From: HOWARD E WRIGHT (dvsww2@msn.com)
Date: Sun Apr 16 2006 - 09:34:36 PDT
If I remembering right the Ural is OHV and the German BMW's were flat heads.
The chinese Chang Jiang is a flathead copy of an earlier Russian bike. One
of my friends had one painted Luffe gray with a side car as he did German.
He had problems with the Chinese wiring and finally after It not having much
power we found that when it was built someone had a bad day as the lined the
ring gaps up so one side had little compression. After some wrangling he
got new pistons and rings and gaskets and he had it bored. It really ran
good after the rebuild, The side car is an adventure, especially on rough
ground. This came as a kit as apparantly it didn/t meet DOT for import..
Whoops forgot TJ is a DOT inspector LOL
----- Original Message -----
From: <timothy.smith1@att.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Pseudo HMVs and Re enactors
> Ron,
>
> My buddy's brother owns the Chinese knock-off motorcycle with sidecar.
> Has his painted in the Wehrmacht blue gray with white stars. Frankly, he
> did too nice of a job.
>
> All photos I've seen of captured vehicles in use have a big sloppy star
> painted on every side's largest panel. The stars look like they've been
> put on with a wallpaper paste brush...hasty and almost amateurish.
>
> I'd imagine experienced GI's became fairly adept at distinguishing
> friendly vehicles from foe by war's end, even at a distance, and a great
> big star might make the difference from having a good day or a very BAD
> day. I'd also imagine that regardless of how well marked it was, one
> would probably not stray too far from his own outfit on captured equipment
> given the distinctive sound most German equipment has. And of course
> there were the Jabos who were always looking for something to hose.
>
> TJ
>
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Ron" <rojoha@adelphia.net>
> > Anyone out there using a URAL motorcycle with sidecar in WWII reenacting
> > as
> > a Weremacht or captured BMW R71?
> > Bought a 2006 Ural Gear Up (complete with factory machine gun hard
> > point
> > on the side car) in Russian woodland green and am thinking it would look
> > better in grey with white outlined black crosses over painted with white
> > stars. At least maybe Dr. Deuce would let me follow his CCKW with it.
> > A WLA was out of the question because it's too heavy for me to hold
> > up
> > when stopped for anything more than a minute or two, let alone pick it
> > up
> > unassisted if I drop it during a parade.
> > Anyone know if there were any regulations issued by the Allies
> > regarding
> > the marking of captured equipment and it's use?
> > Did the US Constabulary Corp. run a lot of German equipment during
> > the
> > occupation or period there after?
> > If interested go to http://www.imz-ural.com/ and click on the second
> > picture from the right over the 'URAL Cartoons' block.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ronzo
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