Leave it to the guys at Bell to continue to come out with original and cool designs reinventing the look of 3/4 helmet. Checkout the three newest in the line-up by Roland Sands, Skratch and Bell today. The Roland Sans “Freedom Machines”, Skratch “Lace Green” and the “Hellfire.”
They’re three great new lids to add to your collection, snag yours now!
Roland Sands – [Click Here]
Skratch – [Click Here]
Hellfire – [Click Here]
Calling all TON-UP Junkies, Speed Freak’s and purveyors of all things old and fast! Dime City Cycles is grabbing our boots and moonshine and heading to Georgie for the annual Road Atlanta Race Weekend and boy have we got some special planned for all of you! Check it out below!
Join us along with dozens of other Cafe Racer bike builders such as: Bryan Fuller, Santiago Choppers, Steel Bent Customs, Loaded Gun and many more in a fun-filled family weekend of motorbike racing and appreciation for Cafe Racers at The Cafe Racer Village! We’re going to have all sorts of custom bikes on display, vendors setup with product that you can oogle instead of Google, live music, a bike show sponsored by Cafe Racer Magazine and a TON of other great activities.
Put it on your calendars and be sure to spread the word! We look forward to seeing you there!
It’s hard to believe it’s only been a few short years since Herm and Jason took a leap of faith and started wrenching on a ’72 Honda CB450. Who would have thought it would have ever gone this far? Bikes having been built, parts designed and produced and a wealth of items every man needs to build the Cafe Racer (or Bobber or Brat) of his dreams nicely organized in a warehouse run by guys who believe the world would just be a better place if everyone had a vintage motorcycle in their garage.
It seems like only yesterday that the DCC Crew (only two then then, now 6) moved into a small 700sf warehouse where the journey began. Bike building took place in one corner, a small PC managed the web orders and a single shelf for inventory and outgoing orders. 6 months later, a second 700sf warehouse was added along with 10 shelves for inventory and more room for bike and parts storage and then another 6 months later a third…
And now, since there simply aren’t any more warehouses in the building available to handle the pulse pounding petrol burning froth of Cafe Racer parts and goodness bellowing forth from Dime City, we must move to a completely new location. That’s right folks, we’ve official outgrown our space! What an awesome ride it’s been in just a few years! It’s only just beginning though…
Right across the train tracks sat a 6,200sf facility that used to be a marble counter-top production house just begging to be filled with motorbikes and cool parts. It houses enough space for what seems to be an unlimited supply of cool headlights, seats and rearset kits along with everything else you need to build your Honda, Triumph, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Yamaha or any other make and model Cafe Racer. Take a look!
The plan is to move the warehouse and operations side of Dime City across the tracks with a set of new offices and a long awaited retail store front so we can finally invite folks to come and checkout the goods we’ve got on tap for feeding their speed fueled addictions. Fenced in and secured parking means room to setup long-term tents and grill stations and maybe even a stage for music and parties and bike shows. Oh man…we’re getting ansi just typing this!
The custom shop and R&D lab will remain across the tracks in it’s original location and if the Gods of Speed permit, at some point, it may expand and grow into another unit as has happened with the warehouse. What a fun time!
We appreciate all of you, without you our customers and custom bike builders we’d be no-where. For that, we are forever indebted to you. Consider this a personal invite to stop by the new DCC sometime in June (or when it’s completed) and checkout everything that’s been behind closed doors.
Go go Cafe Racer!
- The DCC Crew
Hey there fellow Speed Freaks! We’ve gotten a few emails asking why we’ve been a little lax on our Facebook and BLOG updates the past week. We can assure you, the rumors aren’t true. Herm and Jason haven’t been replaced a couple of Chimpanzee’s, who can’t seem to make Facebook work properly… We’re just really busy making some major changes and updates to the Dime City website that will increase your customer experience and make it even easier to find parts for all the makes and models of mo’chines you guys are turning into Cafe Racers. Trust us, it’s gonna be great!
Check it out Speed Freaks, the custom Shadow VT800C we recently finished is up for display on BikeEXIF.com this week. Stay tuned to DimeCityCycles.com for a full feature photo gallery and technical spec list on this awesome machine later this week! Check us out on Facebook and let us know what you think of this TON-UP V-Twin terror!
Just a reminder Speed Freaks, Dime City is headed to Timonium, MD this week for the largest (North) East Coast show that takes place annually as guests of The Lowside Syndicate. If you’re around that area we hope you’ll come by and say hello and take a stab at the FREE raffle’s we have going on for Bell Custom 500 Helmets, Legendary Motorcycles Fuel Tanks and Seats and some kickin’ Gasolina Riding boots.
Details can be found at http://www.lowsidesyn.com
What is Lowside Magazine and why on Earth should you click your way through the Dime City store to snag a few back issues and a subscription today? Well, we’ll tell you…
Picture a world where no matter what kind of bike you ride; a Shovelhead Bobber, a CB550 Cafe Racer, a totally stock Triumph or a crazy KTM powered Chopper. In this world there are people from all walks of life. Hard-core lifer Harley riders who live and die by the Eagle and the flag, young punks who aren’t quite Hipsters- rather something else, who ride and rock Cafe Bikes like there’s no tomorrow, even the older gentlemen who’s forgotten more about riding and building bikes that most of us will ever learn in our entire lives riding his stock’ish resto Brit bike.
Are you starting to get the picture?
Lowside Magazine is the ultimate melting pot of magazines for those people in the vast world of motorcycling who love and appreciate the collective body of riders and builders who have one thing in common, their individuality. They thrive on difference and are continually inspired by one another and relish in the fact that by exposing themselves (not like that!) to fellow two wheeled speed freaks from other walks of life that they can in turn expand their mind and viewpoints on the ever-rotating and completely dynamic world we live in today.
Yeah, it’s like that.
And for those of you who’ve watched Cafe Racer TV, it’s no secret that our beloved 400F was built in partnership with the guys from Lowside. They rode over 1,000 miles one way to deliver the carcass of a once road worthy Honda and helped us chop it up and go over the plans for giving it a new lease on life. These were guys who if you saw at a bike show or event you would never have guessed were into Cafe bikes, but that’s point we’re trying to make, isn’t it?
It doesn’t matter what you look like or what you happen to be riding at the moment, you simply love and appreciate anything on two wheels and for you, Lowside Magazine is the perfect thing to sit next to your tool box or in your living room. It’s jam packed with Aces quality writing, photography and has a pulse on the underground world of motorcycling like no other publication out there.
That said…
As Lowside moves into Issue 8 you’re going to see an increase in the Cafe Racer related content as Publisher Rich Gohlinghurst has turned to The Wing’d Piston for help in keeping that side of The Lowside packed with information that you want to read about. Each issue will be beefed up with a feature story that relates to Cafe Culture (Issue #8 has a story on the Ace Cafe), there will be a featured Cafe Racer bike build, a new products page from vendors, an upcoming events schedule and a column by Jason Paul Michaels from DCC. Pretty RAD huh?
Needless to say, Lowside will be chock full of TON-UP goodness in 2012 and we know you’ll be as excited as this guy (Rich from Lowside) to get in on the action. So go on and snag a subscription today! Just look at any issue of Lowside on the DCC site and select to upgrade to a one year subscription before checkout. We’ll ship your back issue(s) from here and then your new editions will come right from the Lowside Crew.
Oh, and Issue #7 of Lowside was just released too. Remember, don’t ever judge a book by it’s cover, it’s contents may completely surprise you… [CLICK HERE] to get your subscription started today.
Pinch your nose and dig deep for your best North Eastern accent and say this word with us, “Tim-oh-nee-um.”
Now, we know at first you’re thinking it’s some sort of pandemic that has the potential to wipe the Earth clean of all it’s two wheeled devotee brothers and sisters to the cult of speed and desire of all things two wheels and although plenty of people on the other side the tracks would wish for that, it’s not. It’s actually the exact opposite…
Picture this, if you will.. Two 35,000 square foot warehouses full of everything and anything you ever have and ever will require to feed your addiction of custom motorcycles. Custom Oldschool Vintage Choppers and Bobbers, Dealers onsite from the likes of Triumph and Harley Davidson out showing their support for the growing custom scene, The Cafe Racer TV Crew including Dime City Cycles, Loaded Gun Customs and a hand-full of other builders, The high-end “AMD’esk” Custom Builder Scene, and just about any old school NOS part you could ever need for both domestic and foreign motor-sickles care of the largest swap meet to ever hit the East Coast.
To good to be true, right? No sir and it get’s better still..
There’s going to be at least 45,000 other like minded folks there with their bikes, their crews and their ideas to share in and help cultivate the next generation of custom garage built speed machines. Is there really a better way to spend your weekend? Walking through over 50,000 square foot of the best the motorcycle world has to offer with your buds. If you ask us, it sounds like heaven!
Join the entire Dime City Crew along with our sponsors and partners and help us share Cafe Culture and everything great about The Ace, Rockers and riding fast on our air-cooled Vintage Speed Machines with the rest of the world of custom and garage built motorcycles. We’re taking over an entire section larger than a 10 car garage with some of our fellow builders and will have Cafe Racer & Dime City merchandise onsite, parts to Ooogle instead of Google and as always, because we love you…
We’ll be GIVING AWAY TONS of awesome FREE SWAG and PARTS! Digg it!
Checkout the digital flier below; save it to your desktop, email it to your friends, post it on your BLOG, share it on Facebook and Twitter, print 1,000 copies and paper the streets with it! Do whatever it takes to get the word out, this is going to an epic event of Cafe Racer proportion and DCC wants you to be there to kick the tires with us and make some memories in 2012!
Stay tuned for more information in the weeks leading up to the event! And if you haven’t already, get your copy of Lowside Magazine today by [CLICKING HERE!] If it wasn’t for them this speed-baked coffee sippin’ kickin Cafe party wouldn’t be happening!
[Click Here] to visit the full info page on Lowside’s Website! For information on becoming a sponsor or partner/vendor for the event email rich@lowsidesyn.com directly for details. Just be sure to tell him Dime City sent you!
Location Information:
Timonium Motorcycle Show
Maryland State Fairground – Timonium, MD
February 10th -12th, 2012
Website: http://www.marylandstatefair.com/
[Click Here] for Directions!
Hotel Information:
Crowne Plaza Hotel
2004 Greenspring Dr.
Timonium, MD 21093
(410) 252-7373
Reservation Cut-off: Jan 16th 2012
Single or Double: $95 Per Night
Holiday Inn Timonium
9615 Deereco Rd.
Timonium, MD 21093
(410) 560-1000
Reservation Cut-off: Jan 26th 2012
Single or Double: $79 Per Night
Hey there folks, just a reminder the DCC webstore is open all weekend and Monday. We’ll be returning to the shop and shipping packages on Tuesday when UPS and USPS picks up their regular delivery schedule.
Have a safe and fun holiday weekend and enjoy all those DCC parts under the Christmas tree!
The Crew
Just a reminder Dime City Speed Freaks! We’ll be closed Thursday and Friday for the Holiday re-opening and shipping all pending orders on Monday.
We appreciate your business and wish you and yours a great and TON-UP Turkey filled weekend!
Herm, Jason, Kara, Michael and Shopdog
