I had one when I was a kid, half a century ago and I am still here.

You guys are killing it. Production value is on point, keep it up! Awesome bike, thanks for introducing me to this Odd Beast.

Man that is a freaking art 👀 classic elegant beauty 🤗❤️

Nice. Good description of the noise, I never imagined it would sound like that.

Edward Turner designed the Triumph Speed twin ( 500cc ) around 1937 which was a wonderful smooth machine before he used the same technology to create this work of art.

The Square Four uses a special Solex Carb designed only for this bike..

The general opinion of people that have never owned a Square Four, is that the rear cylinders overheat. And why be surprised that a 1000cc bike will do over 100. The 500 single does 90

@RevivalCycles

3 жыл бұрын

I can't say that anyone at the shop has owned one but we've spent a lot of time wrenching on half a dozen of them. I'm no Ariel expert myself and I expect that you're going to set me straight if I'm wrong, but my understanding has always been that overheating could be an issue with the earliest generations due to shared exhaust pipe design. The rear cylinder exhaust would heat soak the heads before merging with the front cylinder exhaust. In the later Gens this was solved by redesigning the manifold to route the rear exhaust out through it's own pipe. Maybe that's just legend that's developed over the years but it's hard to imagine why you'd revise the design to something more complicated/expensive if the original was a non issue.

My dad had 1 of these before I was born he was telling me about it years ago he got trapped between 2 buses and they were going opposite directions and he got flipped of it and broke both ankles.

what year of Ariel Square Four would be your recommendation?

Shame about the tank (I think..) Love the original Ariel tanks, and seats too. Someone will say it's an Ariel tank that belongs to it. Or will they?

@gregorysnyder6423

3 жыл бұрын

Wrong tank and carb and tank badge.

@gregorysnyder6423

3 жыл бұрын

It does look good.

@ultimobile

2 жыл бұрын

It's an Ariel tank but I would think from 1948 or earlier - I had a 1950 Ariel which had that shape tank with a single fuel cap on top - the 3 circle panel on top was more likely 1948 or earlier - but I dunno if they sold that shape to suit the US market

@martinda7446

2 жыл бұрын

@@ultimobile Thanks Ultimobile. Cool info.

When will be a first "AaaaannDiiiii" video about shaping metal? I miss the technical stuff

I can send you the address where you can find the original american motorcycle magazine write up on the square four in pdf

@RevivalCycles

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see that!

Who’d a thunk....speaker wire is made for speakers! Drop the knowledge!

@MrKdr500

5 жыл бұрын

"thunk" who'd would have thought that was a word?

@georgeparazoo4395

4 жыл бұрын

I road one in 1960what a thrill was about 15

THE REAR CYLINDERS ALWAYS Overheated ITS A Desighn FLAW g