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G15CS |
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just purchased barn find! What year?
engine G15CS/124311 |
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21 Mar 2010 |
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By GDPR removal 86578
28 Mar 2010
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FJRIGJWWE9R1PIC_RATING:COMMENTS This is a 1968 Matchless G15CS and it was dispatched to Berliner in November 1968. It was sold as a 1969 model year Matchless. This would have been the last batch of G15CS models made and dispatched. It went to New York. One of nearly the last ones made. Great looking bikes with coil ignition, but more of a street scrambler than an out and out comp bike, now the Norton P11’s were winning in the desert and on the flat tracks of North America. One road test is all that have seen in any of the magazines for this year of bike back in the late 1960’s, and that was the N15CS version. Same bike different gas tank badge. They make a great street bike, as it can also be used off road to a limited extent. All the suspension was made more for the road than as an off road scrambler, but you could always try. Much more heavier than a P11 which had that Reynolds 531 tubed frame.
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By Peter Morris
13 Apr 2014
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FJRIGJWWE9R1PIC_RATING:COMMENTS Interesting, I have just purchased a G15CS with engine number G15CS/124319....very close to this bike. Along with the bike came a dating certificate and and a letter from the AJSMOC (UK) stating that the bike left the factory in October 1967 for delivery to US importers JB Matchless Corporation as a 1968 model. Did the factory not issue the bikes in engine frame number order?
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