If you want to go fast....

[Ariel Badger]

Do not buy a mid 1930s Ariel.
However I am rather pleased as I got the Badger over the standing quarter at the Wroughton Speed Trials at 15.42 seconds with a terminal speed of 79.5 mph, my personal best on that bike. Wroughton is not flat and has about an 8 foot climb and the weather was hot and humid so I am looking for a 14.5 and 85mph next month at Brighton.
These speeds are not challenging in comparison with modern bikes like Bussas but on a single cylinder machine that many say should be in a museum or scrapheap I think it is a half decent achievement. She returned 7mpg on the day.
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[Rob W]

Quality.


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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Good work that Badger. ....looks like you've worked quite hard judging by your beaming face.

Keep it up.
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[Ariel Badger]

Thanks people, Wroghton has been my nemesis in the past and I have lost two engines there due to a radical camshaft I had commissioned that broke valves and cam followers if over reved. I dropped back to the 1930 racing cam and she is going like a train and took six runs with no problems. I think I can get her sub 14 next year.
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[stinkwheel]

Beats my enfield into a cocked hat.

19.86s @ 64mph over 1/4 mile. That's with a tuned head BUT it does now need a bigger carb to take advantage of it.

You never know. Might hit 70mph next time
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[Shaft]

As a relative n00b and not knowing the history of the bike, a little context would be interesting; how quickly would it do a standing 1/4 if it was standard?
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[Lone-Wolf]

[Kradmelder]

sorry to say bra, I reach that on gravel

But now with maturity and kids and a heifer for an x, I keep speeds down to 100 kmh of road. 60 mph.

But on brain dead tar i still do 160 kmh+ . If it wasnt for knobbies would go faster, but any idiot can ride tar.

Im not about to remove knobblies to go faster on tar like some crotch jockey. Let him ride gravel and see how far till he eats dirt

A good mate of mine who used to open the taps on a KTM 180 kmh+ on gravel, just settled down (fark about time after being dragged out of a burning casspir), and sid how nice it is to ride at under 100 and enjoy the scenery. we had brekkie today... eish the old matjies...

I always refused to ride with him, but now may be OK. I prefer distance and secenery to speed.

but with a 237 kmh top speed still on my GPS some may say Im lying
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[Quornholio]

[Kradmelder]

[Shaft]

[Kradmelder]

[Shaft]

[Kradmelder]

[Shaft]

[Kradmelder]

actually instead of shafting yourself, go and press kharma. Mastrubation. Please yourself.
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[Kradmelder]

[Frost]

who the fuck even are you? You've just appeared on here bragging about shit and being racist at every opportunity and telling everyone to shut up while you spout irrelevant crap. I'd say you were a troll but no troll would be so blatant. Have you set up another account warped?

[Kradmelder]

[Deckx]

exhaust & stickers looks a little out of place on a 1930s bike...strange looking bike

[h00dwink]

[Slacker24seve...]

[hazza]

https://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff501/harrybarfield/gravel.jpg

It's all about the gravel Yo.
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[nowhere.elysium]

Nicely done, Wali. The Badger's looking pretty beastly these days, too

Krad - wind it in. You're still new here, and giving it the big'un at people who've been here a lot longer than you is not the way to impress people. Both Frost and Shaft are a lot more well-regarded than you, despite the karma rating that you've somehow accrued.
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[chris-red]

Krad read this then shut up

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=145783
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