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Ariel Racer OCT BUY SELL RIDE RESTORE OCTOBER 2018 PRINTED IN THE UK 330 October 2018 £4.30 . No UK Off-sale date 31/10/2018 GREEVES ESSEX TWIN BUYING GUIDE // STRIP YOUR TWOSTROKE // BSA B31 RESTORATION // MALLE MILE // CAFE RACER CUP // SHETLAND CLASSIC // THE CLASSIC TT // MIKE HAILWOOD REPLICA 001 Cover_OCT.indd 1 13/09/2018 10:34:50 21/05/1513 September 2018 8:49 AM 010 Ariel racer_OCT Ariel racer Hugh Ramsey may have dipped in and out of Ariel ownership throughout his time, but the passion has always been there. Starting with a box of assorted parts, he’s built a beautiful special that oozes character WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY STUART URQUHART 010 Ariel racer_OCT.indd 10 13/09/2018 08:49:27 21/05/1513 September 2018 8:49 AM 21/05/1513 September 2018 8:49 AM 010 Ariel racer_OCT 010 Ariel racer_OCT CLASSIC BIKE GUIDE || OCTOBER 2018 11 010 Ariel racer_OCT.indd 11 13/09/2018 08:49:37 21/05/1513 September 2018 8:49 AM 010 Ariel racer_OCT ugh (The Prez) Ramsay has a deep when I was 12 years old – a Huntmaster 500 and a passion for Ariel motorcycles and has blue rigid VB; the latter I fell instantly in love with. Both been infatuated with the marque ever were owned by our local garage proprietor ‘Harry the since he was a lad. Now that Hugh is Spanner’, and I pestered him at every opportunity to Henjoying his middle years, the Ariel ember let me sit and play on his blue VB – we became good still glows brightly. Presently he is the proud owner of no friends and he instilled within me a lifelong appreciation less than four Ariels – a 1939 VB 600 outfit, 1957 Red of Ariel. Hunter VH 500 and a 1957 500 HT bench project that “Then one day, at 19 years young, I bought my own patiently awaits his attention (and that of my camera). Ariel VB600 and sidecar. I used it to impress the birds However, when a picture of Hugh’s 1939 Red Hunter and the bees, and even took my outfit away on weekend 500 Racer popped up on Facebook it became my camping trips. I soon learned from our village postman mission to photograph and bag its story for CBG. (and Ariel enthusiast) that Harry the Spanner fancied As many readers will have observed from the my VB. So, impulsively, I sold it on to Harry in order to selection of photos, Hugh’s bike is oozing patina like raise funds for a holiday with my girlfriend – a decision honey from a comb. It is simply delicious. Heads turn that I would later live to regret; for I missed my old VB wherever this old master is parked, and jaws drop at long before the girlfriend and holidays had become the sound of its passing – usually at Hugh’s downtown distant memories. pub in the estuary village of Kincardine on Forth. His Red Hunter just looks so appealing, richly cloaked in its REUNITED ONCE AGAIN mature paintwork and tarnished chrome. And like any “So I bought a decrepit, non-running Ariel Red Hunter priceless relic, this old racer appears to have originality 500, and restored it after a fashion,” Hugh was careful and history indelibly stamped all over its oily skin. to emphasise. “I then added the sidecar from the VB But, as the old adage goes: ‘Appearances can be that I had sold to Harry, before having to remove it once deceptive.’ Which I discovered, is very much the case again when crafty old Harry flashed a wad of oil-stained with Hugh’s convincing classic racer – for its antiquity bank notes under my nose. So my old VB and sidecar has been expertly forged. were once again reunited, but now with Harry the Cunning Spanner,” Hugh mockingly growled. FASCINATING STORY “Not long after, I swapped my restored Red Hunter From the outset I was looking forward to learning for a Rocket Gold Star, and I ended up being Ariel-less all about this attractive racer’s heritage – only to be for a very long time. Several bikes came and went, but I dumbfounded when Hugh revealed that his lovely Ariel always yearned for my old VB outfit.” was built from boxes of unrelated parts and spares he So, Hugh launched a campaign to hassle Harry the had unearthed on the autojumble trail. What follows is Spanner into selling the VB outfit back to him and 28 its fascinating story... years later he relented and Hugh was reunited with his “As a boy I was brought up on outfits – that’s sidecars beloved VB outfit. Hugh then signed up to the Scottish to you and me,” winked Hugh. “I had a BSA M20, Ariel Owners’ Club which holds section meetings just AJS Model 20 and an Ariel VB outfit and I travelled yards from his front door and then began the hunt for everywhere on them – especially the VB outfit. Trips to another project – but most specifically for an Ariel the country, weekend camping with the lads, and runs single. Enter another of Hugh’s biker friends and to Anstruther for traditional fish suppers at the UK’s one who happened to own the local legend that was most famous fish and chip shop – my formative years ‘Martin’s Shed’ – a ramshackle building rumoured to be were happy times! stacked to the rafters with old classic motorcycles (you “I have lived in Kincardine for all of my life and I know the sort!). came across my first Ariel(s) at our local village garage Hugh went on to explain that his friend Martin was 12 OCTOBER 2018 || CLASSIC BIKE GUIDE 010 Ariel racer_OCT.indd 12 13/09/2018 08:49:46 21/05/1513 September 2018 8:49 AM 21/05/1513 September 2018 8:49 AM 010 Ariel racer_OCT 010 Ariel racer_OCT “When he departed, he promised to turn up the following weekend with a crate of beers and help me get the Ariel project back on track. He did, and I am eternally grateful for his help.” actually a hoarder first, and collector second; so true to pull a motorcycle from the assortment of parts to form, Martin had a reputation for being ‘techt- that I had spread across my garage floor – a pair of fisted’ and ‘parted wi’ nowt’, to quote Hugh. Hugh matching crankcases, one barrel and (rebuilt) twin- however, had his eye on a pile of Ariel VH parts that port cylinder head, a selection of rocker boxes, two Martin had acquired and stored in his shed with sets of primary chaincases, a 1937 frame with front the intention of building himself a rigid Red Hunter mudguard and stays attached, a set of bent girders, sometime in the future. One night at their local pub, one saddle, two hubs, one front rim, two primed Hugh reminded Martin that he’d been boasting of petrol tanks, one oil tank, one Burman gearbox building ‘this Ariel’ ever since the moon landings, and a pile of NOS small parts. I estimated that and that they both knew this was never likely to although I had many major parts, I only had 50% of happen. After several nips of whisky Martin relented, a 1937 VH500.” and Hugh became the new owner of Martin’s box of Undaunted, Hugh contacted several friends and Ariel parts. members of the AOMCC and began to track down “Although I’d managed to get my hands on the missing parts. At the same time he begun Martin’s Ariel, I knew I was facing a long-term build to restore many of the larger items that he had 010 Ariel racer_OCT.indd 13 13/09/2018 08:49:55 21/05/1513 September 2018 8:49 AM 010 Ariel racer_OCT liberated from Martin’s Shed. supplied by Hitchcocks Motorcycles – both “While I was scouring jumbles all over the expensive, but important investments that UK I began to formulate the idea of building would later prove worthwhile to achieving an old prewar race bike – the sort you might reliability and excellent running. The bent discover in a ramshackle barn, and one that and worn girder forks were sent to another had been lying undisturbed for generations. Ariel specialist – Jess Ryles, who fitted NOS The idea appealed to me, because as I bronze WD bushes (wrapped in original WD began to accumulate larger parts such as greased paper) and straightened out the missing mudguards, wheels and toolboxes, girder’s bent downtubes. In the meantime, I soon realised they possessed a lovely Hugh began to look around for paintwork patina. In essence, I wanted to build suppliers and a missing toolbox. myself an authentic-looking motorcycle that “While Jess was rebuilding my forks I could be passed as a genuine yesteryear contacted the Scottish AOMC parts stockist, machine. Little did I realise the calamitous Ian MacLauchlan – a man with an enviable journey that lay ahead,” Hugh hinted with a reputation for rebuilding Ariel engines. Ian mordant smile. offered to strip and rebuild my engine in a With a brief now clearly formed in his day, provided I would bring it south to his mind, Hugh began to farm out parts to Borders workshop and act as his ‘apprentice specialist engineers and suppliers. Member and tea boy,” beamed Hugh. John Budgeon rewound a used magneto “So I went down to Crawfordjohn with supplied by the Ariel Owners’ Club and a a pile of engine parts and some teabags new Amal pre-monobloc carburettor was and I returned with a lighter wallet but a 14 OCTOBER 2018 || CLASSIC BIKE GUIDE 010 Ariel racer_OCT.indd 14 13/09/2018 08:50:02 21/05/1513 September 2018 8:49 AM 21/05/1513 September 2018 8:49 AM 010 Ariel racer_OCT 010 Ariel racer_OCT beautiful new engine – one which had been Cammy was an old school fixer-upper and each end – simply to allow the mid-section transformed to Red Hunter specification.
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