On lock down but every cloud as they say, so I dragged the old Ariel out of the garage
and though it last ran 30 odd years ago I have it running.

What a lovely old lady! Almost as young as me! I was just reading Frank Westworth about his square four in this month's Real Classic!

Looks far too good not to be in regular use...

Wont be long before it's back were it belongs, riding round the local lanes.

And the dynamo's working!!
Amazed the magneto is, after 30 years - does it start again when hot?
My first Brit bike (in '66) was a '57 NH; my re-introduction to old bikes was a '54 NH around 20 years ago; and I really enjoyed my '57 Huntmaster and '28 Model C...

Stunning bike, is it a young red hunter prototype.

It seems to start ok hot or cold but that may change when it gets rely hot,
it was made just after the war as a touring motorcycle using the prewar
trials frame that had been used with mods for the military WNG, the
Red Hunters were a slightly more sporting bike with a lower frame though
you need to look at them side by side to tell.
I've had 2 Red Hunters and a VB 600 side valve in the passed did over
22000 miles on one of the Red Hunters.

"Real" Ariels were good sturdy machines. I rode a KH twin ( 1958? ) in the late 1960s until it was written off by a mini van driven by an apparently blind driver. Living in student accommodation at the time I had no option but to let it go and I regret that to this day.

They are certainly not fragile, the thing isn't fast but it pulls like a train.

It's magnificent Ralph, beautifully original! But why hasn't it been run for 30 years??