“Ural's Working On Its First Completely New Motorcycle Since Forever, and I Rode It”
By Janaki Jitchotvisut, July 2025

Ural Neo 500

“If you've never ridden a sidecar motorcycle before, you may not know this. But so many people want to talk to you. They smile, they wave, they yell excitedly across the street at you in traffic. And it's almost never in an angry way. Usually, it's in a very excited way...

… The company invited me out to the Seattle, Washington area to ride the one and only prototype in the US in person, and I'm going to tell you all about the bike right now.”