ace cafe

[MaybeGuy]

whats the hype with this place? Im on my phone at work posting this, but as soon as the bell rings im off to essex, and plan to stop off there on the way.

Will it be open then?
Is it worth the minor detour?
Anything else?

Eyes peeled for a shitted r6 with panniers and half made of carbon fibre. Aiming for about 8-9pm provided i dont get lost.
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[MonkeyKnuckle]

It should be open but to be honest it's not really anything special. The food's expensive and unless there's an event there not much happens.
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[Nai]

During normal hours it looks like any other expensive London Café. During the evening events (especially Friday night) it is absolutely packed. Gone past it every day for 14 years on a push bike, never gone in properly. Have however seen some impressive rare stuff going in there in the evenings some time. The Hot Rod's night looked impressive. The dune buggy day looked fun too.

[Doovy]

i stopped by on sunday on way home from BCF BBQ, i think it was a superbike sunday, they had a dyno going in the carpark..

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/doovydoo/IMG00311-20100704-1113.jpg

i like it there, good food and atmosphere (usually). can be over-rated though.
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[Nai]

Had a look over the gallery on the website :

https://www.ace-cafe-london.com/postcard_gallery.aspx

Event nights do look cool

[MaybeGuy]

ah well. Even if its shite ill still swing by as its only a few miles off course.
At least then i can say 'ive been to ace cafe'

im guessing theres no events tonight?
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[Nai]

I think there's an event of some sort on there most nights, it says on the website somewhere what the daily events are (though for some reason its not opening for me now ).

[Carvel]

I've been a few times now. It depends whats on. During the day it's nothing to shout about really but I wouldn't say dont go. The foods ok but very overpriced. Friday nights are pretty special though.
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[m0l0t0v]

From what I know it's good on Friday nights <shrug>
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[TheDonUK]

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[Alexio]

Only been there once. Was part of a rally of 1500+ bikes though, so was pretty fun
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[Xanshea]

https://www.ace-cafe-london.com/default.aspx

Ace Cafe use to be an old truck stop where bikers hung out as well, it has a lot of history behind it for older bikers and is nice to pop along even if it is just to say you have been there

A really good bike place to go to is Rykers cafe up box hill in Surrey, that place is usually jam packed with bikes and has some good roads to ride, if you dodge the pot holes and cracks lol.

[MaybeGuy]

didnt end up going in the end, as i figured id rather get the trip over with.
My output shaft decided to leak like fuck all the way up, using 2 litres of oil, filling up twice per tank of fuel, covering my rear wheel in oil but still managed some pretty sweet 3rd gear wheelies on the m25 past about 6 lorries in the slow lane.

Plan is to turn up sunday on the way back from harlow and get rac'd from there because my rear brake doesnt exactly work at all.
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[hellkat]

Its an old biking icon place from way back.
Prolly you would find it a boring, old fartery sort of place.
But its a place to meet, same as Rykers, Matlock or the various tea huts around the place.

But they do have interesting events, both cars and bikes.
All sorts of people turn up there.

Last weekend I took my stepmother (over from NZ) to "Diamond Day", which is a custom bike show run by the Chopper Club, lots of custom bikes.

Weekend before that I was supposed to meet Mad Liz for Sunday breakfast but I got there and she had forgotten about me. So while I waited for her, I had my breakfast and my mate Snob turned up from his Harley shop just up the road. I was kept fairly entertained (to say the least), haha.

Once I arranged to meet some girlie biker mates there who were going to see Tom Jones at Wembley, and that particular day, there was an (very small) meet of Smart car owners

Not very rock an roll, but we didn't care.

Although two weekends in a row is pretty rare for me, I do go there quite a bit, prolly six or seven times a year, for some event or another, or just to go there for breakfast.
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