CAFÉ RACER

CAFÉ RACER

Nov 16, 2024 | MOTORS, MOTORS

Café Racer: two words that encapsulate a world.

It is difficult to give a precise description, but the origin of the term is sure and takes us to England at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s.

In particular, the Café that gave rise to this definition is the Ace Café built on London’s North Circular Road to cater to a clientele of travellers.

The catalysts for bikers were the location, the 24-hour non-stop opening and the fact that the café was the place to listen to rock and roll. 

While young people across the Atlantic race down the roads of California as depicted in the now legendary Thunder Road from Grease, in England young people have to settle with motorbikes, which they process as much as ‘ grease lightning’ to compete in speed races.

These are the boys of The Ton generation: that is, the boys who want to reach 100 miles per hour.

To reach The Ton and win the challenges, the motorbikes are lightened to make them faster.

These particular motorbikes parked outside the Ace Café become Café Racer’s motorbikes.

Since then, the evolution has been multifaceted and ranges like the firmament, so much so that it does not fit into any precise definition.

Café Racer

Many motorbike manufacturers produce models in expressly Café Racer versions.

Did you have a chance to visit the EICMA in recent days?

For example, the following were presented:

Triumph Thruxton café racer par excellence final edition hand-painted trim and top-level equipment.

1100 Sport Pro Ducati Scrambler®, café racer style in the retro on-off segment, state-of-the-art electronics.

Continental GT 650 Royal Enfield dynamic stance and collected riding position, hallmarks of a traditional café racer. 

And more

Honda CB1000R
BMW Nine T Racer
Moto Guzzi V7

do you want to go on?

Are you a biker?

What is your favourite bike?

I look forward to your stories, in the meantime here is a ride in the places I often like to tell you about. 

This is the café racer according to my husband: The Bat.

I WANNA TAKE HUGH THERE

I WANNA TAKE HUGH THERE

Jul 27, 2024 | MOVIES, MOVIES, MUSIC, MUSIC

I wanna take Hugh there … pun inspired by the very famous lyrics of a song that needs no introduction:

When you call my name, it’s like a little prayer
I’m down on my knees, I wanna take you there

Impossibile to listen to this song without singing it, a universal song.

Just as Hugh is universally known.

Also this time I would like to talk about the non-original soundtrack.

Here it is.

I wanna take Hugh there.

What can I say?
A fantastic excursus into pop history.

I mention as an example You’re the One That I Want, itself the soundtrack to a film I have seen countless times in my life.

Grease was the first film with friends in the cinema in the place where I was born, obviously love at first sight.

A movie in which cars take on the role of status symbols for the guys, who process them, use them for drive-ins and also for their ‘dates.’

Lo and behold, even the Deadpool & Wolverine scene with the Grease song playing in the background takes place in a car … still a symbol if you will, but a lame one.

And ‘the encounter’ is still physical and related to friendship, but on the level that characterises the whole film: totally insane.

Friendship and madness mingle as elective affinities between this trio who manage to put together a series of crowd-pleasing situations, not to mention cameos.

The third element is Shawn Levy, who gave us that gem Stranger Things. 

Watch out for those other two: Hugh and Ryan interact like two opposite, colourful halves, just like in this little gadget.

I wanna take Hugh there.

They represent well the passing of time, with the desire to always remain themselves, superheroes or nerds, or both.

And at the first notes of Good Riddance you are left with nostalgia: something umpredictable but it in the end is right.

Would you like to tell me something related to any of the other songs?

You can find them directly on Spotify. 

In both cases the songs appear as per the tracklist on the Disney site which sells the two branded LPs.

There is actually more.

Impossible not to mention Hells Bells … I’ll let you imagine as soon as the first notes start.

And then there’s I wanna take Hugh there …
courtesy of Madonna.

It’s not like it’s a no-brainer.

Ryan Reynolds said in an interview that he didn’t know how to ask for it: ‘what do I do, call up and say hello this is Ryan?’

Apparently that’s exactly what happened, but luckily for him, Madonna’s kids like Marvel superheroes too.

I wanna take Hugh there.

How about you?

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