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Notify me of new posts via email. Blog at WordPress. Photo reproduced courtesy of Massey-Ferguson Limited. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Still works just needs a bit of TLC. I was born in Should I need parts where might I inquire? I had that exact bike when I was 8 years old! Banana seat, shifter, small front tire and crazy handle bars. I wanted a BMX though, lol!

CCM was owned by Levy Industries in the sixties; my aunt married a Levy and I watched them totally mismanage the company, fight with their unions, miss the first bike boom, wreck the brand. Gear , Bikes , City Bike. Written by: Karin Olafson. William Stevens. October 22, February 26, She built bicycle wheels while Gord, a tool-and-die maker, made the machine Alice used. They married in and still live in the Weston area. The Chards were among a few dozen historical buffs who gathered Sunday afternoon at a youth centre in Weston to talk about CCM, a famed sporting goods company.

He bought the bike in Regina a month ago and disassembled it to ship back to Toronto. He weighed kg at the time. Now he weighs 75 kg and recently began riding his vintage CCM downtown, which takes about an hour each way from Weston. CCM was born in Toronto when Walter Massey, of the famed manufacturing family, wanted to build bicycles in addition to farm machinery.

The Masseys also wanted to build cars, which they did from to , McKenty said. Thus the name: Canada Cycle and Motor company. A few years later, CCM began manufacturing skates from the scrap steel lying around the plant, which became the blades. CCM even helped fight fires.