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Russian motorcycle brand Ural has unveiled new engine and powertrain updates for 2023 , including a new engine case , can , roller tappets , a new rubber rocker cover gasket to replace the old , time honored cork design in 2019 and up engines , and a new CV sidecar driveshaft to replace the old U-joint shaft . Excepting for the new gasket , the upgrades are all reverse compatible with all 750 cc air-cooled horizontally opposed flat-twin Ural Engines . Founded in 1941 to provide transport for Russian troops in WWII , the war between Russia and Ukraine forced Ural to relocate assembly from its spiritual home at Irbit in Russia to Petropavlovsk in Kazakhstan . Urals are sold through an international dealer network in over 40 countries across five continents . The company is led by a small team in Redmond , WA that coordinates worldwide distribution and works directly with the factory " to develop and refine the best adventure ready sidecar motorcycles ."
The world ' s oldest surviving national newspaper has printed its final edition . Austria ' s Wiener Zeitung has published its final print edition almost 320 years after the first . A law change in Austria ended a legal requirement in that country for companies to publish public announcements in the print edition of the newspaper , terminating Wiener Zeitung ' s role as an official gazette . The change resulted in an immediate loss of an estimated € 18m loss of annual income and has forced the paper to cut 63 jobs , reduce the editorial staff from 55 to 20 and close its print edition . The paper is owned by the Austrian government but is editorially independent and outlasted 12 presidents , 10 kaisers and two republics . The oldest surviving print newspaper is now thought to be Germany ' s Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung , which started in 1705 .
Bombardier Recreational Products ( BRP ) has marked its recent 10th anniversary as a publicly traded company by reporting record first quarter revenues of CAN $ 2,429m (+ 34 %), EBITDA of $ 377m (+ 39 %) and + 3 % North American Powersports retail sales growth . EPS of $ 2.38 marked an increase of $ 0.72 per share or + 43 %. The owner of Rotax in Austria , BRP recently commissioned its new European R & D campus on the Cote d ' Azur and announced the return of the Can-Am brand to the motorcycle market with a range of electric models planned for showrooms in 2015 .
Peery Leads AHDRA Pounding at Milan
Story and photos by Tim Hailey of Eatmyink Motorsport Media
AHDRA / AMA took their groundpounding Nitro Harley-Davidson motorcycle drag racing show to Milan Dragway for the Second Annual Southern Michigan Bikefest ( July 29-30 , 2023 ) and gave the Michigan fans some thunderous competition that they won ' t soon forget . NHRA U . S . Nationals winner and 2021 AHDRA champion Ryan Peery ruled the Top Fuel class with his customary fist of consistent performances . The final knockout punch was delivered against recent Kuhnle winner Jason Pridemore . Peery took the tree with an . 032 to Pridemore ' s . 103 , but Jason ' s supercharged " Gunslinger " started laying down better numbers to the 60 foot , the 330 , the eighth , and even 1,000 feet . But it was there that Pridemore ' s march slowed , his trap speed of 184.16 miles per hour a tick slower than his eighth mile velocity . Peery was going 214 and took the win against his fellow Ohio racer with a 6.45 to Jason ' s 6.54 . One week after thrilling Milan fans at their Night of Fire , defending champion and 2022 Milan race winner Tracy Kile qualified second just one hundredth behind Peery , but fell to Pridemore in E1 . Like Kile in Top Fuel , Michael Balch was the defending Milan winner and Nitro Funnybike champion . And also like Kile , Balch struggled this time around . So much so that first year nitro rider Cameron Gunter took number one qualifier on Saturday . But Balch took the tree against Gunter by nearly three tenths on race day . And that ' s what delivered the win , as Balch ' s still not completely sorted bike ran two tenths slower than Gunter on track for a holeshot victory . Hawaya Racing Pro Fuel champion Sam White started off the weekend with struggles of his own but got it all
Chris Hoppe
Ryan Peery
straightened out in time for the final against recent Indy AMRA winner " Bad Apple Mary " Dangrow . Neither racer was exactly hot on the tree , with Mary ' s . 129 besting Sam ' s
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. 203 . But from there on , White ' s Hawaya Racing-built Terminator Too started making up ground and took the win with a 7.46 at 164 to Dangrow ' s . 66 at 163 . AHDRA ' s two nearly unlimited no-bar classes , GMS Racing Engines Xtreme Outlaw and MTC Pro Comp Outlaw Bagger , were combined at Milan and resulted in a Bagger vs . no-bags , all-turbo final .
Defending Milan winner Charley Douglass and his recently reassembled Outlaw took the win against Frank Wojcik ' s Bagger , the number one qualifier .
John Price is having a heck of a season , of Zipper ' s Performance Products Pro Modified racing , qualifying number one and taking the win at Milan . He beat Chris Hoppe in the final . Kimberly " K-Charm " Deshields continued her Axtell Cylinders Super Modified mastery , besting number one qualifier Gary Douglass in the final . Nate Carnahan had a great weekend , winning both Pingel Modified and 10.30 index . Nate beat Jeff Workman on a holeshot in a great round 1 Modified race , with his 9.84 beating Workman ' s quicker-butlosing . 82 . He then earned the winner ' s plaque when number one qualifier Dru Conner broke in the final . Carnahan stayed close to the 10.30 index to win the Super Pro final against national anthem chanteuse Heather Jendruch . Perry Paugh qualified number one in 10.30 and lost in round 2 . No-bar racer Brad Reiss Jr . was also
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