The rear light unit fitted to my Matchless G3LS when I bought it back in India was one of the common Lucas 564 types found on so many Royal Enfield’s and the like. However, if the 1951 Matchless part book is to be believed, the ‘correct’ rear light for my year of bike is actually …
Searching through some folders on my computer recently I came across some photos I took when I was out on my last ride in India before my Matchless was crated up for shipping. The photo’s took me back to some happy memories of Hyderabad and India. I think this was a really great last ride …
I eventually got around to fitting my prototype LED rear light board for Lucas 564 rear lights to my Matchless over the weekend. It has sat on the side for the last few weeks after testing, so I thought it was about time I got it fitted within the Lucas lamp unit to see how …
I was asked how the LED rear light board I’ve designed and made for the Lucas 564 rear lamp of my Matchless motorbike compared with a standard 21/5W filament bulb. I knew from the development work I’d done over the last couple of months that it was bright, but I needed to see how bright …
I’ve been working on a project to design and produce an LED light unit for the Lucas 564 rear lamp of my Matchless motorbike for the past month or two. I now have a working prototype which I’m quite happy with, so thought I’d share some photo’s of it with you. The reason behind this …
With my bike off the road and largely in pieces whilst the dynamo and magneto were away for reconditioning, it also seemed like a good opportunity to sort out my rather worn clutch basket that I mentioned in a previous post. The ‘B52’ type clutch basket fitted to my 1951 ‘CP’ gearbox was quite heavily …
In order to be able to remove the dynamo from my Matchless G3LS to send it for servicing, I had also had to remove the timing chain cover from the engine. One of the timing cams came out of the engine, still attached to the timing cover, and so the cams would need to be …
My bike has been off the road for the last month or so whilst the Lucas ‘N1’ magneto and ‘E3NL’ dynamo were back in the UK being reconditioned. The magneto had started to fail intermittently a few weeks before and then lost it’s spark completely, and the output from the dynamo seemed to be flickering …
I picked up my bike from the mechanic yesterday. It had been in for about 6 weeks now so it’s been a long time since I was last out on the road! The main jobs that needed to be done were that the front suspension forks needed to be rebuilt (the seals were leaking oil) …
I went to collect my G3LS bike from the mechanics yesterday following various work replacing the valves, guides and springs as I mentioned in my previous post here. On the test ride I was having some problems with the carb which caused the engine to cut out a few times, but then the problem got …