The ultimate Indy piece of gear!

[Mojave Jack]

OK, who's got one of these?!



Compare!



Man, with a little different paint job! Whoo hoo!

http://www.imz-ural.com/gearup/

[Zach R.]

"It will be mine. Oh, yes, it will be mine."

I've been thinking about how cool it would be to have one of those for months, and now that I've shopped around, they are not as unreasonably priced as I had thought.


Now to scrounge up the 10,000 bucks.

[Renderking Fisk]

Check with "The Steel Beast" A.K.A Alex... he had one used in either Raiders or The LC for several years.

[Andy Buse]

Didn't Zach Braff in the movie Garden State have that motor cycle with side car? I just watched the movie last night, and it looked remarkably similar...

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0333766/ ... ey=0333766

Eh? Eh, eh?

[Mojave Jack]

Sure does look like Zach Braff's. Haven't seen that movie yet, but Scrubs is awesome. Owns a bike like Indy's, too. Hmm. Pretty cool guy.

I've priced out a loan on these babies, and it would only run about $200 bucks/mo. for 60 months. With the price of gas at $2.50, plus insurance, plus... Crikey! There must be some way to justify getting one![/i]

[Andy Buse]

SCRUBS RULES!!

The reason I really remembered this bike when I saw this post was that in the extra stuff on the DVD, they said they gave the prop guy $5,000 to get a "vintage WWII motorcycle" and they ended up going to a specific dealer of replica bikes in Russia (I think) I'll have to double check the DVD tonight to see where they got it (and if they spent the whole $5,000 on it!)

[agent5]

I know who's got one.

DISNEYWORLD!!!!


They have the original in that pic. They just let it rot in the sun too. No protection whatsoever. Shame they won't even let us resore them for free.

[Pyroxene]

Disney also has the car that Indy and his dad drive in LC. They must have gotten a 2-for-1

[Indiana Wayne]

They have a genuine Africa Korps BMW motorcycle at a museum near here, and I think it has a side car on it, but I am not sure. I will have to back there one of these days.

[Dalexs]

Let me kook around a bit. We had a thread n this a while back. These bikes are available new in the US. The main company I think is out of Chicago somewhere, with distributers in a various parts of the US.

Dalexs

[Havana]

Check out Ural.com
Take it from me, driving a bike with a side car will drive you nuts. Thery're worse than camels. You constantly have to fight the pull of the side car (unless the side car has a driven wheel which most don't). It's like a never ending turn. It's exhausting. If you relax your grip on the handle bars the bike will immediately pull off to one side. I had a 64 BMW R60 with a side car. I thought it would be so much fun. I sold the side car within two months. Side cars are one of those things that look cool in the movies but don't work so well in real life. So just stick to the practical things like bull whips, Sankara Stones, and staff of Ra headpieces.

[Mojave Jack]

Take it from me, driving a bike with a side car will drive you nuts. Thery're worse than camels. You constantly have to fight the pull of the side car (unless the side car has a driven wheel which most don't). It's like a never ending turn.

Bikes in general can be exhausting! As a young bike owner, I never understood why people would buy a motorcycle, then put all that stuff on it, like a windshield, seat back, etc. And then I a) started driving cross-country, and b) got older (dang it!), and started to understand. I don't think I ever put more than about 20,000 miles on all of my bikes put together.

On the Ural Patrol and Gear Up the sidecar wheel is a drive wheel, but I don't think that it is recommended for street driving. There's some pretty cool video on the site of a guy riding with the side-car drive wheel engaged, spitting dirt from both wheels.

[Erri]

Guys, I suggest you to have a look on these two links

http://www.geocities.jp/hekigantamashii/eindy6.html
http://www.avault.com/featured/hidden/bmwr75.asp

[Rabittooth]

Pyroxene...the new avatar is brilliant.


-R