Category: Ace Cafe

1. Ace Cafe News - Win Ace New Years Eve Tickets!

   Posted on 9:15am Saturday 14th Dec 2013

   Pairs of tickets to attend the cafe's annual New Years Eve Party, to be held 9pm - 2am on Tuesday 31st December, are up for grabs as prizes throughout the week from Monday 23rd - Monday 30th December (excluding Christmas Day when the cafe is closed).
    
    The tickets, each worth £20, includes all the usual festivities and a hot supper.

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   Spend £5 or more over the counter and receive a raffle ticket:
    
   Monday 23rd December - from 6pm (Draw at 10pm)
   Tuesday 24th December - from Noon (Draw at 5pm)
   Wednesday 26th December - from Noon (Draw at 5pm)
   Friday 27th December - from 6pm (Draw at 10pm)
   Saturday 28th December - from 6pm (Draw at 10pm)
   Sunday 29th December - from Noon (Draw at 5pm)
   Monday 30th December - from 6pm (Draw at 10pm)
    
   Good Luck & Happy New Year!

2. Ace Cafe London Xmas Toy Run‏

   Posted on 9:21am Monday 9th Dec 2013

   Ace Cafe Xmas Toy Run

   The cafe's annual Christmas Toy Run into central London departs at 11am on Sunday 15th December to attend the children's wards of three hospitals:

   St Mary's (Paddington) 11.45am - 12.15pm
   Royal Brompton (Chelsea) 1pm - 1.30pm
   Evelina Children's Hospital (Westminster) 2pm - 2.30pm

   As always, any surplus gifts will be distributed to various children's homes and groups.

   Please bring gifts that are wrapped and labelled Boy/Girl/Age Group

   Because of allergies hospitals advise against stuffed toys and sweets - the nursing staff however may appreciate some sweeties!

   On returning to the cafe, there will be prizes for the "Best Dressed Bike" and the "Best Dressed Rider" - and a hot cuppa!

   NB: After 15 years of "heading up" the toy run, Ron Miles will be retiring. He said "I started this run back in 1998, and have attended the event every year. It has been wonderful to see the smiles of the kids who are in hospital, and also to see the smiles of the riders who take part - it's a very emotional experience, and I would like us to make this year a big one!"

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3. Our favourite stands at Motorcycle Live 2013

   Posted on 2:28pm Monday 25th Nov 2013

   After a great day at Motorcycle Live yesterday, this week we will share with you some of our favourite stands, staring with Ace Café - Hall 2, stand 2E66.

   Celebrating 75 Years of the Ace Café. The stand is based on the Ace Cafe T3 Racing hospitality truck, features various bikes including the all new Ace 1200CR Street Special cafe racer and a 1958 Royal Enfield Constellation ‘Daily Mirror’ bike, featured on the front page of the paper on Thursday 9th February 1961!
   
   Various memorabilia is for sale including badges, patches, the critically acclaimed book ‘Ace Times' and the CD album ‘Ace Cafe The Rock n’ Roll Years 1956-62′.

   

   

4. Motorcycle Live is go!

   Posted on 1:03pm Saturday 23rd Nov 2013

   Motorcycle Live 2013 is set to celebrate the history of one the UK’s most popular biking haunts.

   75 of the Ace Cafe will tell the story of the London-based venue and feature some stunning machinery, including the all-new Ace 1200CR Street Special cafe racer.

   The Ace Cafe London ‘Ace  stand, display and presence, based on the Ace Cafe T3 Racing hospitality truck, features, amongst the bikes displayed, the Motorcycle Live debut of the all new Ace 1200CR Street Special cafe racer (‘breathed’ on HD Sportster motor in a ‘featherbed’), as well as an Ace 904S Thruxton Special and the unique and historic, 1958 Royal Enfield Constellation ‘Daily Mirror’ bike, featured on the front page of the paper on Thursday 9th February 1961!

   In addition to telling the story of the cafe and its history, together with the critically acclaimed seminal book ‘Ace Times – Speed thrills and tea spills, a cafe and a culture’, by author Mick Duckworth, both the all new 132 page Ace Cafe Bookazine and CD album ‘Ace Cafe The Rock n’ Roll Years 1956-62′, featuring 28 British & American recordings released in the UK in those legendary years, will be available.

   HALL: 2

   STAND: 2E66

    

   

5. Ton Up Day - Just for Kicks!

   Posted on 8:51am Tuesday 29th Oct 2013

   Sunday 3rd November  9am - 5pm    

   "If there's one thing that I like, it's a burn up on my bike", released on 7" vinyl, at 45rpm, by Parlophone, R4974 and charting in 1963, written by Charles Blackwell, produced by Robert Stigwood and famously sung by Mike Sarne, "Just For Kicks" is the Ton Up anthem!    

   Celebrating this seminal song daytime at the cafe on Sunday 3rd November, occasion of the cafe's annual Ton Up Day, with raffle prizes up for grabs to include the cafe's 70th anniversary CD album "Bikes n' Leather Rocking at the Ace!" which features the song at track 10.    

   Other prizes include 2 pairs of tickets to attend the cafe's annual Johnny Kidd Tribute Night with the band The Fireballs on Saturday 9th November together with the books "Classic British Motorcycle", "How To Build A Cafe Racer", "Building Budget Brits" and an Ace 75th anniversary goody pack.    

   Spend £5 or more over the counter at the cafe on Sunday 3rd November from 10am and receive a raffle ticket.  Draw to be held at 3pm.

   www.ace-cafe-london.com