WE’VE DONE THE TON
A bit of selfcongratulatory flag waving here, but the CMM Facebook page has broken through the 100,000 likes barrier! Under Scott Redmond’s stewardship, the page has grown from 5500 likes last year to more than 101,000 at my last time of looking. So, Scott and our pal Ian ‘Shroom’ Burgess are planning to take things up a level and run a social-media only Project Bike which you can follow online. So what is it, Scottie? He says: “The plan was a simple one, find an old bike, approach our friends in the bike trade and create an online project bike for our 100,000 followers on the CMM Facebook page. Instead of words and photographs it’s going to be filmed on the CMM camcorder and uploaded not only to Facebook at 9pm on a Sunday evening, but it will also be stored nice and neatly on our new Youtube channel. “When our video man Shroom pulled up on a knackered Suzuki Bandit 1200 he’d got off ebay for £1150 we realised we had our first subject. “So far, so good. The next step was to reach out to the trade and round up the parts we’d need to make this all happen. They didn’t disappoint us. The lovely Daisy Cordell at Wemoto liked the idea so much she insisted we give her a shopping list. Mike from Mad4bikes follows our page and replied to our shout-out, his box of XCP cleaning products being the first parts to land at our workshop. Martin from Max Torque Cans noticed our photos and by chance he’d just made his first 4-2-1 full system for the Bandit 1200, should we need to replace the exhaust it’s nice to know we can access one. “There’s plenty of excitement within the CMM squad, if it goes to plan it should be epic and we’ll all bathe in the glory, if it bombs it was all Bertie’s idea…”
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