MOTORCYCLE NEWS

Foscam Wireless Camera

To get right down to it, we like these "plug & play" 1280 x 720p Foscam Wireless Cameras, and we like 'em a lot. We bought a couple some months back, and they've since been on test quietly monitoring the comings and goings around the Sump garages—and they've been doing a great job. We already had four hard-wired high-resolution cameras on the job. But by modern technology standards, these devices are medieval. Not that there's actually much wrong with them, mind. They watch. They listen. They record. But the new Foscam Wireless Cameras take security to a new level, notably by issuing instant alerts to our smartphones when we're out and about. Better still, the set-up routine is simple and (mostly) stress free. [More...]

CCM Bobber announced

Maybe it was inevitable that CCM would eventually get around to manufacturing a bobber. These days they're all the rage, and CCM has already been flirting with cafe racers and flat trackers in order to enhance (or perhaps dilute) its more traditional range of "Skunkwerx" Spitfire series bikes. Founded by Lancashire man Alan Clews—a highly respected trials and scrambles racer of the late 1960s and early 70s—Clews Competition Motorcycles (CCM) has enjoyed a long and convoluted manufacturing path which has included military machines, motocross bikes, supermotos and even a flirtation with the adventure scene. In doing so, some would say that CCM has totally confused its identity, largely through being bounced around a series of ownerships and torn between commercial impulses, always chasing the buck and seizing whatever (dubious?) opportunity came its way. [More...]