Bike Garage - Cafe Racer Loving Cup

The always active together with prolific British of The Bike Shed invented the Cafe Racer Cup.
The Cafe Racer Cup is designed to become to a greater extent than people on-track, on bikes they usually ride on the road, spell celebrating the furnish of the ubiquitous Cafe Racer.

It was the Cafe Racer that started the whole modern-retro motorbike resurgence, together with spell the brats, scramblers, bobbers together with flat-trackers become all the glory, nosotros even together with then dearest a fast-looking wheel amongst clip-ons, rear-sets, a unmarried topographic point together with chin-on-the-tank attitude. Add topographic point out decals together with an electrical-tape X on the headlight, together with the game is on.

The format for the ride is only similar a Track Day, but aimed at consummate novices together with those amongst pocket-size rail skills. Unusually for a Track twenty-four hours event, all bikes volition last fitted amongst transponders, together with then you lot tin run across your lap times improve, together with nosotros volition grouping riders into sets where people are lapping at similar speeds – regardless of the wheel they are riding.

To qualify to ride, the are ninety places, together with you lot must last on a Cafe Racer, together with we’ll get to arrive clear what that means… No modern sports-bikes please. Your wheel should possess got clip-ons, rear-sets, route tyres together with ideally unmarried seat. Half fairings together with bikini fairings are permitted, but no total race bikes or track-day bikes volition last allowed. We await most riders to ride their wheel to the track, together with larn out the same way – inward i piece. If you lot select your wheel inward a van, nosotros assume you’ve come upwardly a long way together with are giving people a lift!

On the Lydden Hill Race Circuit circuit, Wootton, Canterbury, Kent, the race volition accept house on Saturday, July 21st, amongst the crowded publicity grid, inward fact the ninety available seats went nigh instantly all sold out.

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