British Street Fighter

CCM stands for 'Clews Competition Machines'. This company has been producing high-performance motorcycles, mostly off-roaders, in Bolton since 1971. Because it is a very small manufacturer (it turns out about seven bikes a week), its products have always had a unique feel and attract the attention of the world’s most informed and passionate riders.

Maintaining CCM’s heritage as one of Britain's most important motorcycle manufacturers, Alan Clew (the original owner and founder) and his sons regained control of the famous CCM factory in 2006 and, with this, designed a new class of motorcycle. The limited-edition T53s model (only 120 hand-built units were made available) received applause across the globe and was the winner of the highly competitive 2006 British Short Track series.

This bike performs even better than it looks. With its colossal, fully adjustable 48mm White Power suspension units, there’s little the CCM FT35s can’t handle. It’s stable, very fast, light and controlled.

The T35s is essentially a power band cloaked in a limited-edition piece of only-just-road-legal, combustion technology. The bike's design takes inspiration from the flat-track machines that race the half-mile and mile-long dirt ovals in the United States of America. Anyone who's seen the film ‘On Any Sunday’ will know what flat-tracking's about. If you haven't, shame on you. Until you’ve seen it, look at flat-track as speedway but with more danger and pain. Oh, and did I mention the wheelies? A highly refined piece of madness, the CCM T35s reminds you of why the British did so well in Spitfires.