Go Rental: A CCM street tracker for hire
Supermotards are more fun than you can shake a stick at. Especially when they’re infused with a hefty dose of flat-track style.
This CCM from South Africa?s Wolf Moto is the poster child for the motard-tracker hybrid. You’ll find it ripping up Cape Town as part of Wolf’s rental fleet.
It’s based on an early 2000s CCM 644 DS. If you’re not familiar with CCM, they’re a boutique motorcycle manufacturer based in Bolton, UK, and their reputation is growing.
This bike is sporting a Suzuki DR650 engine cradled in a tubular steel frame. Until 2008 you could buy it as a dual-sport (the ‘DS’), or a motard (the ‘SM’). But the real selling point was the killer parts package: WP suspension, Brembo brakes and Acerbis plastics.
In South Africa CCMs are rare, but Kyle Scott and Chris Clokie got lucky. The build was a coast-to-coast collaboration?with Kyle as creative director, and Chris handling mechanical and fabrication duties as Workshop 88, from Drummond, Kwa-Zulu Natal.
This 644 is the first ‘shop build’ for Wolf Moto?a bike that would be the result of their joint ideas and decisions, rather than a client’s brief.
Soon after the project kicked off, Wolf Moto branched out into motorcycle rentals. ?We had one clear objective in mind,? explains Kyle, ?and that was to make the CCM the headline act in our new custom motorcycle rental fleet.?
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