPIC ride yesterday. The rules stated that points were collectable from sunrise to sunset only and we adhered to those rules. In the time allotted, roughly 12 hours, we acquired 341 scoreable mileage points. In reality we rode for over 500 km and 15 hours. And we rode some GREAT routes, Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Cruz to well south of Big Sur, CA. But we didn’t stop there. Look up The Old Coast, we road it. Look up South Coast Road, we roade it. Look up Pacific Coast Highway, we rode it. And we had to go through Monterey and Santa Cruz to get there. |
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| Happy Monkeys – Globe, Arizona – Robert Savard (300) |
| Best Stop – Stopped for a burger in Globe, AZ. Major UDF including two monkey rides. |
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| How many Firemen can ride on a Ural…. All of them. – Xephius (165) |
Best Stop – Port Coquitlam Fire Department… How many Firemen can ride on a Ural…. All of them.  |
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| Andrea, Nub & Skeeter with JT on Patrol – I Want One Too (3) (85) |
| Best Stop – Bruce & Andrea’s place in Kennaston. Between the two of them (and their two dogs), they own 28 motorcycles, an old car and twin Dneprs (ca. 1982). Our next to last stop at Brittania Restaurant in Asquith was great as well: we were all starving and the food and service were terrific. We were so hungry though that we neglected to photograph our food before it disappeared, so no bonus points…. |
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| Frank and Susan #222 group stop at rest spot for barbeque – Frank Black (222) |
| Best Stop – Robert’s Lake for the finest cinnamon buns on the island, on route to our destination, Sayward. |
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| Plural Urals. Mother Babushka and daughter Anklodge on 1998 Deco Classics – babushka (30) |
| Best Stop – That’s tough, but I guess it has to be the first Catholic church in Ohio. It was a log cabin built in 1817 in rural Dungannon. On the property is the brick church that replaced it in 1849. The priest was there unlocking the new church for 5:00 mass and gave us an amazing tour. He invited us to climb into the belfry and insisted I ring the bell!! It was a beautiful day filled with dramatic rain clouds that occasionally opened up on us adding to our weather adventure! |
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| Is he real. – 2Pokey (203) |
| Best Stop – Jail Tree in Wickenburg. |
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| Giving the motor officer a ride! – Tom Berry (6) |
| Best Stop – Mid-Continent Railway Museum, North Freedom, WI |
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| Concrete concrete tower – SkagitStan (198) |
| Best Stop – No pics with Sara the Hack, but the best stop was the 3 mile (RT) hike up to Slide Lake from the trail head at at the end of FS road16 |
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| Heading North on AZ 88 – BudK (60) |
| Best Stop – Rest stop at Roosevelt Dam overlook at end of the dirty, wash boarded, bone jarring AZ 88… It’s pretty though!! https://picasaweb.google.com/BudK36/UralRally10Sep11?authkey=Gv1sRgCJDSzc_K3fOvLA |
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| – Blue’s Ride (196) |
| Best Stop – The Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison were the best stop of the ride. The Thai Pavillion was beautiful, unique feature. |
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| A moment back in time on Columbian County Rd #137 on Pierce’s Covered Bridge. It’s been closed for 45 years. – anklodge (24) |
| Best Stop – Covered Bridge in Columbiana County that hadn’t been crossed in over 45 years. We opened the gate and parked on it for a Plural Ural photo opportunity. |
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| Inside Joke– Oh look it’s a paprika farm! – коллектор (293) |
| Best Stop – Talking with the folks at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch entrance gate. Regardless of whether you are a fan of his music, there is no denying the effect he had on people. While I was talking with security and taking pictures at least 4 separate cars pulled up and stopped. All were travelers, just trying to find the ranch so they can say they have been there. There are two painted saw-horse style road barriers by the gate all covered in hand written messages and condolences. They were all excited to learn about the Rally, UDF’s and the history of the bike. So they could be a part of the history and to commemorate their journey for my scrap book, I had everyone sign my Rally Flag. It was pretty cool. |
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| Holopaw Gene Da Man….. – Johnny Sprocket (82) |
| Best Stop – Holopaw Gene’s shop. Out of eight bikes six were getting attention. Tires were flying, Oil was draining, and a windshield was installed. A good time had by all…. |
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| Celebrating National Rally Day at Ural of New England! – (99) |
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| Medical Evacuation helicopter UH-1H Tiger Land – The Lawton Lily (156) |
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| Urals at the Hotel Del Coronado – Chapulina Cat Ramos (216) |
| Best Stop – At the Hotel Del Coronado, where Terry Cook had previously set up a time and place in front to park. We were mobbed by tourists and hotel guests who took pictures and asked questions about our rides. There were some Russian-speaking people in the crowd and I had a chance to speak (in Russian) with them about my WWll US Merchant Marine-themed Ural and my Dad’s WWll convoy voyages to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk! |
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| URAL STIG – Rabble of Redheads (76) |
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| Curtis’BBQ 9th wonder of the world Putney VT – Three Wheel Jim (276) |
| Best Stop – Last stop for the best burger this side of the Connecticut River at the Walpole Village Tavern also good and cold refreshments! |
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| a mix of the day – Dees Red (34) |
| Best Stop – Road closed, found a cliff overlooking a Lake when looking for a different way , off a dirt road of course, went on the closed road anyway. |
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| Alligator Recovery Vehicle – Central Florida Ural Riders (274) |
| Best Stop – St. Augustine, Florida |
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| Luna surveys the area on another Vermont gravel road. – Lunatic (289) |
| Best Stop – Stopping at a friend’s for barbecue—slow-cooked ribs—enjoyed a visit with friends, kids, and dogs, then got the group UDF while trying to escape because everyone needed a photo of Luna, wearing her doggles, in her Ural. |
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| Harvest in Germany – Sheroe (286) |
| Best Stop – 30° C during the Rally. Best stop: swimming in a nice lake. |
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| Highway 1, along the Big Sur Coast. – Ray Hull (33) |
| Best Stop – The best stop of the day was at Ragged Point on the Pacific Coast, grilled Mahi-Mahi tacos and a group UDF that consisted of an entire tour bus of German tourists. Luckily the tour leader spoke very good English so he translated for us. |
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| Just down the road…the Old Bridge a creek runs under. – The Dome Roamers (294) |
| Best Stop – We enjoyed the whole day immensely. We rode our bikes all day, and loved it. The most engaging stop we agreed had to be when we stopped to get some BBQ. We saw many people as we were eating stop and look at the bikes, this is nothing new. They would come in after looking at the bikes and you could see on their faces they were trying to pick out the ones who rode those bikes, we just smiled at each other. When we were getting our helmets on a vehicle pulled up beside us and an older female got out of the passenger side and said, We have one of those just not with a side car though. My husband said a Ural, or a motorcycle? She said no a Ural. At that time her husband had made it out of the car and around to where we were. They lived not too far from us. The bike they had was a Solo 1996 model. They bought in 1998 from Mike’s Cycle and Marine. Well we stayed there and talked for a good 30 minutes. it was very enjoyable. A fella came out of the restaurant and said , Oh you 2 were the owners of these bikes? He was one of the ones looking at everyone trying to decide whose they were. We said Yup. We shared many laughs. Ural riders are an varied group of people. We love that. |
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| What its all about – Sailing Rider (193) |
| Best Stop – Having a Bbq at a rest stop with other Ural riders that I never new before. This ride got us together and formed new friendships. |
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| First Ural Dealer in U.S. – UralBird (268) |
| Best Stop – Riding down the Historical linier state parkway the Natchez Trace Parckway down to Waynesboro TN to visit my new friend Mike at Mike’s Cycle and Marine. Mike claims to be the oldest Ural Dealer in the country. He once aquired a Ural from Iraq and still uses it as his personal rig today. It was smuggled out of Iraq in pieces by some ambitious military service personal. The side car was cut in half and rewelded here in the states. Mike has so many great stories about Ural’s beginnings here in the U.S. he is a true Ural lover and a great Ural Mechanic. The best part of the stop was when he sold me the rear rack off his personal rig and we mounted it for the mechanical adventure bonus. |
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| Tom Bolton visit – BOUNTY HUNTER (41) |
| Best Stop – Visit with Retired NH State Police Trooper Tom Bolton who was involved in a serious Ural sidecar accident last october and wasn’t expected to survive. He wants to be ‘monkey’ @ next year’s Ural Rally Day! |
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| There’ nothing like riding a Ural on a great road. – 42Thumbs (226) |
| Best Stop – Sheila’s Place Restaurant in Marshfield MO. Serves the best bacon cheeseburger I’ve had in quite awhile. |
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| A friendly LEO in Jefferson, TX – Oldtimer (200) |
| Best Stop – Jefferson, TX is always a great place to visit. It’s an old town with brick roads, lots of shops and layed back people. Auntie Skinners is a favorite stop for bikers though I went to the Hamburger Shop instead, this time. |
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| Freedom Rock Greenfield, Iowa (gate guard) – Lee Pape (83) |
| Best Stop – Owls Nest in Panora, Iowa. Watching the ISU Cyclones beat the Iowa Hawkeyes while having a nest burger. Tripple OT game, we just saw the second half. |
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| Lady Harley Rider – Drake Ranch Rally (229) |
| Best Stop – After giving a ride to a lady motorcyclist through Zion National Park, with her husband leading the way on his H-D, we continued to Kanab, UT, to fuel the Harleys and during that stop some Golwing riders stopped and after talking, I had people crawling all over the Patrol (with permission). They were sitting on it, a guys wife was in the sidecar and a guy was on his hands and knees looking at the sidecar drive. |
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| Stouts Shoe store , Oldest shoe store in USA, same building since 1886 ! – Indy Hacks (36) |
| Best Stop – Indianapolis 500 Race track / Longs Bakery (Since early 1950′s and an Indy Icon) |
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| Sale War Memorial – time to ponder – Gippsland Circuit (155) |
| Best Stop – Being just out of Air Force after 27 years, I decided to do a circuit around the War Memorials in the area. Gives you a sense of purpose and deeper understanding of what is really is to be Australian. Outside the Air Force base in Sale stands a lonely gate guard. As I was taking the photo (not the best) the (real people) guards came for a chat and were really intriged about the bike. Nice stop, nice plane and nice folk all round. |
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| MC Mechanized Museum, Camp Pendleton – motodog (149) |
| Best Stop – Marine Corp Base Camp Pendleton, Mechanized Museum. friendly people, good roads, beautiful landscape, many restored machines to photograph |
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| Green River Gorge Resort. Wonder if Norman Bates works tonight? – WARCAT (45) |
| Best Stop – Twede’s Cafe (also know as the R&R Cafe from Twin Peaks). We stopped there to have a slice of Twin Peaks’ Cherry Pie and we also met up 4 other Urals and 1 Dnepr (6 total!!). UDF was HEAVY in North Bend, WA and it was fun seeing them all stacked up in front of the cafe. |
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| Long awaited stop – Spat (263) |
| Best Stop – Gold General Store in Gold Hill for PIE while on the down and dirty part of my ride. |
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| Dealer? or X-Files Bonus – Team Stiboldaron (305) |
| Best Stop – Group UDF – three year old wouldn’t let her Dad load her into their car because she was watching us get on the bike. We relocated to the parking spot next to their car, and let her honk the horn and start the bike. She laughed and giggled and then ran to hide behind her Mom. A heart won to Sidecars. |
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| The Three Tire Swap – Schdoja (51) |
| Best Stop – Car show at the Denton County Courthouse who knew. |
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| The three Uralers – Ginger & Stef (214) |
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| In Front of the Venetian – IceBeard (88) |
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| History on wings – OldManRiver (66) |
| Best Stop – Military Air Museum |
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| Anamosa Stae Penitentary Cemetary – Ken (183) |
| Best Stop – Spent from 10:00 to 15:30 participating in teh Eastern Region Side Car rally at the National Motor Cycle Museum extolling the virtues of the URAL. There were at least 5 URALS at the rally.. |
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| Gus’s Posse – DouGus (159) |
| Best Stop – Backwoods smokehouse, great food, they kept feeding Gus smoked bones, I had to take a doggie bag as we were running out of day |
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| Motorcycle buddies for life! – Big O Riders (172) |
| Best Stop – The burger was phenomenal and the baby goats were cute, but the best part was spending the day with my wife and 4 year old son on our Ural. I’ve made a motorcycle buddy for life with my little boy. |
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| 5 Urals and a Dnepr at Tweeds cafe – windmill (208) |
| Best Stop – Tweeds cafe where we met some other riders not with our group |
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| 1948 Plymouth in Meadowbrook – mark jackson (86) |
| Best Stop – Antique steam train snowplow in Snoqualmie…. Last stop of the day. |
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| Needs a little orange paint! – Dacron (168) |
| Best Stop – Not a best stop, but the best thing about the day – I had developed a sore back and my physical therapist had advised me no to ride the Ural because of the torso twisting required. (The problem developed after a two day 450 mile trip last week), I decided to ride at least a bit and was able to do so without developing further back issues, so the day was a success on that front. |
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| Joshua at the B-52 monument – Marty L (273) |
| Best Stop – At Holopaw Gene’s shop!!! Always a great time!!! |
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| Holopaw Gene sitting in my rig… – Soviet Steeds of Central Florida (204) |
| Best Stop – At Holopaw Genes – Met up with other Rally riders from all across Central Florida |
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| We don;t look suspicious in a Russian cycle taking photos of a military installation the day before 911 do we? – Looks at Books Rally (303) |
| Best Stop – Stopping for lunch and having a good burger with my daughter who was the monkey. |
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| You have to Love The U.S.A!! – SCOUTMAN (150) |
| Best Stop – Met A Russian at my breakfast stop an pie. He is now a U.S. citizen for eight years. he was there with his Wife U.S. 17 years and natural born Daughter. I have Andrey’s ph# and we plan to visit again. He sat on Natia, My gear up, and I have a photo. Also cop was cool I thought the motor cop had to ride. We should have a place to show are photos, I rode my butt off and took many nice shots and much proof of my ride. |
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| Cannons Port Towsend , Wa – Street Sailor (143) |
| Best Stop – Historic Port Gamble , Wa . Old logging town with buidings and town restore. Now with BBQ, great breakfast place, knitting & quilt store. Plus the view of Puget Sound. Many motorcycles passing through. |
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| 9th wonder of the world – Three Wheel Jim (276) |
| Best Stop – Walpole Village Tavern, best burger this side of the Connecticut River and cold refreshments at the end of ride |
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| Ford Parkway Bridge Over the Mississippi River – EverydayRiding (121) |
| Best Stop – a family of four deer walking out of the forest while I was taking a bridge picture was pretty cool. |
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| Giving a cop a ride! – Up-Ural-E (32) |
| Best Stop – Meeting up with EvilGeezer and his wife at the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney. Although the breakdown was fun (not!). And giving a cop a ride! |
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| take your choice I aint smart enough to only get one – tourist (158) |
| Best Stop – Mellon festival where I gave a cop a ride got a cool picture of an antique fire truck and collected my udfs and gave a udf a ride |
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| take your choice I aint smart enough to only get one – tourist (158) |
| Best Stop – Mello festival where I gave a cop a ride got a cool picture of an antique fire truck and collected my udfs and gave a udf a ride |
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| old plane old bike old man – F.W.E. ELECTRIC CHURCH RALLY (211) |
| Best Stop – federal correctional center in El Reno Oklahoma. We were using the photo for the bonus point for gate guard, shortly after we took the photo, the heat was on us, two federal vehicles with light flashing , two armed officers approached us and told us it is against law to take photo of the federal prison and demand to delete the photograph, so we did as they watched. And they asked us to leave, but both of them said nice bike. And we left. |
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| Mike, Terri, & Mitzi At NAS Whidby Isl – Mike Dilley (142) |
| Best Stop – Early in the ride, at NASW Whidbey, took a picuter of gate and gturrds, then asked to delete it as it was now not approprate to take them, but he helpe set us up for the photo attached showing the Jet, Mitzi my Mini Dachshund/Monkey, and Terri, my wife/monkey. |
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| Parliament House Canberra – Capital Capers (285) |
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| We may be slow, but we’re ahead of the airplane! – R-URAL (206) |
| Best Stop – The top of Cadillac Mountain – the tallest mountain on the east coast of North America accessed by a beautiful twisty, turny road designed for Urals on an unbelievable day. This became a massive UDF; we ended up giving a ride to a lady and she and her husband will probably buy a Ural in the near future. IMZ may see a spike in Ural sales soon!! |
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| ultimate russian gate guard. – Duwamish Peoples Contingent (22) |
| Best Stop – Brunch and a beer! |
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| Jackson and Grandma meet Boris – Boris (181) |
| Best Stop – Aloha Zoo-Jackson, the monkey, and his caretaker (Grandma) took us up on the ride for some bonus points. |
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| Motorcycle buddies for life! – Big O Riders (172) |
| Best Stop – The burger was phenomenal and the baby goats were cute, but the best part was spending the day with my wife and 4 year old son on our Ural. I’ve made a motorcycle buddy for life with my little boy. |
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| Benton County Courthouse – CW Spook (292) |
| Best Stop – East Central Sidecar Rally at the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, IA. 3 other Urals in attendance. Met a bunch of cool folks and got to see about 75 assorted sidecar outfits. |
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| Ural Rally Bush picnic – Mister Red (306) |
| Best Stop – The road we took was through the bush after being warned against going this way by a BMW rider. The Ural had no problems. After a couple of dry creek crossings (shouldn’t absence of bridge be worth points?) we climbed a range and near the top pulled up and broke open the picnic basket and enjoyed. |
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| Historical Red School House, Bartlett, Texas – HondoTX (279) |
| Best Stop – Lunch in Walburg, Texas with Kevo and URALCT, and Kevo’s son, Don. Kevo and I had just endured an undetermined, but excess, number of klicks on filling-rattling county roads. They paved the road with rocks that David could have used on Golitath. |
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| Wolf Creek Oregon Stagecoach Station – Ma Deuce (5) |
| Best Stop – When we saw something in the distance that turned out to be a man in a gorilla suit and got him in the hack for a picture. |
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| I think this is how it goes on. – Ural Vic (95) |
| Best Stop – At the Will county courthouse in Joliet. My daughter surprised me running around asking all the police she could find to get in the side car. Unfortunately I had no takers. |
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| Maybe I’ll be ready for the 100th birthday celebrations. – Phoenixski (189) |
| Best Stop – D N S. Flywheel wobble; suspect bent crank. |
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| Meeting Mater (from CARS) – Granny Lois (185) |
| Best Stop – Meeting Mater – a circa 1943 Dodge tow truck – rusty and blue – just like Mater from the CARS movie. Didn’t give me an autograph, tho.(I have 40 pix, if you want more.) |
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| Moscow Covered Bridge 3rd largest in the State – Moving Pictures Ride (233) |
| Best Stop – Rushville Indiana we found the old Princess Theatre and during our stop Riders from a charity ride stopped an hung out with us. They enjoyed seeing the URAL and took a few pics of us and of course they thought this was a very cool idea. Oh yes Rushville Park Rest. had great eats the list of Pie was abundant and the butterscotch cream pie was to die for. Overall we are so lucky to see and vist 4 covered bridges in our ride and not to mention Moscow Indiana. |
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| Bridge from Dresden to Route 666 – slamfive (144) |
| Best Stop – Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl Zanesville, Ohio |
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| Old Fort Collins High School – hyperboarder (91) |
| Best Stop – Not a stop, carnival ride 51km through Stove Prairie and Rist Canyon. |
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| Ural with First Air’s Hercules during ‘Herc-Pull’ fundraiser. – YKStorm (243) |
| Best Stop – Bullocks Fish & Chips, always the best! |
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| Local Police Officer buys URAL for patrol – Richburg URAL Ride (46) |
| Best Stop – As my wife (monkey) and I were going down a tree-lined country road, a deer ran across in front of us unexpectedly. We stopped to regroup! |
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| Heidi , Fayola and the Ural on a muddy gravel road – Passau Ural (70) |
| Best Stop – Visiting local sidecar rally in Hautzenberg Germany |
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| Can I still collect points even if I don’t know what it is? – Coluralado (4) |
| Best Stop – At a stoplight, guy rolls down his window and offers me $3500 on the spot for the Patrol. Had the cash in his hand and showed me. Philly Cheesesteak for lunch!!!! |
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| Narrow road with 2 outfits and Wattle trees in bloom – Bondi (195) |
| Best Stop – Morning tea at Uralla with Jon Taylor (Australian Ural importer) and his wife Vicki. Jon rode some of the way with us on the only Ural Retro in the country. |
