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Waterways Saleroom, Dutch Riverside, Old Goole
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1953 Ariel HT5, 500 cc For Sale by Auction
Registration number KSK 606 (see text).
Frame number XG11842.
Engine number H12702.
By the mid-1950s the swinging-arm frame's superiority had begun to be recognised in the trials world, overturning the conventional view that a rigid frame gave better grip. Ariel was one of the last manufacturers to introduce a trials frame with rear suspension, the prototype of what would become the HT5 first appearing at the 1955 Scottish Six Days event with production proper commencing in September of that year. Little was achieved by the works HT5s in their first season but the arrival of Ron Langston for 1956 brought with it the success Ariel had been seeking, their new signing winning the Cotswold and Greensmith trials. For the next few seasons the HT5 was the class of the field. Arguably the most capable of the 'heavyweight' trials irons, the HT5 disappeared along with the other Ariel four-strokes in 1959 after only 450-or-so had been made, though Sammy Miller's famous and much modified example - 'GOV 132' - would continue winning at the highest level well into the 1960s. Miller built 'GOV 132' when he was a factory rider for the Ariel motorcycle company in Selly Oak, Birmingham and he was employed in the Ariel competition shop. The standard 500cc Ariel trials motorcycle was based upon the single-cylinder overhead-valve 500cc 'Red Hunter'.
KSK was owned by Nigel Braddock of Stockport in 1992 and he sold it to our vendor in 2002 as his last trials machine, having competed in pre '65 and six day events for many years. He bought and assembled the John Bartram TG 45 thin wall light weight frame with a B. T. H. racing mag and original HT engine with Rickman hubs on Akront alloy rims. He rode it in a couple of local events but knee problems has meant that it was soon parked up in his shed and has remained there ever since. It will need recommissioning.
Sold with the V5, a 2005 MOT, various spares and the 2002 advert.
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