The Adventure Bike Rider Festival ran last month at Ragley Hall in the UK, and along with the usual aftermarket purveyors and OEM display stands. But one of the most interesting displays wasn’t from a major Japanese or European manufacturer—it was from small-scale CCM. The British manufacturer showed off two new concept bikes at the ADV weekend, both interesting takes on the idea of retro, but aimed in different directions:

The question posed is indeed worth pondering: “Which would you buy if any? Retro Trailie or Beach Cruiser?”

Both bikes look capable of handling a bit of unpaved road, but the Retro Trailie looks like it would be a lot more capable. Those dual rear shocks might not be ideal; Triumph is getting away with this idea on its top-shelf Scrambler models, but in those cases, there’s lots of engineering gone into making it work. Will CCM do the same, or will it focus on building a machine with aesthetics over performance? Hopefully it takes the first approach, if these bikes go into production.

The bike actually looks an awful lot like a reworked version of theDakar tribute machinethat CCM was showing off earlier this year, which was itself based on CCM’s Spitfire chassis. That concept bike ran CCM’s big liquid-cooled, four-valve 600cc single, a very honest tribute to the original dune-blasters that ruled Dakar through the 1980s. With the recent interest in rally raid-styled machines, it seems highly possible that CCM will soon offersomethinglike this on the open market, even if it’s a limited-production machine.

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