Ariel Owners Motorcycle Club

My bike awaiting it's restoration. Looks reasonable but could be better inside and out
Whatever the condition, the Red Hunter has to be one of the "Most Elegant Singles" (Bob Currie quote)

Looks lovely!

Thanks Simon. I would say though that whoever did the the original refurb or restoration did it in a way that wasn't that brilliant. I'm sorting out the basics at the moment and time permitting I would like to go over the whole bike again starting from scratch. Obviously having the bike in a pretty good state makes the whole job so much easier. The only trouble is that I have 3x other bikes that require entire restorations to do first and they will take a couple of years. The trouble with humans is that they don't live long enough to do everything you want to do and at very very best, I reckon I have only 10-15 years left, so maybe I would be wasting my time doing up this VH. I'll just have to get used to it as it is but, and this is more of a criticism of myself and NOT a boast, I'm an irritating perfectionist and find myself worrying about tiny details and imperfections, and as said, life is too short to be like that...From what I've seen on your superb blog site, I reckon you are a perfectionist too