I was delighted to receive prompt replies from both sides of the Atlantic to the e-mail messages found in my last post:
AW: Urals for Tour of Russia
Hello Professor McDougall,
great that you enjoy riding motorcycles and with Ural you have the best
possible motorcycle for travelling in
Russia .
You are right, you are
not the first one, who has the idea to cross
Russia with the Ural combination.
First of all, I only can
talk about Ural in Europe, I don’t know how to purchase a Ural in
Russia .
The European
specification of Ural is different to the
US specification, we cannot deliver
US legal Urals.
The prices of Ural with
sidecar are from EUR 8.100,-- (cheapest model “Ural T”) up to EUR
10.400,-- (best model for your purpose “Ranger”).
Depending on which
country you want to purchase, you must add 19% VAT (for example in
Germany ) up to 33% (for example in
Austria ).
Biggest problem for you
as citizen from the USA is,
that you are not able to register a motorcycle in Europe ,
when you do not have a domicile here.
So whenever somebody from
the USA wants to buy a Ural
for driving in Europe we recommend to rent a
Ural instead of buying.
I don’t know if you
can buy and register a Ural in Russia .
Generally I think the
best is to buy and register in the USA
and then drive this bike through
Russia .
Best regards
Hari S.
Ural Motorcycles GmbH
ATU 56984008
Congenia GmbH
ATU67260901
Albrechtstraße 26
A-4614 Marchtrenk
Telefon: +43/7243/21515
Fax: +43/7243/21519
Facebook: Ural Motorcycles Europe
Re: AW: Urals for Tour of Russia
Dear Herr S.,
Thank
you very much for the swift reply, and for the sound advice. I shall
continue to investigate my alternatives, including the purchase of a
Ural in Russia, the rental of a Ural, and the transporting of my own
rugged old 1969 BMW R60US (in the attached picture) to Europe to share
the adventure with me, as it has so often done in the past. Though it
has no sidecar, my old R60, with a 7.0 to 1 compression ratio and
magneto ignition, has a way
of running well on poor fuel, and of always bringing me home.
Beginning that aforementioned investigation, suppose I were to rent a Ural sidecar rig from your company for a tour of two months, and roughly 22,000 Km. What might that cost? And if afterwards I were to buy the machine, would you be willing count the rental as part of its price?
Beginning that aforementioned investigation, suppose I were to rent a Ural sidecar rig from your company for a tour of two months, and roughly 22,000 Km. What might that cost? And if afterwards I were to buy the machine, would you be willing count the rental as part of its price?
I note that your address is Marchtrenk, Austria. My wife Shirl and I may be driving that way this coming May on our way from Fellbach, DE, to Cluj (Klausenburg), RO. If so, with your invitation, I should like to stop and meet you.
Tschüss,
Duncan
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And then, following a telephone conversation:
Hi Duncan,
It was nice to talk to you. Thank you for the phone call.
Dmitry B., General Manager
978-263-9000 Ext 111
AlphaCars & Ural of New England
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