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I wonder how many people know that the last bike to carry the Matchless badge was a two-stroke. When I was at N-V, we did four bikes, a trail-bike version of our AJS Stormer, for the Royal Air Force Motorsports Association to use in the 1968 International Six-Days Trial.
Three of them were Starmaker 250-powered and were registered as AJS machines. The fourth was a version with the 345 cc Starmaker engine, and it was registered as a Matchless. As far as I remeber, the RAFMSA team didn't do that well and no-one realised how unique that "Matchless" was.
I'd emigrated to the US before that event and I have no idea what happened to thos four bikes. We made up special exhaust systems for them, with a spark arrester at the tail-pipe.
I'd be interested if anyone knows what happened to thos bikes. I'd love to gethold of one of them, particularly the Matchless.
Three of them were Starmaker 250-powered and were registered as AJS machines. The fourth was a version with the 345 cc Starmaker engine, and it was registered as a Matchless. As far as I remeber, the RAFMSA team didn't do that well and no-one realised how unique that "Matchless" was.
I'd emigrated to the US before that event and I have no idea what happened to thos four bikes. We made up special exhaust systems for them, with a spark arrester at the tail-pipe.
I'd be interested if anyone knows what happened to thos bikes. I'd love to gethold of one of them, particularly the Matchless.