HAPPY HORSEPLAY

Ariel were at the top of their game in the 1930s with the dream team of Val Page on engineering and Edward Turner on styling. Page the quiet gentleman joined Ariel from JAP in 1925 to redesign and modernise the Ariel range for 1926, saving the company in the process. The confident, sharp-dressed Turner joined Ariel in 1929 with his designs for a Square Four.

Chalk and cheese they may have been, but together they helped to shape the identity of this most glamourous decade of motorcycling. Val Page was responsible for developing some of the fastest engines of the 1920s used by the record-breaking superstars of the time, especially for tuners of Brough Superiors. Edward Turner went on to create the Triumph Speed Twin and if you look at an early one it looks very similar in style to a Red Hunter.

While the Square Four may have been the most exotic and powerful horse in the Ariel stable, it was the Red Hunter which was bought enthusiastically by the public and sportsmen alike. Go competition riding or touring on the weekend