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972 breakdowns – from this the film title “972 Breakdowns” is derived.
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The contributions on leavinghomeffunktion.com are written in German, English and Russian.
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Five people, four Ural teams, one time around the world. East to get west.
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On leavinghomeffunktion.com it says: “What we want is to postpone our everyday life, to leave the familiar surroundings in order to shift our life into uncertain, foreign territory for a while.”
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“The fact that we only have a slight idea of motorcycle technology and that no mechanic accompanies us on the trip shows that, …
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… that just completing the route with a speed record is not our aim.”
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“We see the fact that a breakdown could lurk around every bend and that the number of necessary repairs is probably the same as the number of mosquitoes in Siberia is less a problem than a potential of this trip.”
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“We will definitely meet people who may initially think our travel concept is absurd. Nevertheless, we believe that most of them will still help us. That they let themselves be carried away by our enthusiasm and thus become part and focus of the whole project.”
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Those who wanted to support the project could financially help the troop on the crowdfunding platform PATREON. In return there was “a whole range of delicacies on the go”.
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“Thanks to the great support of the American company AIRE, we are able to produce a prototype for the KOLYMA CHALLENGE”
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“2 x 5 m long AIRE pontoons are waiting to be lowered into the water.”
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This is how it works: the teams on floating pontoons, lengthen the cardan and convert it into a propeller drive.
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It went 1,600 kilometers downstream in a northeasterly direction to the East Siberian Sea.
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The troop covered a total of 43,000 kilometers.
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With small and big challenges.
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“972 Breakdowns” will be shown in cinemas nationwide from September 3rd.
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The 110-minute film produced by cell phone cameras and drone recordings received the verdict from us: “highly recommended”.
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The Ural plant in Irbit, Russia
The Ural plant in Irbit, Russia
Irbit and Orbi
In terms of locomotion, the Irbit Urals have long been a blessing for millions of Russians. Today 95 percent are exported to the world; in Russia nobody wants them anymore. Time seems to stand in the factory.
Michael Schumann
07/07/2016
The year is 2016 and Ural runs Russia’s last large motorcycle factory: Proud workers and their handmade products – a supposedly perfect Jack Daniel’s world in western Siberia. But the idyll is deceptive. Because time has by no means stood still for the 100 of the 9,000 Ural workers that were once still working. On the contrary. She runs faster and faster. And soon threatens to expire completely.
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In 1942, Stalin had the war-important production of motorcycles for his Red Army hectically relocated to the southern Urals. Just away from Moscow and out of the reach of the Air Force and the Wehrmacht. Their BMW K71 sidecars had served as a technical model for the Ural M (for “Motozikl”) 72. The Russian team builders finally found their safe haven in a former brewery in Irbit – and have since built around 3.2 million 650 and 750 four-stroke boxer motorcycles there. Technically, they have always tried to keep pace. Made the leap from side-operated engines to pushrod-operated valves, expanded and exported – and eventually got privatized.
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From dinosaur to primeval cattle motorcycle
In 2000, three entrepreneurs of Russian descent living in the USA bought the Ural plant and brought production up to date. The Russian boxer mutated from a dinosaur motorcycle to a primeval cattle motorcycle: Keihin carburetors, electronic Denso ignition and spring elements from ZF-Sachs. In the race against time, the Urals had caught up. And in 2014 we almost caught up with the times: Electronic injection systems replaced the carburettors and the 30 kW (41 hp) of the 750 series has since been stopped by Brembo disc brakes – on all three wheels (mostly with Heidenau tires).
But today, 2016, the time is running out. “It is the US importer’s turn to use American Delphi technology to bring the emissions levels to Euro 4,” says Hari Schwaighofer. The Austrian has been the sole importer of the Urals in Europe since 2003. There are around 300 per year, excluding teams, because they do not need ABS, and at prices from 12,500 euros. But “if the Americans can’t manage it, that’s it,” he says soberly. Are Ural motorcycles a dying breed? Hopefully not.
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