1955 Ariel HS5 Special
Trials special

Registration No: 524 YUF
Frame No: DUS 571
Engine No: LK570
CC: 500
MOT: Exempt

• Engine rebuild was undertaken in 2018
• Ariel Owners Club Dating Certificate
• Canterbury ISDT sidecar, set up by Watsonian

An Ariel HS5 was the owner’s boyhood dream, but by the time he found one he could afford in 1999, he had lost his right leg. Nevertheless, persistance counts and the addition of a Canterbury ISDT sidecar provided the prefect idea. Amongst the modifications required were a left foot gearchange. Although not an original HS5, ‘524 YUF’ was registered for the road by the DVLA in May of 2012 and comes with an Ariel Owners Club Dating Certificate. The frame is from a 1955 road machine that had been restamped with a scrambler-type number (not an uncommon occurrence). The gearbox is from January 1959, petrol tank, air cleaner and oil tank are all HS5.

Set up by Watsonian, the outfit was mainly used at the time on North Cotswold VMCC Runs, it was also ridden in a couple of Irish Rallies and Welsh Re-enactment 6-day ISDT weekends, where rider and machine were able to manage the somewhat challenging terrain. A complete engine rebuild was undertaken in 2018 and it has since proved to be an easy one-legged starter and capable of matching the usual solos on the road. Regrettably, the pandemic and advancing arthritis means that the owner has had to consign his riding to being a thing of the past.

For more information, please contact:
Mike Davis
mike.davis@handh.co.uk
07718 584217