An online auction featuring 10 brand-new CCM motorcycles alongside a wide-range of spare parts, old factory paraphernalia, and workshop equipment, will end next week.
Set to conclude at 10am on Thursday, October 15 2026, the sale is being run by Lancashire-based Gateway Auctions, who purchased the brand’s remaining stock to produce around a further 135 new motorcycles following the Bolton firm’s collapse in June 2025.
After this sale, a final auction is being planned for Spring 2027 for the last 25 machines produced – with the date of this subject to the bikes passing through the Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA) process to allow them to be road registered.
“We’ve still got a lot of stock, but we thought when we run out of engines, that’s when we’ll bring it to a close, and I think they’re just building the last four bikes now,” Gateway Auctions Director, David Sunderland told MCN.
“It’s been okay. We’ve built about 135 motorbikes,” he continued. “We did have to buy some parts in for probably 100 of them, but only like wiring looms and little bits of components that we didn’t have.
“Once they’re done, that’s it, because we’re not motorcycle builders, really. We’re not in it for the long game – although it would have been nice to see it survive. We sort of exhausted those avenues fairly early on.”
Founded in 1971, CCM entered administration on June 2, 2025 – following a difficult period of sales in 2024 that saw the workforce cut back to just 12 employees.
Alongside this, major retail partners, Completely Motorbikes closed their doors in October 2024 – leaving the brand with just eight distribution outlets across the UK and forcing them to buy back unsold stock.
Following the financial collapse, Gateway then stepped in to continue building machines from the remaining parts – retaining three members of staff in the process. This run of builds has now come to an end, with the final two sales intended to sell off the final completed bikes, and remaining parts.
“We are asset strippers, ultimately, and we buy assets to sell them, and we try and sell them quickly,” Sunderland continued. “I think it has been profitable and it’s more profitable than if we had just sold everything off on day one.
“I’ve enjoyed doing it and I think if it was a factory that made fridge door handles, I probably wouldn’t have bothered.
“We’ve done well out of it, and so have the creditors really, because we paid the administrator more than what the value of the assets would have been if they’d have just put lot numbers on them on day one, which is what they were going to do before we turned up and bought everything.”
The October sale is made up of 1437 lots, including 10 new and unused CCM Spitfire motorcycle variants. Alongside this are everything from promotional banners, to paddock stands – plus a wide range of spares including seats, fuel tanks, and brake calipers.
“What blew me away was how much enthusiasm there is for the brand really and the demand,” he continued. “There’s guys out there who’ve got loads of these bikes, and they still want more.
“It’s a shame that it’s come to an end, but I feel at least we put another 135 CCMs on the road, and we’ve kept the guys in the job for over a year now. It’s not all bad.”
To view the sale and register a bid, visit the Gateway Auctions website today.
It’s still a huge shame that the CCM name ended in such financial circumstances, and it would be great to see it bounce back in the future. For now…