Bit off topic, but , I can remember in the mid-sixties getting hold of a pair of Aerial Arrow / Leader exhaust pipes, knocking the innards out, putting a kink into the front of them to give it a lift, and painting them matt black and fitting them to my Norton 600 , sounded great, but what a racket...
The sound reminds me of a Jawa 350 twin paraffin pisser ,I once had the misfortune to own & few decades ago . The pressed steel forks on that Arrow look like a big version of the ones found on the old Honda cubs ,that rise up when the front brake is applied . It’s not exactly very pleasing on the eye ,no wonder people wanted Suzukis, Yamahas & MZ ‘s .
The arrow was readily tunable for proddy racing, I had a friend that had one and he had gone the whole hog, packed crankcases and a much higher compression, it easily did 100mph , but very fragile, handling was pretty good but they were very low and you had to lift the expansion chambers up higher so as not to scrape them! sounded nice as well, pity they weren't developed more.
My first bike was the Ariel leader.... same bike just more fairing.....15 years old and ready to rule the world...71 now and still riding
Bit off topic, but , I can remember in the mid-sixties getting hold of a pair of Aerial Arrow / Leader exhaust pipes, knocking the innards out, putting a kink into the front of them to give it a lift, and painting them matt black and fitting them to my Norton 600 , sounded great, but what a racket...
Nice Arrow with standard silencers, sounds lovely. A much underrated bike.
And as someone who commented the last time you had this bike on, it does indeed sound very much like a Suzuki, it seemed to run better this time.
That runs very well. Previous owner has set it up👌
The sound reminds me of a Jawa 350 twin paraffin pisser ,I once had the misfortune to own & few decades ago . The pressed steel forks on that Arrow look like a big version of the ones found on the old Honda cubs ,that rise up when the front brake is applied . It’s not exactly very pleasing on the eye ,no wonder people wanted Suzukis, Yamahas & MZ ‘s .
Now I know where my Suzuki got the sound
Nice machine !
The arrow was readily tunable for proddy racing, I had a friend that had one and he had gone the whole hog, packed crankcases and a much higher compression, it easily did 100mph , but very fragile, handling was pretty good but they were very low and you had to lift the expansion chambers up higher so as not to scrape them! sounded nice as well, pity they weren't developed more.
Great bike ( bikes) but what as Ariel thinking by putting the fuel filler beside live battery terminals 😂
No worse than modern bikes with fuel injection having live terminals in the fuel tank