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by SimonE
Mon Apr 05, 2021 12:36 am
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: XMA 528
Replies: 10
Views: 3751

Re: XMA 528

Hi Johnny, I actually got it from a friend of a friend I think called Norman. He lived in Southend, and used to commute in to London on it. If I remember correctly it passed through the hands of a number of people including my next door neighbour David Webb who also had a very highly tuned Huntmaste...
by SimonE
Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:18 pm
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: XMA 528
Replies: 10
Views: 3751

Re: XMA 528

I searched for your name as well as the reg That’s strange - I can’t remember exactly when it was but the Ariel was my first “big bike” in about 1976/7 and I joined to get access to expertise to help with my rebuild - at the time I lived in Wood Green, North London N22. Again thanks for looking tho...
by SimonE
Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:15 pm
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: XMA 528
Replies: 10
Views: 3751

Re: XMA 528

hi SiomnE sometimes they use the X to mean love or a kiss , or its letters of a company, or football team or a pop group i sold a plate a few years ago with with X s in and he was using the X s to mean love for his other Half ( that very sad ) Just looked at it again and I guess it could be Xmas 28...
by SimonE
Mon Mar 29, 2021 11:39 pm
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: XMA 528
Replies: 10
Views: 3751

Re: XMA 528

It’s a possibility Johnny - however there aren’t many names beginning with X?
by SimonE
Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:21 pm
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: XMA 528
Replies: 10
Views: 3751

Re: XMA 528

Thanks Roger - it should be on the register as I was a member back in the late seventies/early eighties although I guess maybe I didn’t record it at the time - who knows. Afraid I don’t have the engine/frame number - I am guilty of sourcing a new frame when a mate wrote it of for me and being a youn...
by SimonE
Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:08 pm
Forum: Where is it now ? What was it then?
Topic: XMA 528
Replies: 10
Views: 3751

XMA 528

Hi all, Just posting to see if I can trace my old 500 Ariel Red Hunter registration XMA 528. I owned and rebuilt it as a yoof back in the eighties. I then stripped it down when the engine seized and like many people never got round to rebuilding it. I sold it as a rolling project to a guy from up no...