Welcome to Sydney Cafe Racers.
Sydney Cafe Racers are a Sydney based cafe racer enthusiast group created in 2011.
We are enthusiasts of Japanese, European and American vintage, classic, and custom style motorcycles. We ride Monthly, we ride weekly - Join us to keep up to date with rides in your local area.
Our goal was to create a medium that brings together Sydney based owners of Cafe Racers, Bobber, Flat Trackers, and Classic Bikes. Having achieved that through our website, blog and facebook page we continue to grow stronger. With over 1000 members Australia wide we are fast becoming one of the most active riding groups in Australia. We have future goals of expanding to Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane/Goldcoast and already have groups in Perth and Newcastle.
We have started to expand into merchandise with all the profits going back into making the group stronger. Profits are used to subserdise overnight rides, pay for a 2 way motorcycle radio communication system for our rides, Our first birthday party (June/July 2012), 2012 Xmas party and pay for our website related expenses.
We dont charge members to join us and never will. We do ask if you do want to support us or throw some money our way that you do so by heading to our store and buying yourself some kick ass merchandise!
History of the Cafe Racer
A cafe racer is a type of motorcycle as well as a type of motor cyclist. Both meanings have their roots in the 1960s counterculture group the Rockers, or the Ton-up boys, although they were also common in Italy, Germany, and other European countries. In Italy, the term refers to the specific motorcycles that were and are used for short, sharp speed trips from one coffee bar to another.
Rockers were a young and rebellious Rock and Roll counterculture that wanted a fast, personalized and distinctive bike to travel between transport cafes along the newly built arterial motorways in and around British towns and cities. The goal of many was to be able to reach 100 miles per hour (called simply "the ton") along such a route where the rider would leave from a cafe, race to a predetermined point and back to the cafe before a single song could play on the jukebox, called record-racing.
A classic example of this was to race from the Ace Cafe on The North Circular road in NW London to the Hanger Lane junction and back again. The aim was to get back to the Ace Cafe before the record on the jukebox had finished. Given that some of the tunes back then were less than two minutes long, the racers had to make the three-mile round trip at extremely high speed.
Ace Cafe London. Rebuilt in 1949 after being destroyed in World War II
- There are no joining fees.
- If you are keen to ride with like minded enthusiasts and live in Sydney/Perth or close by then join us.
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- Upon becoming a member you will have access to the website's member area.