Founded by Alan Clews in 1971 in Blackburn, England.
He built the first CCM motorcycle in his garage.
CCM mostly make competition motocross, trail and supermoto bikes.
For most of the 1980s Armstrong-CCM was producing about 3,500 trails and motocross bikes, as well as the military off-road machines.
Electric start models were built for the Jordanian and Canadian armed forces.
In 1983, the Canadian company Bombardier Recreational Products licensed the brand and outsourced development and production of the Can-Am motorcycles to Armstrong-CCM who produced Can-Am’s until closure in 1987 when Armstrong sold sold the military motorcycle business to Harley Davidson and CCM back to Clews.
Was acquired by the Robson family in 1998.
CCM released a street version of their 604 in 2000.
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