INDUSTRY

BEHIND THE COUNTER GENUINE BOURBON WHISKEY COMES FROM KENTUCKY. SO DO URALS. REALLY?

Jon Taylor
URAL-IMZ AUSTRALIA

500 Terrible Vale Road,
Kentucky, NSW 2354

02 6778 7436
jon@imzural.com.au

Back in 2007, Jon Taylor was looking for a new challenge after handing over the reins of his family farm to the sixth generation. Jon is no stranger to a little challenge and probably still holds the highest finish position for an under-200cc motorcycle in the Australian Safari. He was also very active in Landcare and forestry, and imported equipment for some of Australia’s leading forest nurseries.

Jon wanted to put his extensive motorcycle and sidecar experience to good use and decided to help the many riders who wanted to learn to operate a sidecar outfit.

There is an anomaly in our licencing system; a motorcycle licence allows you to drive an outfit, when in fact you do not necessarily know how! It is quite a different skill; you need a learning period and it can be quite dangerous for an unsuspecting new owner.

Jon needed sidecars, of course, and chose the Urals after testing them overseas. He then negotiated with Ural to become the Australian importer. He runs the business and teaches outfit riding from his family farm near Kentucky, a small rural village south of Armidale in NSW. Stuart has done his course and was very happy with it; he returned as a skilled outfit rider who could scare the licing daylights out of anyone foolish enough to sit in the chair…