Matchless Scrambler
Built 1966
Resurrected 2016
My 250cc OHV Matchless started life in 1966 as G2 CSR, a roadgoing learner motorcycle and one of the last machines out the factory before it closed.
It's slowly being developed into a take on the Plumstead factory's G2 CS (Competition Scrambles) and is very much an 'oily rag' bike that I use at least every week.
Previous owners had completed some of the work, including removing most of the tinware, fitting knobbly tyres and alloy guards, replacing the seat, and fitting a competition alloy yoke from an earlier 1950s heavyweight to match the heavyweight 1 1/8" teledraulics.
My work so far has included:
It's slowly being developed into a take on the Plumstead factory's G2 CS (Competition Scrambles) and is very much an 'oily rag' bike that I use at least every week.
Previous owners had completed some of the work, including removing most of the tinware, fitting knobbly tyres and alloy guards, replacing the seat, and fitting a competition alloy yoke from an earlier 1950s heavyweight to match the heavyweight 1 1/8" teledraulics.
My work so far has included:
- lots of wiring including a replacement period ammeter from a Sunbeam
- new steering bearings
- new pressed alloy number plate. The plate on the bike when I bought it had two letters the wrong way round.
- upgrading a troublesome Amal Monobloc to a MK1 Concentric carburettor together with a superior in-line fuel filter
- replacement 12v coil and condenser
- Sammy Miller super wide classic trials handlebar and controls
- rebuilt front teledraulics
- front brake anchor bolt thread re-cut
- new Betor MX shocks for the rear suspension, set up to G2 CS spec.
- replaced valves and stems and rebuilt top end
- fabricating an enamel gearbox cover
- fabricating an enamel plate to mount speedo and ammeter onto the alloy yoke
- fabricating enamel sidecovers in steel with cutout for air-filter.