Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: spooky on May 05, 2017, 08:39:23 PM
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my HD350 having gone i ended up with a TLR200 and a Francis Barnett.. both should be going on monday and the replacement options as of just now are ....
1954 Matchless g3l or a 1974 Honda CB450, couldn`t be much different, which would you go for ?
still got both my gn`s though, they stay
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CB450, I guess that would be obvious though.
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I'd go for the Matchless, but I havnt a clue why :-\
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Yarp....It's the Matchbox for me ;)
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just been to see the matchless, if all goes to plan i will have that, then there is a local chap who will fit an electric start for a very reasonable price, photo soon...
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1954 (same as me)
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j360/roudeleiw-uk/g3l1_zpsyqnysxme.jpg) (http://s1081.photobucket.com/user/roudeleiw-uk/media/g3l1_zpsyqnysxme.jpg.html)
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I'm liking that Mr Spooky sir, 8)
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this chair will be perfect for sitting down and tinkering with the bike....
just have to figure out how to get it out of the museum
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j360/roudeleiw-uk/unnamed%207_zpsiqb6blzi.jpg) (http://s1081.photobucket.com/user/roudeleiw-uk/media/unnamed%207_zpsiqb6blzi.jpg.html)
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;D ;D ;D ;D....
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I somehow thought you would go for the Matchless, good luck with that.
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Yes Rufus, health to use, and good luck with one of AMCs finest. Rossco500 on here has one too.
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picked it up tonight, it`s a belter, first time i have ridden a matchless since 1976..lots of levers though, anyone got a decent silencer for one ? mines painted..
(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j360/roudeleiw-uk/IMG_20170509_184704_zpshnp6yxnr.jpg) (http://s1081.photobucket.com/user/roudeleiw-uk/media/IMG_20170509_184704_zpshnp6yxnr.jpg.html)
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Very, very nice! ;D ;D
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I bought one of these (G80S) ( i think) circa 1980 in bits as a project from a neighbour who was going to help me put it back together.I can't remember what year it was -definitely '50's though-and i can't remember what i paid-maybe £200?Never did get it finished.Being mainly into Jap bikes at the time and having not much knowledge or mechanical ability it was always going to be a struggle.I recall getting the oil tank blasted and painted but the shot got in the tank so that would have ruined the engine!I sold it on-can't remember how much for in about 82-84 -still as a project.I also remember leaving one of the huge newly powder coated mudguards on the roof of my Citroen Dyane upon picking it up from a bike shop in Birmingham.Fortunately i was able to rescue it before it fell off and ruined the paintwork!Oh happy days!
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Yes, cause that's an AJS silencer, he said tightening the drawstring on the hood of his ANORAK :-\
I will speak with Rossco500, as we have a pair of silencers in chrome, but also of the AJS pattern, but they aren't in fantastic condition ;)
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so silencer isnt matchless ? what do they look like i wonder, must have a look at some pics, i don`t want a really shiny one just one that isnt painted
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Matchless ones are like stubby megaphones. At least, they are on the twins, which is my current anorak subject, due to an ongoing, and possibly regretful episode in old Brit ownership . :-\
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Aye Spooky,
Dinnae try and silence the old bopper, they work best with the rudimentary baffle (two perforated tube 'baffles' with no wadding), sound a treat and run very sweetly. They are "Proper" thumpers along with other long stroke singles and will plonk away happily if set up correctly. The silencer for the AJS and Matchy singles is the same as you have fitted in your posted image and not the megga type found on the twins, which again was standard to both marques. This is badge engineering at its best, unless you want to get really anal! :-X
My old '53 AJS 18S was doing 1,000 miles a month up and down the M1- M6 between Hertfordshire and Cumbria when I was at college. I have an image somewhere! ;) Required a fair bit of maintanence and if anybody knows where OPO 533 is these days, nice to have a chin wag with the current owner. ::)
Your best bet for spares is to get in touch with the AJS & Matchless Owners Club and use their spare parts scheme for most parts, via the link below.
Link: Jampot (http://www.jampot.com/)
However, the owners club do not appear to stock exhausts or silencers! ??? So here is a link to an Austrian company displaying a good image of the silencer for the 'Heavyweight 350 single 1954 -1961'.
Link: Heavyweight_350_single_1954 -1961_silencer (http://www.vintage-motorcycle.com/imageviewer.php?pid=3897)
"Happy Hamrax Motors" of Ladbroke Grove, London are sadly no more. Their help in supplying me with spares in Glen Affric, 35 miles west of Inverness, when I lived in a bothy there was invaluable. This included repairing the forks after I missed a transmission pole by 6" on a foggy night and removed 5 oak stobbs with my foot between them and the foot rest, before clearing the fence and barrel rolling into a field of neeps. It is all very clear 42 years later! ::) The despatch and delivery of the forks involved the Highland Omnibus Company; British Rail and their "Red Star Parcels" service. Hamrax was "The" place for AMC spares in the late '60's early '70's. Don and Butch/Chopper were a curmudgeonly pair, the craic was full of expletives, fag smoke and magical cameos of their lives and customers.
This link below sums up Hamrax really well and the gentrificatication of Ladbroke Grove appears to be well under way, from the squats and day to day living of these areas in the late '60's early '70's.
Link: "Happy_Hamrax" (https://northkensingtonhistories.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/workplaces-in-kensal-new-town/)
'Twas another world! ::)
My regards, Bill
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Currently for parts, and info, the places to go, are, AMC Spares, Andrews Engineering, and the AMOC spares scheme ;)