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The Ural Wolf - (Rest in peace)
This site is now a memorial to the short lived Ural Wolf
Dedicated to 750cc of "Russian Iron"
Creator: Nick Staib
The Ural Wolf was a Russian shaft-driven bike with a 750cc air-cooled horizontally opposed "boxer" engine.
The Ural Wolf was a Russian shaft-driven bike with a 750cc air-cooled horizontally opposed "boxer" engine.
Motorcycle Rider - “I’ve ridden more than a few American and Japanese cruisers that don’t ride as well as this...”
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Web links:
USA - Importer IMWA
Russia - IMZ Ural
2006 to 2026
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2006 - The August site launch was fun - 350 visitors that first weekend.
Welcome Australia and NZ; North & S America; India and Bahrain; South Africa and Egypt; Scandinavia; Europe and, of course, "mother Russia"
2007/8 - Added site to Wikipedia. Google now indexed it. Google images brought visitors from Alaska to Mongolia via Iceland, from the Aleutian Islands to Bogotá. All came to enjoy the Ural Wolf.
Google Analytics reports 4,000 visitors (from launch) from 88 different countries - spending an average of 5:48 minutes.
2009/10 - Steady climb to 65,000+ visitors.
800 more Urals made in the factory in 2010.
2016 - We made a decade on the web...
2022 -Migrated to sites,google,com
2025 - updated
A warm welcome to the web's finest Ural Wolf remembrance website!
The Wolf was a handsome bike from the Ural Mountains of Russia. Simple by modern standards so easy to home maintain. No need for any diagnostic system here. Sure, the valves chattered and the gear change is solid, but - if the worst does ever happen - what other bikes can be fixed with their own comprehensive tool kits?
These bikes generated huge 'loyalty' - see typical comment below from the early Guestbook:
"My Wolf and I are having a nice life here in cold Scandinavia. Have never had problems with it! I keep running with the wind, and see where the road will take me and my wolf. "
Like other cruisers, the Ural Wolf can be fitted with extras. Below, a factory bike has been transformed into a proudly owned and unique custom touring bike.
A wet white-walled Wolf
So, what can you expect here?
So, what can you expect here?
Photos and links to other online resources, pages on the 750cc engine, on DIY maintenance and on reliability - all topics raised by potential riders. Sadly a number of pages that I first linked to have now gone off the air.
The Wolf was blessed with a fine leather saddle and curves, but was ultimately too expensive for market success
Living history
Living history
BMW R71
This R71 above is the source of Ural DNA. The R71 was itself derived from the first elegant BMW motorbike, the R32 below, designed 10 years earlier, in 1923.
BMW R32
The history of these well travelled Russian motorcycles is murky, but can be traced back to 1939, when Russians engineers obtained BMW R71 bikes and sidecars. Reverse engineering the bikes, they built M-72's by the thousands to be used in the defence of Mother Russia against the Nazi invaders.
As the German army thrust towards Moscow, the Russians relocated one of the factories further East, to the city of Irbit, in the safety of the Ural Mountains. From there came their name.
Production in Irbit started in an ex-brewery and following privatisation in 1992, and a management buyout in 2000, remained an important source of local employment until Russia's invasion of Ukraine., when production of Gear-ups was moved to Kazakhstan.
On to punchy page 2 > The Engine
My thanks to all whose images I have shamelessly plundered to help liven up this experimental site :-)
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