When I was taking a rest on the path of my drive, an unfamiliar motorcycle with a sidecar came in the parking space. I originally love motorcycles, though I don't have any now, and I've changed my motorcycles several times from an off-road type to a cruiser, or a touring bike. However, I haven't wanted to get this bike and haven't even see it.
It reads "URAL" on its gasoline tank. I wouldn't have thought that there is a Russian-made motorcycle in Japan, the motorcycle kingdom. The world championship has been competed among the Japanese motorcycle manufacturers for years. Tastes differ. I don't mean to offend the owner.
I remembered some surprising news. It said that a Russian reconnaissance drone which was shot down in Ukraine was equipped with an engine for radio-controlled model airplanes which was smuggled from Japan. Russia is a developed country in the weapon-producing field, but it cannot manufacture even decent consumer products like cars, fridges, TVs, and so on. Taking a close look at the bike's engine, it seemed to me that the engine was a horizontally opposed engine from BMW.
(Vocabulary)
Tastes differ. 蓼食う虫も好き好き
horizontally opposed engine 水平対向エンジン
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