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I'm pleased that things are now working as they should and that I was able to help.

I don't know about that particular oil but I believe that most 'car' oils contain friction-reducing additives which are bad news for a clutch. This is one reason given for using only the approved oils in modern motorcycle engines as the engine oil almost always lubricates the primary drive and gearb...

There is a copy of the Motor Cycle for October 25th 1928 road test of the Colt
available in the Members Only Document Repository in the cub's website.

It's technically a Black Ariel so you want the Black Ariel Spares Scheme.

If you can provide some dimensions I'll look in my box of NOS but unidentified valves.

Did Ariel provide replacement frames already numbered or were they left blank?

Years ago I had a new postwar rigid frame which I passed on to Draganfly when they were still in
London and as far as I remember this frame was not numbered but I'm not sure now.

The BSA yokes not only have the stanchions closer together than the Ariel half-sided yokes they also somewhat 'shorter' and won't fit into an Ariel frame. My understanding is that later, full-width Ariel forks have the same stanchion spacing as the BSA. This is speculation on my part as none of my A...

Somewhere I have a photo of Ron Langston on what is captioned as an HT3 with the Ariel half-sided front hub and my HT5 from 1957 also has an Ariel half-sided front hub. It was a production bike being sold in Leeds but it does have BSA yolks and the hub has been narrowed to make it fit, something I d...

One point in the BSA Otter webpage which puzzled me was the statement that the HT3 had a BSA 7" half-sided hub rather than the Ariel 7" full-width alloy hub of the HT5 and the roadsters. The one I knew in Oxfordshire I'm sure had the Ariel brake and all of the contemporary photos I've seen...