Comments on: Rockers' Revenge_2

By: English Iron | mostly by motorcycle

English Iron | mostly by motorcycle — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:16:45 +0000

[…] best and lightest parts of different British-made motorcycles. The holy grail, if you will, of cafe racers was the Triton. The Norton, famed for it’s lightweight, road hugging ridged chassis […]

By: vipertruck99

vipertruck99 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:21:00 +0000

you know you are lost in a sea of bewilderment when you can neither identify the bike or the actress.…and no i cant tell katy perry from zooey deschanel either.lovin that ducati though,colour choice is superb

By: david

david — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:43:00 +0000

Took me a while to track it down, as it’s Keira Knightley in the ad. The bike is a Ducati Supersport 750 (for most of the ad!) and she is sporting some beautiful Ruby headgear, too.

By: vipertruck99

vipertruck99 — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:51:00 +0000

here is a question.…..at the mo there is a perfume ad on tv with (i think) natalie portman,she rides a beige 70s (italian??) superbike and wears beige leathers.she and the bike look stunning but what is the bike,its unbadged,seems to have an aftermarket fairing (??) and to my mainly car brain is unidentifable.any takers???

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:59:00 +0000

74 Ducati=way after the Cafe Racer era in reference. There was no comparable Italian bikes in the heyday of Brit Rockers.

By: steve berry

steve berry — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:32:33 +0000

So, go on then. What exactly was faster than a JAP-engined Matchless, a Brough Superior, a Vincent or Triumph Bonneville?

And, while we're at it, I have done my homework, pal.

I've interviewed - at length - Mark Wilsmore from The Ace, Father Dennis, Martine and Claude from the French '59 Club. Black Cecil, Sean 'The Rocketeer' and Derek from Lewis Leathers. Trini. Ken, Steve, Ian and Brian from The Busy Bee. Oliver Tobias. Dave 'Dammed' Vanian. And many, many others.

No-one looked like the revisionists? Check out 'The Leather Boys' - a movie that employed real-life Ace Caff regulars as extras - or, better still, Johnny Stuart's excellent book 'Rockers'. Or, do like I did and ask my Dad who wore a black leather jacket, hid a flick-knife in the turn-ups on his blue jeans and sat outside the Palais De Danse on his British Cafe Racer. He would have gone in but was banned for fighting.

Perhaps the next time you parade your ignorace in public you could try not to so rude. You might end up looking stupid.

Oh, you just did.

By: leaper

leaper — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:42:29 +0000

You must be a miserable sod in the morning.……i thought my missus was on HER period!
British bikes were the way to do it, triumph were huge in America in that era. grab yourself some Kalms and chill.

By: grumpy rocker

grumpy rocker — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:45:36 +0000

No, the fastest bikes have not always been British ... what a silly, silly thing to say.

And do, for example, Ducati and Moto Guzzi not have their own tradition of cafe racers?

Of course ... where do you think the feckin' traditions of "caffs" come from ... they were feckin' run by Italians.

I'll take the original '74 750 SS Duke ... and so would half of any time served rocker if they had had the chance.

Berry is just yet another hack regurgitating the usual tired, worn out stereotypes. Too young to know the truth, too lazy to do the footwork, too stupid to know the difference between the real thing and the Hollywood version.

What was it like in the old days ... s**t mostly. No one looked like the revisionists, certainly no real rocker could afford to. The bikes were old nails, the makers that made them arrogance and contemptful of us. Kids on Gold Stars ... don't make me laugh.