December 24, 200619 yr Author Hi guys . Thanks for the intrest on this subject,just proves there is still a lot of knowledge on these old bikes out there . If we keep up the intrest more bikes will get looked after as they should be, and more will get restored to there former glory. Its our history we are looking after. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. Charlie. Edited December 26, 200619 yr by charlie prescott
January 2, 200719 yr Author Hi Guys. Hi Big"J". Thanks for putting me right again. We found it eventually then. Did it still have the Reynolds forks fitted? Ariel 332 EOK, is still on the DVLA site, First registration 21/09/1961. Date of liability.01/07/1979. So she could still be about. Happy New Year Charlie. Edited January 2, 200719 yr by charlie prescott
January 5, 200719 yr Author Hi Guys. September 61, Bo, That's what it says on the site. I bet the bike is sat in the back of someone's shed covered in dust and Cob web's Big "j" ,DVLA Know the last owner in 1979, We must try and find her Guys. Colour is stated as Red so may be in origanal build. Regards Charlie.
January 7, 200719 yr This is what the man himself told me at least 20 years ago. GUV 132 was loaned to the Beaulieu motor museum but a few years later when he started his own collection he asked for it back. Beaulieu told him that as far as they were concerned he had donated the bike to the national motor museum and it now belonged to them. So Sammy obviuosly disappointed built a replica of his own bike for his own Museum. So there were 2 GUV 132's at that time. Twenty Years down the line there could be several more but only one person knows the original.
February 27, 200719 yr Hi, I notice there was mention of GOV 130 on this forum. I do have a rather poor quality picture of the bike with the late Phil Mellers aboard. This picture must have been about 1954, as I first met Phil in 1958, and I'm sure he was riding a 500T Norton at that time, and then he was on a BSA Gold Star Trials soon after that. To see the picture, go to http://www.bobjohns.coastinternet.ca/ariel/philmellers.jpg If you go to http://www.bobjohns.coastinternet.ca/ariel and scroll down the page, you'll also see a picture of a rigid-framed GOV 132 ridden by Dick Bradley, in 1954. A close look at the picture shows that the "2" on the number plate appears to be in fresher paint than the rest of the number, which indicates to me that the works Ariel bikes and their number plates were quite interchangeable. Bob J
March 8, 201016 yr Author Hi Guy's I was going to post the lot but here is the link http://www.trials.com.au/content/index.php...t&Itemid=38 Have a look . Regards Charlie.
November 3, 201114 yr Author Hi Guy's. I was just reading through some of the paperwork we got with some of our bikes. and have just found out that "Gov 132" was rebuilt at the same time in the same building alongside one of the Ariels we now are proud to own. They were both rebuilt by that dion of "pre 65" motorcycles , ( in fact it was him that coined the fraze) so we have him to blame. Deryk Wylde. I must say that he did a brilliant job restoring our bike to the same specification as when it left the factory with the correct transfers etc. Thinking now, that we are some years down the line, to when people started remembering where there roots were, and showed respect to the Classic Trials machines of the past, by rebuilding them to there former Glory. Should we now not make more of an effort in keeping these machines alive by doing the same, and returning more of the British Trials bikes of the past to there former "Glory"???? :icon_salut: Regards Charlie. PS, did we ever find the True GOV132???
December 7, 201312 yr Author Hi Guy's You know how history comes around ! Well I have had contact from Deryk, and have had to read this thread right through again. I now find out I own the camshaft from GOV132, Well have now had it confirmed, It will be going into my GOV lookalike next year. Hope it does what it says on the tin? Thanks Deryk. Regards Charlie www.bsaotter.com
December 12, 201312 yr Author Hi Guy's Hi Pro Sport. I think this is the bike that Sam rode up until he gave up trials riding > he once won the Pre 65 Scottish on this bike? and used to ride it in the Sammy Miller Championship rounds a few years back He had the bits to build a bike like this in his catalog at one time, before he sold the spares business . Regards Charlie www.bsaotter.com
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