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There’s a new swingarm, subframe assembly and engine cradle, with extra focus on engine protection. Designer Owen likes to get his hands on the power tools, so he fabbed up most of the prototype himself, in CCM’s workshop. This prototype is not a half-hearted styling exercise: very little componentry is carried over from the current range, aside from the front of the frame and the engine. And I think one of the CCM advisors still has a poster of Gaston Rahier on his bedroom wall!” “Most of our current design and development team ride or race motocross or enduro. That was enough to get the Bolton-based brains trust thinking. “They’ve been asking us to revisit our previous GP450 model and develop another lightweight single.” “Lots of our customers also own heavier, touring-focused adventure bikes,” Scott tells us. It’s won grass track events at the Malle Mile, and since it weighs a mere 145 kg, it’s perfect for what Brits call ‘green laning.’īut there’s always room for something more hardcore. “At the same time, we wanted to investigate longer suspension travel, and were curious to see how far we could credibly go.”ĭespite only having 130 mm (5.1 inches) of travel, CCM’s current Maverick scrambler is quite capable off-road. “Our lead designer, Owen, wanted to do something radically different with the Spitfire platform, based around our scrambling twin-shock heritage.” “It’s a bit of a melting pot concept,” says Scott Lanzi, CCM’s product director. And the company wants to know if you think they should put it into production. With sandy yellow paint worthy of a Camel Trophy Land Rover, it looks like nothing else in the CCM line-up. And today’s road-going Spitfire model is something of a cult success, powered by a feisty 62 hp 601 cc single based on a Husqvarna design.ĬCM brought this ADV bike concept to the Malle Mile, and it attracted a lot of attention. They’ve been going since 1971, when Alan Clews fired up Clews Competition Machines in Lancashire. If there was an award for tenacity in the motorcycling world, the British company CCM would win it.