Beschreibung
Offered for sale is my 1964 Matchless G15CS Desert Racer, sporting a 750cc Norton Atlas engine in a Matchless Frame.
I bought this bike recently but due to recent operation I'm off the bike and won't be able to use it for a considerable time to come. So it has to go!
Some information about this interesting bike...
In November 1963 a batch of 200 Norton 750 hybrids were leaving the Plumstead factory en-route to the American distributor, Berliner. When they arrived at their destination they would be the first delivery of the new 1964 Norton Atlas Scramblers and were the most powerful production desert-racers ever to be produced at that time. The prototype had already been thoroughly tested on the rough at Hawkstone Park by Chris Horsfield. This was the start of a four-year production run for the Atlas powered G. 15 series.
The bike offered for sale is one of those 200 750 Hybrids with a competition frame.
However this bike has a few tricks that have been obviously been developed from the original for desert racing, including the ceriani front end, dunlop rims and a very neat little compartment used for keeping all those special tools and master links!
She starts/ runs/ moves, just needs thrashing as its already deliciously worn in with great patina.
Very cool number plate to go with it, last dated 1974.
A very rare and interesting bike that needs to go to a good home.
A very steep price reduction in order to sell asap to aid another project.
