The museum is a nice idea, I gave a talk to a 41 Club meeting a while back on the history of Ariel and, in researching it, was fascinated by the efforts of Messrs Starley, Sangster etc., their involvement in things like differentials, tensioned spokes and their links with other enterprises such as D...

Just spotted this in the letters page of The Motor Cycle.

Personally I like higher gearing for a more relaxed pootle but if you want to go fast....

I can remember many years ago having a discussion with the MOT tester re my Huntmaster not having any nuts on the seat studs. We had pretty much the same discussion about while in theory you dont want a seat that could come loose while you're riding in reality it was never going to be a problem unle...

Thats tremendous. Would be lovely to see it up and running in tradesman spec. Probably unique :¬)

Never seen that article but the Huntmaster I had in the 80's had been tuned by the previous owner - apparently Road Rocket head, pistons & cams but I didn't have any details. Think he taught engineering. I had it for 9 years during which it was 100% reliable & certainly went well :¬) Huntmas...

Untaxed since 1981
Looks a nice little project for someone

Welcome back - great looking bike :¬)

My neighbour is a big Vespa fan, commutes on them in all weathers, goes to rallies all over the place.
Mind you, he has two because one is always in bits. I suspect he's a masochist.

I was watching a film on youtube about the cannonball run. Great stuff. However a chap with repo forks on his Brough had them break. The investigation showed they could have sheared at any time so he was lucky he was going slow when it happened. Different design but you never know what quality metal...

Snippet of an article from Oct 1948