CAFE RACER
THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
EVERYTHING OLD
IS COOL AGAIN
2 DVD BOX SET
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Discover the
secrets of a motorcycle life style which is taking the world by storm in the
complete first season of the critically acclaimed television series Café Racer
'Vintage reborn'
is the theme of Cafe Racer, a 13-episode television series that explores the
craft and lifestyle of a motorcycle subculture.
In the popular TV
series, 11 motorcycle builders spread between Manhattan and Los Angeles
salvage, cut grind and weld their own cafe customs while keeping in mind the
movement's post-war British roots.
With Billy Joel
and Jason Lee guest starring and motorcycle icons Ben and Eric Bostrom as test
riders of these two-wheeled classics, season one of Cafe Racers pulls the
forgotten machines of this lost culture out of barns and junkyards and on to
the roads of the 21st century.
Episode Guide:
Episode 1 – Revisit the origins of the fast,
customised street bike through eyewitness accounts of the Rockers and ton-up
boys themselves. Café Racer visits Mark Wilsmore of Ace Café, London, for some
historical perspective on the early days of the scene, complete with rare,
historical footage from the 1950s and ‘60s. Veterans of the mods and rockers
dust-ups from British beaches tell their tales; Café Racer gears up for a look
down the road at the coming trends, machines, events and builders keeping the
ton-up tradition alive today.
Episode 2 – Join Largo, Florida’s Dime City Cycles
in their search for the perfect project bike in a junkyard bristling with
two-wheeled treasures; Brian Richardson, a sheep farmer and country lawyer from
the wilds of Bluegrass, Virginia, launches his quest to build the world’s first
electric-powered Norton café racer; Dallas does it up big with their annual
Mods and Rockers rally while music legend Billy Joel rides with Café Racer and
recalls some of his favourite fast bikes.
Episode 3 – Meet J&B Moto Co., a café emporium
located in the heart of Harley-Davidson country; Florida’s Dime City Cycles
tear into their project bike to find some good, and bad, surprises; After 35
years in the red, England’s Norton Motorcycles make a comeback and invite Café
Racer to test the new 961 Commando; Virginia farmer Brian Richardson faces off
against some of the big guns in road racing on his barn-built Norton Electra,
zero-emissions café racer.
Episode 4 – Café Racer travels to the cornfields
of Davenport, Iowa, where former chopper builder Greg Hageman unearths a
project bike in his family’s barn; York, Pennsylvania’s J&B Moto Co.
attempt to build a café racer version of the world’s most famous road racing
motorcycle; Café Racer magazine road tester Blake Kelly moves from illegal to
legit as he switches careers from stunt rider to road racer; Dime City Cycles
complete their project bike and hand it over for testing to a classic road
racer.
Episode 5 – Café Racer makes a visit to the annual
Mods VS Rockers rally in Chicago, the nation’s longest-running café event;
Davenport, Iowa, builder Greg “Doc’s Chops” Hageman completes the rebuild of
his barn-find Honda CX 500 V-twin while we meet Long Beach California’s Jay
LaRossa, a former hot rod car designer whose turned his attention to Japanese
café bikes from the 1970s; meanwhile, the crew from Pennsylvania’s J&B Moto
Co. hand their Yamaha XS 650 monoshock custom over the pro-road racers Eric and
Ben Bostrom for a high-speed test ride.
Episode 6 – We meet Yoshi Kosaka of California’s
Garage Company as he sets out to build a 1965 Triumph motorcycle in Los
Angeles; across the Golden State, Jay LaRossa tears into a Yamaha SR 500
single, making the machine a thing of speed and beauty; not to be outdone is
Greg Hageman who sits back to watch as Ton-Up Chicago founder Larry Fletcher
tries to coax the ton from Greg’s CX 500 Honda.
Episode 7 – The Café Racer crew packs its bags and
travels to London’s Lewis Leathers, the world’s oldest motorcycle gear
manufacturer; Alan Bernard of Florida’s Santiago Choppers switches from
choppers to ton-up machines as he sets out to build a wicked, Kawasaki custom.
At Garage Company, Japanese expat Yoshi Kosaka’s team shows us speed and
efficiency as they reconstruct their Rickman-Triumph special and it’s test and
tune time for Long Beach custom king Jay LaRossa and his Yamaha SR 500 single
when it runs head on into the Boz Brothers in the California canyons.
Episode 8 – If you dig café bikes that are raw,
gritty and quick, New York’s 6th Street Specials is the place to be this week
as owner Hugh Mackie searches for parts to build a vintage BSA twin; Sparks fly
and all the rules get broken as Santiago Choppers wades into their
Martin-chassis Kawasaki 1000; “My Name is Earl” and “Memphis Blues” star Jason
Lee visits Lossa Engineering in Long Beach to check out what may be his next
custom café ride and Garage Company’s Yoshi Kosaka shares his Rickman special
with the Bostrom Brothers in his final test ride.
Episode 9 – New York’s XPO Streetfighter show the
historic links between futuristic streetfighters and café racers as they start
a 919 Honda project bike; In Manhattan’s Lower east Side, 6th Street Specials’
Hugh Mackie and tuner Fumi start rebuilding a 1958 BSA twin; The best of
America’s custom streetbikes is profiled in the second instalment of Café A La
carte and Florida’s Santiago Choppers places their Martin-frame Kawasaki 1000
in the hands of rockabilly motorheads the Psycho Devilles for a full-speed
test.
Episode 10 – In Chicago, the husband and wife team
of Chad and Bee McDade begin a Norton Commando project with lots of hidden
surprises; XPO Streetfighter brings in its best technicians to transform their
919 Honda naked roadster into a Café-Fighter; We point our cameras towards
Milwaukee for the annual Rockerbox street festival where the café racer is
king; New York’s 6th Street Specials test their BSA café racer on the road with
a test riders too young to remember when motorcycles had kick-starters.
Episode 11 – Delaware’s Loaded Gun Customs turn
their gaze from custom hot rods and drift cars to a Triton café bike; Ace
Motorcycle and Scooter begin rebuilding their 1970s Norton Commando in Chicago;
Meet legendary Vincent tuner “Big Sid” Biberman, America’s foremost expert on
making British V-Twins go fast; Pro-road racers Eric and Ben Bostrom pit their
skills against XPO Streetfighter’s 110-horsepower Honda 919 Café-Fighter. Café
racers; Sid Biberman, an 80-year-old motorcycle customiser is interviewed. LA’s
Garage Company has their motorcycle put to the test.
Episode 12 –Loaded Gun Customs finds that building
custom Triton café bikes may be the hardest job for their hot rod shop so far;
aAfter watching the best custom café builders in the world creating one of a
kind, motorcycles, can two unskilled riders do the same for just $1,000 and in
under 12 hours? Join Café Racer at the AMA’s Vintage Motorcycle Days swap meet
to find out; Norman Hyde is England’s most famous motorcycle drag racer and now
he’s created the Hyde Harrier Jubilee, a customized, modern Triumph Bonneville
with some serious performance; Chicago’s Ace Motorcycle and Scooter race to
complete their Norton Commando project bike in time for the Café Racer crew’s
test ride. Now, if only Mother Nature would play along….
Episode 13 – The crew at Delaware’s Loaded Gun
Customs hands their Triton hybrid bike over to pro-road racers Ben and Eric
Bostrom to see whether the combination of Norton handling and Triumph power
still holds up to the legend. While the clock ticks down the remaining hours of
their Mid-Ohio Vintage Motorcycle Days challenge build, Ben Freidman and Mike
Seate try and make their custom café racers a reality for just under $1,000;
and we head back to Oyster Bay, Long Island, to catch up with café racing Piano
Man Billy Joel as he joins us for a ride.
Total running time – 254 Minutes
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