What a lovely machine....A real time-capsule....I'm restoring one at the moment, a bit of a bitsa.....1953 KHA bottomend, 1956 HS frame, Hope it'll run as sweetly as this baby :-)
Beautiful, and how I like them, it started so easy and running like a dream though much of this was down to expert fettling, you would wonder why a bike like this was ever put away with so little if anything wrong with it. I bet when it started you had trouble controlling yourself even more so than a newly built engine. Hey, less of the rattly Triumphs! I'm seriously thinking of buying one of these at the moment, its a 53 model in Wedgewood blue, I would prefer an oily rag as is my 37 Velo MSS500 and 36 NSU OSL500. Its an ok restoration let down by the paintwork for a restored bike is very very amateurish and isn't what I'd like it to be, so a lick of paint on the guards and tank it will be, other than that a really nice bike. I will make my decision soon if the deal is good, hopefully, this weekend or next. A vid of the bike on the road would be good. Well done guys.
Shame on you for doing this. You had that motorcycle running on high rev,s for 20 minutes on its first start up in over 57 years without stopping it to check it over. Did you not catch on the engine was cooking when you seen the excessive smoke coming from the engine and the header pipes going brown. You don't deserve that Ariel or any motorcycle . I have a 1952 KH and i wouldn't dream of letting it run for more than 5 minuets without riding it to get the air around it
You dont know what you're taliking about.. The smoke is just new paint burning off the engine. Dont you think that anyone that has the skill to rebuild an entire motorbike, might just know what they're doing. As for the brand new down pipes heating up and starting to blue. Do you even have a bike, where is your proof that you have a clue what you're talking about.
Your god's that was brilliant , beautiful bike I bet your still beaming
What a lovely machine....A real time-capsule....I'm restoring one at the moment, a bit of a bitsa.....1953 KHA bottomend, 1956 HS frame, Hope it'll run as sweetly as this baby :-)
First road run will be coming up shorty, once I get the video sorted
Beautiful, and how I like them, it started so easy and running like a dream though much of this was down to expert fettling, you would wonder why a bike like this was ever put away with so little if anything wrong with it. I bet when it started you had trouble controlling yourself even more so than a newly built engine. Hey, less of the rattly Triumphs!
I'm seriously thinking of buying one of these at the moment, its a 53 model in Wedgewood blue, I would prefer an oily rag as is my 37 Velo MSS500 and 36 NSU OSL500. Its an ok restoration let down by the paintwork for a restored bike is very very amateurish and isn't what I'd like it to be, so a lick of paint on the guards and tank it will be, other than that a really nice bike. I will make my decision soon if the deal is good, hopefully, this weekend or next.
A vid of the bike on the road would be good.
Well done guys.
My dad had the very rare kh500a isdt bike reg no mol5 said it was the best bike ever made genuine 100mph in 1953 the 650s couldn't stay with it
Is the exhaust new? If so, where did you buy it from? I'm in the process of restoring mine and it has high tail exhaust...
The exhaust and silencers are new as, the original ones had rotted away. They came from Armours of Bournemouth.
Shame on you for doing this. You had that motorcycle running on high rev,s for 20 minutes on its first start up in over 57 years without stopping it to check it over. Did you not catch on the engine was cooking when you seen the excessive smoke coming from the engine and the header pipes going brown. You don't deserve that Ariel or any motorcycle . I have a 1952 KH and i wouldn't dream of letting it run for more than 5 minuets without riding it to get the air around it
You dont know what you're taliking about.. The smoke is just new paint burning off the engine. Dont you think that anyone that has the skill to rebuild an entire motorbike, might just know what they're doing. As for the brand new down pipes heating up and starting to blue. Do you even have a bike, where is your proof that you have a clue what you're talking about.
you fucking idiot ha hahhhhhhhhhhha