Category: Ace Cafe

1. Ace Cafe Stunt Festival & Streetfighter Show Wembley‏

   Posted on 10:28am Monday 15th Jul 2013

   Ace Cafe London Stunt Festival & Streetfighter Show, Wembley 2013  

   Tickets are now available to purchase at the cafe and via the on-line web shop

   Ace Cafe London, this year celebrating the 75th anniversary of having originally opened in 1938, returns to the world famous and iconic Wembley Stadium Complex for the 4th annual Stunt Festival & Streetfighter Show featuring the premiere of the all new Stunt Bike Open Freestyle Championship Finals, to be held throughout the day from 10am Sunday 28th July.

   In addition to trade and industry stands and displays, the Carole Nash Grandstand, this increasingly popular annual event combines the cafe's legendary Streetfighter Sunday, as well as showcasing the dramatic live action finals of the stunt competition, with stunt riders from across Europe and beyond taking part and competing in the "Metzeler Arena" for the coveted awards, Metzeler tyres, Draggin Jeans and cash prize fund totalling £5K.

   Individual Free Style:

   1st - £2K 2nd - 1K 3rd - £750

   Draggin Jeans Longest Stoppie - £750

   Sickest Trick - £500

   Highlights of this prestigious event also includes "Best Streetfighter" static display and competition, with cash prize fund of £500, the awards and prizes include vouchers for exclusive, precision-made performance products, courtesy of Germany's renowned LSL Motorradtechnik, to the value of £1800!

   Best in Show: 1st - £100 & LSL Voucher £750 2nd - £75 & LSL Voucher £500 3rd - £50 & LSL Voucher £250

   Best Engineering: £50 & LSL Voucher £50

   Best Brightwork - £50 & LSL Voucher £50

   Best Rat - £50 & LSL Voucher £50

   Best Junior/Lightweight - £25 & LSL Voucher £50

   Special cash prizes, each of £50, are to be awarded for the "Best Harley Streetfighter" & "Best BMW Streetfighter", each also receiving a £50 LSL Voucher, both marques this year respectively celebrating their 110th and 90th anniversaries.

   Best Streetfighters competition will be run on a "Show Up n' Shine" basis and are to be on site at Wembley by 9am.

   All fourteen winners, of both the Stunt Bike Open Freestyle Championship Finals and the "Best Streetfighter" Show Up n' Shine competition, also receive Draggin Jeans product vouchers courtesy The Key Collection.

   Other features include tyre-frying burnouts and the "Extreme Wheelie"  machine for those who want to experience "Up in the air thrills, a fun mini moto circuit (40cc's, 5 "on track" at any one time and open to all over 6 years of age and with a special Academy session for kids), together with interactive stands and displays.

   Live entertainment on the Ace stage includes with The Fuel Girls, and mixed with the music, the roar of engines and tyre-shredding drifters, along with the spectacular motorcycling aerobatics and hot tricks of the East Coast FMX Team, featuring Chris "Sir Swampy" Birch, widely acknowledged as Britain's No.1 FMX rider, a regular at the Red Bull X Fighters and BoldDog FMX British Championship winner, adrenaline will be pumping - let the action begin!

   The London Rockin Rollers, who with their eight-wheeled thrills and spills have been rolling with the punches since 2007, will be assisting in raising funds for "Riders for Health", the events chosen charity and who will be operating a helmet park on the day.

   Tickets are available at the cafe and via the Ace on-line web shop as well as "On the gate on the day".

   Buy your ticket at the cafe and you will receive a free tea or coffee.

   Tickets: £10 per person £15 Family Ticket (available on the day)

   Club & Group pre-booking concessions available - please contact Lora David at the cafe on [email protected]

2. Ace Cafe News - Paid Motorcycle Market Research‏

   Posted on 10:19am Thursday 11th Jul 2013

   Looking for owners of the following bikes to attend a focus group on Tuesday 16th July in London W.1. at 6.30pm.

   Payment: £100 for 2 hours

   Men & women aged 20 - 60

   Ducati Panigale / Panigale S  BMW S1000RR  MV Augusta F4 1000 / 1000R  Aprilia RSV4

   All bikes must have been bought from new and later than 2009.

   For more information, please call Luci on 07940 520 224

3. Ace at Mulafest Spain!

   Posted on 10:31am Tuesday 25th Jun 2013

   Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the cafe, having originally opened in 1938, Ace Cafe London will form an integral part of the 3rd annual Mulafest, held from Thursday 27th - Sunday 30th June at Feria de Madrid, Spain.    
   
   This unique four-day "urban trends" festival and event, brings together an array of apparently diverse interests, from bikes and workshops, to music, art and tattoo, all of which combine to produce an exciting and exhilarating mix of retro and the avant garde!  

   The Ace Cafe London "Ace Corner" stand, display and presence will showcase and feature two legendary and iconic classic British motorcycles, a Brough Superior, known as the Rolls Royce of motorcycles, and a Triton, favourite of the Ton Up Boys and Rockers of the 1950's and 60's.  

   In addition to the Ace Cafe, Rockers and StoMoCo items, and along with products from the Isle of Man TT "Red Rider" supporters, Red Torpedo, "Gear with Grit" will be available together with a limited selection from the authentic and original Sailor Jerry clothing range.  

   Debuting with Ace at Mulafest, will be the critically acclaimed seminal book "Ace Times - Speed thrills and tea spills, a cafe and a culture" by author Mick Duckworth and the all new Ace 75th anniversary CD album, "Ace Cafe The Rock n' Roll Years 1956-62", featuring 28 British and American recordings released in the UK in those legendary years on single, EP and LP - the tracks are rebellious, wild and frantic!  
   
   www.mulafest.com
   www.brough-superior.com
   www.redtorpedo.com
   www.sailorjerry.com
   www.ace-cafe-london.com

4. Ace Cafe London Drivers Challenge!

   Posted on 6:54am Wednesday 19th Jun 2013

   Entries are invited for the inaugural Ace Cafe London Drivers Challenge, a Clubman Production Car Autotest 'Taster Event'  to be held on Sunday 14th July and which is organised by Middlesex County Automobile Club on behalf of the Ace to celebrate the cafe's 75th anniversary of having originally opened in 1938.    

   Conceived primarily to provide an introduction to motor sport, the entry is limited to just 75 vehicles across six different classes each with a crew of two, driver and navigator.    

   The meeting, governed by the General Regulations of the Motor Sport Association (incorporating the provisions of the International Sporting Code of the FIA) includes driving around cones "against the clock" and several other timed tests, and with at least two runs at each test (on private ground) the best times count!  If there are more than two runs at a particular test, the slowest time is disregarded.    

   Awards up for grabs for "Fastest Time of the Day" and, subject to there being sufficient entries in each vehicle class, there will be a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place award in each of the classes.    

   Vehicle Classes:    Front-wheel drive saloons up to 1600cc  Front-wheel drive saloons over 1600cc  Rear-wheel drive saloons up to 2000cc  Rear-wheel drive saloons over 2000cc  Open/Sports cars up to 1600cc  Open/Sports cars over 1600cc    

   Closing date for entries is Saturday 29th June, with ceremonial start at the Ace from 9am Sunday 14th July.     

   Entry, £75 includes breakfast at the Ace, from 7am, a packed lunch and food & beverage at the cafe from 6pm, together with presentation of awards.    

   For more information or to enter check out: www.mcac.co.uk

   www.ace-cafe-london.com

5. Brough Shakes The Salt & The Sand with Ace Cafe London!

   Posted on 6:56am Wednesday 15th May 2013

   Ace Cafe London is thrilled and privileged to once again be able to confirm being part of, and supporting, the Brough Superior Team heading out to break and reset land speed records in multiple classes, in August, on the famous Bonneville Salt Flats, USA, with two motorcycles, a "Retro" and a "Pendine", based on the iconic 1927 SS100, a machine sharing heritage and fame with Col. T.E. Lawrence - "Lawrence of Arabia".

   Brough were on the salt previously in 1949 with a streamlined machine ridden and crashed by Noel Pope - he vowed to "never ride a streamline again", and on returning to Bonneville in 2011 the new, unstreamlined, Brough Superior SS100 Retro, with a specially tuned J.A.P. V-Twin engine, running on "pump" fuel, clocked two runs, at 127 & 122 mph respectively, giving a mean average speed of 124.98mph and breaking the MA 1350-A-VG speed record!      

   The 2013 Brough Superior Team, much larger than in previous years, includes riders Eric Patterson, Alan Cathcart and Henry Cole, all flying the flag for England!      

   In addition, over the weekend of 22nd & 23rd June, the Brough Superior Team, together with Ace Cafe London and support crew, will be racing on Pendine Sands, Wales, the historic home of land speed racing in the UK and where, in 1928, a specially prepared SS100, built and ridden by George Brough, came first and subsequently gave rise to a limited number of very fast, and now very rare, high performance "Pendine Racers" being produced at the Nottingham factory.      

   An SS100 Pendine Racer is currently on display at the Ace, courtesy of Mark Upham, CEO of Brough Superior Motorcycles Ltd, who confirms that Brough, made in England, looks forward to racing and to setting new records at both Pendine and Bonneville.      

   www.brough-superior.com

   www.pendinelrc.com

   www.speedtrialsbybub.com