Re: "Cafe Racer"

Posted by Piute on Nov 14, 2012; 2:30am
URL: http://vintage-and-classic-hondas.81.s1.nabble.com/Cafe-Racer-tp4032064p4032089.html

motogrady wrote

That's about it.
Aces Cafe' in England, late 40's, 50's, most agree is where it started.
Some called them Teddy Boys.
Some called them Rockers.
Partial to American be bop and country/western music,
they didn't believe in drugs or booze, said it dulled the
sensation of riding, which is what it was all supposed to be about.

Close to the Aces Cafe' were 2 or 3 other coffee shops that,
if you could hit 100mph, or "A Ton", could be visited in the time it took
to listen to a 2 minute 45 on the record player.

If you could put a record on in Aces Cafe', jump on your bike,
haul it over a bridge, past the cops, stop in the next Cafe', jump back on and
be back before the record finished, you were a member of the Ton Up Club.

To do this, a stock Beemer, Norton or Bsa just wouldn't cut it.
So they began chopping the extra weight off, increasing the hp,
got out of the wind, went for better handleing........and the Cafe' Racer was born.

Believe it or not guys, this is where we come from........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFXDBxCNZRM

    I READ THAT EXCACT THING long ago(forgot till now) THX.

 

Rick7r wrote

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it stems from the old days when the mods and rockers in England used to race from cafe to cafe with their stripped down motorcycles