Serious fun

When it began production in 2014, the Ace V-four was the first new motorcycle from Ariel for over 50 years, since the Birmingham factory ceased production in 1967, and it reinforced Ariel’s tradition, epitomised by the Square Four, of stepping outside the box in motorcycle design.

But in fact, Ariel had already made its comeback 16 years earlier with the 1999 debut of the Ariel