Category: Ace Cafe

1. Ace Cafe London Streetfighter & Stunt Fest 2012

   Posted on 12:01am Wednesday 25th Apr 2012

   Ace Cafe London, in association with StuntUK and the international StuntBike Freestyle (SBF) competition, have teamed up again to present the 3rd annual Ace Cafe London Streetfighter & Stunt Festival, to be held throughout the day from 10am on Sunday 29th July at the UK's premiere shopping centre, Brent Cross - one mile east from the cafe along the North Circular Road near the M1 Motorway.
     
   In addition to trade and industry stands and displays, this increasingly popular annual event combines the cafe's legendary Streetfighter Sunday, as well as showcasing the live action final of the SBF competition, with stunt riders from across Europe and beyond taking part and competing in the "Maxxis Arena" for the coveted awards, Maxxis Tyres, Draggin Jeans and cash prize fund totalling £5K.
    
   Individual Free Style
   1st - £2K
   2nd - 1K
   3rd - £750
    
   Longest Stoppie - £750
    
   Sickest Trick - £500
    
   Highlights of this prestigious event include "Best Streetfighter" static display and competition organised by Streetfighters Magazine, plus "Show Up n' Shine" competitions with awards and prizes to include a full "Styling Kit" to the value of approx. £1K, courtesy of Rizoma, Italy's renowned manufacturer of exclusive and exotic motorcycle jewellery.  
    
   Other features include dyno shoot-out, tyre-frying burnouts and a wheelie machine for those who want to experience "Up in the air thrills, 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 games begin!
    
   The London Rockin Rollers, who this year celebrate their 5th anniversary, having been rolling with the punches since 2007 with their eight wheeled thrills and spills, will be assisting in raising funds for London's Air Ambulance, which is once again the events chosen charity.
    
   To enter your bike in the Streetfighters Magazine static display, please contact Will Jobbins at the magazine: [email protected] 
    
   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 Jan at the cafe on
   [email protected] 
    
   www.stuntuk.com
   www.streetfightersmag.com
   www.londonsairambulance.com
   www.fuelgirls.co.uk
   www.ecfmx.co.uk
   www.maxxis.co.uk
   www.rizoma.com
   www.dragginjeans.net
   www.londonrockinrollers.co.uk

2. The Road of Bones Breakfast at the Ace

   Posted on 12:01am Thursday 12th Apr 2012

   Join Compass Expeditions as they depart from Ace Cafe London on the morning of Sunday 20th May 2012 bound for Magadan, at the terminus of the Road of Bones, a journey of 17,800 miles.
     
   Compass Expeditions became the first commercial group to ever successfully ride the legendary Road of Bones after eight adventurous riders and four co-riders set out from Ace in 2011, returning tired and dirty, but elated 102 days later.
    
   With a crew of three, fourteen adventure riders and four co-riders, Compass Expeditions invites motorcyclists of all machines and interested parties to join them for breakfast between 7.30am - 8.30am and wave them off as they attempt to ride across a quarter of the earths surface.
    
   Ride leader Mick McDonald says "Yes it may seem like an un-godly hour, but an early start will fade into insignificance as the days turn into weeks that then turn into months of this epic expedition."
    
   For more information:
   www.compassexpeditions.com
   www.londontomagadan.com

3. Ace Cafe News - Vintage Rock

   Posted on 12:01am Wednesday 21st Mar 2012

   Ace Cafe London has teamed up with the publishers of the recently launched all new magazine "Vintage Rock", Issue 2 of which is now available.
     
   Chronicling all the stellar artists and their music, spanning the dawn of the 1950's to the early 60's, Vintage Rock magazine covers the music, the movies, the fashions and rejoices in the music of Elvis, The Shadows, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent to name but a few, and speaks to audiences that today relish the vitality of the early pioneers.
    
   As well as selling the magazine, the latest issue of which includes a competition to win the 20 track Ace 70th Anniversary CD "Bikes n' Leather, Rockin' at the Ace", the cafe has secured copies of Vintage Rock magazine, Issue 2, as prizes on the following occasions:
    
   Saturday 31st March - Rockin' Record Hop
   Saturday 14th April - Eddie Cochran Tribute Night with Pete Hutton & The Beyonders
   Saturday 28th April - Rockin' Record Hop
   Saturday 26th May - Rockin' Record Hop
   Saturday 31st June - Doo Wop Special with The Roomates
   Saturday 28th July - Rockin' Record Hop
   Saturday 11th August - Elvis Tribute Night (TBA)
   Saturday 25th August - Rockin' Record Hop
    
   www.vintagerockmag.com
   www.acecafeshop.com/products/206

4. Ace Cafe News - National Road Rally Needs You!

   Posted on 12:01am Saturday 3rd Mar 2012

   For the second consecutive year, Ace Cafe London is to be a part of the annual ACU (Auto Cycle Union) National Road Rally, to be held over the weekend of Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July 2012.
     
   First held in 1933, it's the UK's longest running such event, with over 500 entries.  It is also the largest motor sport event run on the public highway.
    
   There are categories for every type of two or three wheeler motorcycles and entries are welcome from beginners to seasoned adventurers.
    
   Volunteers are needed for various "checkpoints", including at the Ace.
    
   If you are interested in either volunteering or taking part, contact:
   John Riches, ACU Rally
   [email protected]

   
   www.nationalroadrally.co.uk

5. Ace at the V&A Museum

   Posted on 12:01am Saturday 3rd Mar 2012

   Hanging Out -Youth culture then and now - 7th May -  4th September 2012

   Full Spectrum Productions presents “Hanging Out - Youth culture then and now” in the Sackler Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum.  Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, this free display includes a selection of work created at the Hanging Out project’s volunteer training activities, oral history workshops and events since October 2010. The display will focus on youth culture during 1950’s and 1960’s London under the sub themes of fashion, film, music, sport, protests and entertainment.

   The display will feature a wall mural produced by sixth form pupils at the Haverstock School in Camden, of an authentic 1950’s Café, based on the legendary Ace Cafe London.  They will use a variety of mediums to create the mural and include photographs by Frank Monaco.

   There will be a 1960’s garment display which will present garments from Laurence Corner, the famous army surplus retailer, such as The Beatles Sergeant Pepper style jackets and a 1960’s press cuttings book. 1950’s style garments made by the project’s volunteers will also be shown.

   To be viewed on video monitors, there will be a selection of short films by London Film Academy students, a film by Simon Friedberg about the closing of the Laurence Corner shop, music performed  by the Hanging Out project’s volunteers and photographs by volunteers from the Creative Editing Workshop which was held at the Museum of London.

   A collection of work from the ‘Images of Protest’ exhibition, held at the Rich Mix Gallery in January 2012, will form part of the display, featuring such icons as Muhammad Ali, Angela Davis and Che Guevara, alongside protest t-shirts designed and printed by the project’s volunteers at the V&A screen-printing workshops.

   As well as the display, the opening night at the Victoria and Albert Museum will feature the premiere of the Hanging Out project’s documentary and the launch of its publication. Two monologues, based on oral history interviews, will be performed by young people within the Ace Cafe mural.

   www.hangingout.org.uk