Ride Three is on holiday break until January 2009. All the best to you and yours!

Editor’s Note - Not Sveta, by the way. When adjusting the valves on your Ural, you need to roll your engine to its timing marks. But what happens if you can’t find them?

After reading the forum I figured I would try and adjust my valves on my 2007 gear up. After removing the rubber cap I can’t find the timing marks on the flywheel. I have rotated the engine until I could spin the lifters on each cylinder and then adjusted from there. Now I am a little worried I didn’t have it at TDC. Did I do the right thing or is there something else I need to look for?

Follow the whole discussion: Soviet Steeds - No Timing Marks

What’s in your Urals’ trunk? Here’s what I carry in Svetlana’s trunk. What should you carry in yours? The lads on Soviet Steeds all give lengthy, detailed lists of what they carry:

Soviet Steeds - What’s in your trunk?

Keep an eye out for the November/December edition of RoadBike Magazine, and their New Bike Test of the 2008 Ural GearUp:

I am not a big motorcycle mag reader but today I was killin time in wally world waiting on a rotate and balance on my tires. Stopped by the magazine section and see the words “Trikes & Sidecars” and “Ural Test” on one of the covers. The Nov/Dec edition of RoadBike has done a New Bike Test of the 2008 Ural GearUp, pages 54, 55 and 56, a short article on pages 74-75 on Learning to Drive a Sidecar Outfit and a review of the second edition printing of the manual titled “Driving a Sidecar Outfit” published by the Sidecar Safety Program. All in all each article seems to be fair and accurate.

More on this: Soviet Steeds - Ural in Magazine Article