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	<title>Travels with Smutyanka</title>
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	<description>Adventures Aboard a Soviet Motorcycle</description>
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		<title>The Ural Workout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Looking to lose weight?  Well, get rid of your stair-climber and get  yourself a kickstart-only Ural motorcycle.  I guarantee that you will have calves of  steel in no time.
Smutyanka is having ignition issues.  Trying to kickstart a bike  150-200 times will give you quite a workout.  I am really not pleased that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2010/06/14/the-ural-workout/</link>
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		<title>She&#8217;s Back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smutyanka was finally returned to us yesterday.  I don&#8217;t have very nice things to say about our mechanic, who had her for 5 months and still didn&#8217;t fix everything we asked him to, but at least she&#8217;s back, with new pistons, cylinders, and brakes, and she idles well without stalling.  Something is up with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2010/06/11/shes-back/</link>
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		<title>Smutyanka Will Be Back Soon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got a call from the shop that has had Smutyanka, our Ural sidecar  motorcycle, for a little over three months.  She&#8217;s all ready to go, but  he lost the keys (first time in his career, apparently), so he had to  remove the ignition and take it to a locksmith to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2010/04/04/smutyanka-will-be-back-soon/</link>
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		<title>A Visit to the Shop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Marc and I finally threw in the towel and sent Smutyanka off to the mechanic&#8217;s.  We found out that the other Ural owners in this area use a very small shop called Brooks Cycles.  It&#8217;s only a two man outfit, but they&#8217;re really nice, they offer free towing, they have experience working on Urals, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2010/01/20/a-visit-to-the-shop/</link>
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		<title>Throttle Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, apparently we need to severely shorten our throttle cable, but nobody seems to be able to give us directions on how to do so.
Ah, the joys of Urals&#8230;
At least it&#8217;ll probably be warm enough to ride by the time we get her running!
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		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2009/12/15/throttle-problems/</link>
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		<title>Smutyanka is misbehaving again&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Smutyanka is living up to her namesake again.  (Smutyanka is &#8220;female troublemaker&#8221; in Russian)
We did a lot of work on her last week and replaced the air filter, put on the new carburetor flanges and heat blocks, and replaced the torn fuel line.  Our plan was to take her to Crossroads Cycles this week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2009/12/07/smutyanka-is-misbehaving-again/</link>
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		<title>Quick-Disconnects For The Battery?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that it&#8217;s cold, we have found that Smutyanka&#8217;s batteries get depleted pretty fast from sitting outside, so we&#8217;re considering installing some quick-disconnects on the lines.  We&#8217;re not all that familiar with electronic work and don&#8217;t even really know where to start with this.  Can any of you folks perhaps point us in the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2009/12/02/quick-disconnects-for-the-battery/</link>
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		<title>A Few Ural Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sound a Ural engine makes is often compared to &#8220;a sewing machine missing a few parts&#8221;.  I tend to agree, but here, you can decide for yourself:

An amusing video in German about the superiority of a Ural sidecar rig over a Harley sidecar rig:

Who needs a snowmobile if you have a Ural?

The Ural factory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2009/11/28/a-few-ural-videos/</link>
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		<title>If it&#8217;s not one thing, it&#8217;s another&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I swear, as soon as you fix one thing on a Ural, something else breaks.
Last week it was our right-side carburetor deciding that it didn&#8217;t want to stay attached to the engine head (the flange/compliance fitting on that side is old and the rubber is stiff, making it difficult to crimp the pipe clamp down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2009/11/22/if-its-not-one-thing-its-another/</link>
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		<title>1995 Ural Tourist Wiring Diagram</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally got ahold of the wiring diagram for our Ural.  Somehow, I suspect this will be very helpful in the future.  It looks complicated, but really, once you figure out how to read it, it&#8217;s really quite a simple setup.  Click the image to see the larger version.

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		<link>http://www.driftingfocus.com/ural/2009/11/15/1995-ural-tourist-wiring-diagram/</link>
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