G15-CS Survivor

Looks just like my Matchless although yours is in a lot nicer shape. My title says mine is a 1965 but the numbers show a 1964 108*** . The seat has a grabrail at the back looks like it was made for the bike but I've never seen another CS with one like it.

Mark

Thanks, Blu--would love to see some photos of yours, too!

Mine used to have a big cargo rack on back, but no grab rail...I have some photos of it mounted in the 70s and I have one or two of the racks in the shed many hundreds of miles from here.

I've been debating a repaint and/or things like polishing the cases and engine, but for now, I'm going to keep it as-is and just get it running nicely. If/when I ever do a real restoration on it, it'll get factory-like paint, cleaned/polished everything, some rims without peeling chrome, etc.

One thing I might do, though, is replace the gas cap because the peeling chrome there is really annoying me for some reason. But in general, I don't take great care with things like paint and polish, so I'll embrace the well-used look happily.

Nothing wrong with the way it looks now its a nice looking bike. My G 15 is buried in the corner of the garage it hasn't run in years probably when I first bought it which would have been in 1993. It sure sounded nice with those straight pipes. I also have a G 15 CSR I bought a few years back but its a basketcase its missing the fenders and seat and a few odds & ends but I suppose its mostly there and its without a title I'm thinking its a 65 or 66. The engine cases have been welded probably put a rod through the case I mean who ever heard of a Matchless doing that.

Mark

Sitting a little prettier now and running nicely, now timed to 28 degrees with cylinders behaving more or less identically. (LH had been idling poorly...)

Proper timing cover, working clocks, tach drive capped with epoxy on both covers and running fine so far, new fuel plumbing and petcocks (now with reserve!), and cylinders running evenly.

Pilot jets seem to be a shade too lean (mix screws all the way in right now) so I'll be replacing with 25s shortly to see if that helps.

Front brake cable is too long and I have the appropriate replacement, but the threads on the "socket/abutment" that hold the adjuster to the plate seem mashed down, so I'll need to chase those or replace.

I need to dig into the (brand-new, repop) speedo drive and find out why it's not engaging the cable correctly; traced my bouncing speedo to the interface between drive and cable.

I kinda wanted a CSR from the moment I saw one while researching an N15 restoration.

Very nice bike, Mick!

Just caught up with this. What a great looking bike and a rare sight in these parts! Great find. I would also have been sold with those first shots!

Thanks, guys...what means even more to me than the bike itself is the original owner selected me as not just a buyer, but the caretaker of a machine that meant a lot to him. I'm carrying it on into the future for him, and my daughter will take it on for me when I'm no longer able...

Oh, and I got the speedometer drive working by frankensteining in the EMGO ring gear to the original Smiths unit. Kind of satisfying to actually have working gauges.

Front brake cable turns out to have the wrong thread in the adjuster; it's not that the threads in the brake plate are damaged. Gotta decide which to change, the cable or the little "abutment" stud into which the brake adjuster screws.