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August 14th Erwin, Paul and me went to visit the most famous cafe in Europe: the Ace Cafe in London. A place where bikers meet since the early sixties. It was the third time they organised an event called 'Streetfighter Sunday'. |
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And what a crazy event it was! I've often seen streetfighters making rolling burnouts, wheelies, stoppies and donuts. But never on a public road, surrouded by police and normal traffic. © londonbikers.com | |
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Hour after hour of entertainment, burning rubber, stunts and noise. Individuals and stuntteams came to show their skills.
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On the parking lot a madman called Ghostie did one handed kneedowns ...
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... even in the rain! © londonbikers.com | |
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But one can push the limits too far. © londonbikers.com | |
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The X-Boys from Germany showed some professional bike killing skills. Burn some rubber ... © londonbikers.com | |
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... and add some fire. © londonbikers.com | |
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Game over. © londonbikers.com | |
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I parked the CBX near the entrance; it drew quite some attention. |
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So many gathered around it, it became scary. Erwin and Paul put a red-and-white ribbon around the bike; this helped. |
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It's a small world after all: Thomas Pettersson from Sweden (in the middle) showed up with his snowmobile, and showed off as well! He was having a good time: "Crazy stuff, crazy stuff!". |
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Talking about 'a small world': I met the famous French bike cartoonist Antoinne Collignon. You see his drawing skills at the top of my site. Visit his site here. On his left you see Jon Tober, the man behind the only serious streetfightershow in Holland, called 'Street or Track Streetfighter Day'. Visit this great event on the 18th of September in Utrecht. More information here (the picture on the poster is drawn by ... yes). | |
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The German team from Fighters Magazin came over as well. Visit Fighterama in November: it's the best German streetfightershow. Man, is this an advertising site? Nope, but they're all worth mentioning. | |
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This guy, named Tigga, made me the biggest compliment: he told me he had a poster of my bike in his workshop, and whenever he was out of inspiration he would look at it and start over again. |
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Yes, it's a cop, I know. This one didn't give me a ticket though ... |
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... as I made a burnout between the traffic. |
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Later that evening two nice Polish girls asked me to take pictures; I couldn't refuse. |
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Mark, the owner of the Ace Cafe, granted me to park my bike inside. Where I took some more pictures. |
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Later that night Erwin put his GL1000 against the cafe and smoked his almost new tyre. We were lucky there was no rain the days after... |
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Stunting went on and on until 02.00 a.m. One of them, Nats, seemed undefatigable on his CBR. |
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Nats was in total control. |
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It was a bit late to put up a tent so we slept in front of the cafe in an improvised tent-like 'something', between two bikes. |
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Next morning we found out why everything smelled like rubber. |
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As I got my bike out of the cafe I happened to see someone touching it; I was too hungover to kill him though ;-) |
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On our way back to the ferry we met a Dutch group riding vintage Broughs Superior (pronunciation: 'bruf'). Beautiful classic machines. They'd been visiting a meeting as well. Next year we'll back to England, no doubt about it! | |
