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Ariel Ace

Interesting look. How many miles per gallon?
 
35K CND to start? little spendy no? I'll wait to Massey Ferguson to style one up, There snowmobiles were killer
 
You can style one up all on your own when purchasing:

"According to Ariel, the two are examples of many possible configurations of the new model and each one built will be bespoke."
 
The churnalism here is fiendishly confusing. Ariel Motors has more or less nothing to do with Ariel Motorcycles, yet one is clearly banking on the history of the other.

It's not clear to me who actually owns the rights to the Ariel name. It could be Ariel Motors, or "BSA-Regal", or even present day Triumph... or some unnamed third party.

Anyway, that frame actually looks cool. I'm not seeing a whole lot of fuel storage anywhere, but I guess the potential owners wouldn't care. Why are forks like that a bad idea again? They look so simple
 
They say it's a billet frame, which makes no sense to me. Wouldn't it cost more than $35G just for the massive block and all the machining it would take to whittle it down to a bare frame? And it would probably still be heavier than an cast frame.

Those forks add a lot of weight and cost, but they offer a better ride/handling compromise. So, less optimal for sport bikes but good for tourers and such.
 
fastar1 said:
They say it's a billet frame, which makes no sense to me. Wouldn't it cost more than $35G just for the massive block and all the machining it would take to whittle it down to a bare frame? And it would probably still be heavier than an cast frame.
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They didn't billet the whole thing out of a single block, I can see welds on the frame. Won't be the lightest frame around but it could still be reasonable.

fastar1 said:
Those forks add a lot of weight and cost, but they offer a better ride/handling compromise. So, less optimal for sport bikes but good for tourers and such.
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There's gotta be more to it than that, otherwise tourers would actually use it today
 
A little too expensive for most of us who are not independently wealthy but £20000 for a super low volume bespoke built bike is pretty reasonable I think.
 
TwistedKestrel said:
They didn't billet the whole thing out of a single block, I can see welds on the frame. Won't be the lightest frame around but it could still be reasonable.

There's gotta be more to it than that, otherwise tourers would actually use it today
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Yeah, I guess the bikes are really showpieces so from that perspective the frame makes more sense.

BMW uses a double wishbone front suspension like that on their K series. I seem to remember hearing of other manufacturers using it too but I can't remember. I don't know why there's so few of them out there. But BMW only went with this system 10 years ago, so it's still pretty new to the industry and it still has some tradeoffs.
 
fastar1 said:
Yeah, I guess the bikes are really showpieces so from that perspective the frame makes more sense.

BMW uses a double wishbone front suspension like that on their K series. I seem to remember hearing of other manufacturers using it too but I can't remember. I don't know why there's so few of them out there. But BMW only went with this system 10 years ago, so it's still pretty new to the industry and it still has some tradeoffs.
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The Hossack fork that BMW uses now is way more sophisticated than this. And the reason that they only went with it 10 years ago is because that's when the patent expired (supposedly, not sure if/when it was actually patented)
 
Two50noob said:
Three hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene
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