At the end of 2022, as production shifted to Kazakhstan, Ural quietly retired the cT. For years, the lower-spec Ural had labored along in obscurity in the shadow of its larger, more capable, more popular sibling, the Gear Up. I always liked the cT, and preferred it over the 2WD-equipped Gear Up because I figured the kind of riding I did—city errands, commuting, and paved-road touring—didn't require the Gear Up's off-road bonafides. Sadly, though, when I went to buy my Ural there were no cTs to be had and I ended up with a Gear Up anyway.
The switch to a single production bike—instead of one wildly popular one and one slow seller that was just different enough from its more popular cousin to complicate production—made sense for numerous reasons. It did, however, leave an entry-level-shaped hole in Ural's lineup that the cT had so nicely filled. Ural has now refilled that hole, as it were, with the new Gear Up Base.
