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) …
If you’ve been reading the previous posts of this blog you will hopefully have noticed that I am very keen to keep my Matchless as original as possible during it’s so-called ‘restoration’. However, there are a few concessions that I have made to modern technology which I think are important to make the bike usable on a daily basis. …
So with the rewiring now complete, it was time to get a new 6 volt battery for the bike. The only problem was that the shop that the mechanic had bought such batteries from in the past had now stopped stocking 6 volt models. A search of lots of battery shops across the revealed the same story in each …
So with the engine now running the wheels fitted, it was now time to take the bike to the local auto-electricians. The old electrics were in a fairly bad state so I decided to have the bike completely rewired to (hopefully!) ensure reliability later on. The dynamo and ignition systems had already been serviced whilst the engine was being …