I had a go on the new CCM recently. It's a nice little bike. Here are the thoughts of a motorbiking newbie who is riding 660 Tenere for some time:

Good:
- It's light for sure, you can do some silly things on gravel and the back end is very easy to bring back in line
- Wind protection with standard screen is good, no sign of buffeting at 70 (I'm 6'4'' and get a lot of buffeting on Tenere regardless of screen height, deflectors etc)
- Power delivery has a nice little peak
- Fueling is nice and smooth or perhaps lack of grunt is hiding jerkiness well
- Frame is a masterpiece

Not necessarily bad:
- Fork and suspension in general on my bike was very stiff. I had a go on FE570 recently and CCMs suspenders didn't feel anything like the magic carpet of the Husaberg. Can they be set up to feel similar???
- Even with high seat I felt my legs are bent beyond comfortable but I feel like that about most of the dirt bikes (I find 690 a bit more roomy)
- Power feel like a barely acceptable minimum to me but there is not much grunt there compared to the Tenere, I like when the back steps out with light twist of the throttle and CCM needs to be worked hard to do that and mine was on semi street tyres
- I was trying to get some detailed info on what actually needs servicing when but staff presenting the bike didn't know much which I find a bit disturbing. They mentioned a valve check at every oil change
- Found the front brake a bit spongy and vague but not a deal breaker
- Although bike feels ok at 70mph it is at the cost of first gear crawling ability, I would want to change sprockets on longer trips

So yeah it's a cool bike although feels like purposefully made for smaller people. I can't see it replacing Tenere in my case. And as a hardcore long distance trail bike I would probably start with sth like fe570.