The fine folks at Triumph Motorcycles were kind enough to give our Bonneville CR project bike and our new CR Parts line a nice little feature on RideATriumph.com. If you’ve got a modern classic Triumph this is something you’ll want to see…

Remember the great video Duke Stokes and his team from Full Sail University did for us a little while back? Well, we just received word that the video has been selected to go to the 2013 nffty film festival as a contestant. How great is that? Congratulations Duke, you guys deserve it!

For those of you who haven’t seen the video, take a look below. And for information on the nffty ff go here: http://www.nffty.org/2013-festival-trailer The trailer video is pretty sweet and our man of danger Jason get’s a brief cameo on “Payback” blasting across the Gandy Bridge.

Unlike rumors that echo’d in the dark corners of the speakeasy’s from yesteryear, what we’re about to hit you with bub, is one-hundred percent truth. And their ain’t no jake-leg involved either! That’s right, you’ve heard things here and there, seen teaser photos of our slick new handle bars or headlight ears, maybe you’ve been lucky enough to of seen the prototype bike in plain sight. Well, it’s finally here, the 2012 Dime City Bonneville CR and the DCC Originals Triumph CR parts line.

Over a year ago Dime City Cycles partnered with our local Triumph dealership, St. Pete Powersports to develop a modern vintage inspired parts line for Hinkley Triumphs that boded a different aesthetic than the current products that exist on the market today. Think low-slung gritty yet sultry lines and styling inspired by the authentic Cafe Racer’s of the day – early Triumphs, Norton’s and the like.

We partnered with companies like Progressive Suspension, British Customs and now Iron & Air Magazine and are bringing you our version of what anyone with a set of tools, some time and the will to wrench can create with their own two hands. A modern-vintage Cafe Racer. From our garage to yours, the DCC Originals line of Triumph CR parts is about to be available.

Join us Saturday March 30th from 6pm till 10pm at St. Pete Powersports (directions below) for a laid back relaxing evening inside a dealership full of vintage and modern classic custom British Iron. At 8pm we’ll unveil the newly completed Bonneville CR and parts line and give you the opportunity to get your greasy little throttle twister all over them.

And one more thing – Want to get your hands on a special DCC & I&A swag bag? If you’re local to Tampa/St. Pete and are the proud owner of a vintage or modern custom British bike of any style email jason@dimecitycycles.com prior to the event with a picture of your speed machine. We’re looking for 25 special bikes to put on display inside the dealership for the evening event. You’ll be able to drop them off any time on Saturday and take them home after the event or on Monday. Join us and be part of the event!

So, throw in some good music, beer, wine and snacks and you’ve gotta ask yourself – does it get any better? Oh trust us, it does… At the end of the night we’ll be making an announcement that’ll blow your head gasket. See you there!

Event Details:

Location: St. Pete Powersports
Address: 555 34th St S St Petersburg, FL 33711 (Google Maps Link)
Phone: (727) 456-6088
Date: 3/30/13
Time: 6pm – 10pm *After party and ride to The Sake Bomb in downtown St. Pete

Several hotels are available in downtown St. Petersburg, for a listing via Google Maps [Click Here.]

What’s up Speed Freaks? If you’re anything like us you’ve been chomping at the wrench for the next season of Cafe Racer TV to hit Velocity. Well, to help keep the addiction shakes at bay and your own personal sanity in check, The Wing’d Piston is bringing you the Season 3 DVD set of your favorite fuel burning, shop visiting, history making moto-show!

Oh yeah, just in time for the holidays we’ve got four special Dime Store deals that’ll let you get your hands on the S3 DVD set and a Cafe Racer TV tee or the complete three season set for a smokin’ deal! Forget about who’s been naughty or nice, make your own Holiday season happen and grab your copy today!

[CLICK HERE] to head over to the Dime Store!

*The Season 3 DVD is also available by itself.

In Melbourne Australia on November 3rd and 4th Return of the Cafe Racers will be teaming up with Kustom Deluxe to host the first “Oil Stained Brain” custom motorcycle exhibition. Oil Stained Brain will be a two day long celebration of custom two-wheeled creations and the artists who build them. The show will host custom builds from Australian enthusiasts and custom workshops at the Thousand Pound Bend Gallery in the center of Melbourne’s CBD. And yes, the crew at Dime City Cycles has joined them and will be sponsoring the event from across the pond!

OSB will be one of the first shows of it’s kind in the famous land of OZ. With over 30 custom built motorcycles from undiscovered backyard builders & renowned custom workshops, motorcycle-inspired artwork, live music, prizes and giveaways it’s guaranteed to be a soul shaking event with lots to enjoy. If you live in Australia, anywhere, you better that sickly kick started and make the trip! Otherwise, you’re gonna be downing your sorrow in a keg of Toohey’s Old when see the post event photos online. Trust us!

You can purchase tickets here to attend the launch party on Saturday night or one of the daily movie sessions screening over the two days. Attending any of these events also gives you the chance to win great prizes furnished by the likes of Dime City and our other moto vendor friends along with network with other local custom motorcycle enthusiasts and builders.

Admission to the show during the day is open to the general public with a gold coin donation. Digg it!

Date: Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th of November 2012

Location: Thousand Pound Bend 361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000 (view map)

Note: Tickets must be validated at the door for entry into each event. Tickets are non-refundable.

Mabel, baby, we hate to see you leave, but we love to watch you go!

That’s right guys, the CB750 we built in partnership with Iron and Air is going to be on it’s way to it’s new owner soon. An unassuming Steve Matiasz from Brooklyn NYC has been chosen and is chomping at the bit to get the bike so he can tear up the streets of Brooklyn.

This entire build has been one of great triumph both for personal and business reasons for Herm and I.  The ability to give back and build a bike to give to someone for free is something that both of us never dreamed we would be in a position to do. We have to thank all our partners and sponsors for affording us that opportunity because without them this would never have come to fruition.

Bell Helmets
Cone Engineering
Erick Runyon of Choppershotz
Henry Canup’s Polishing
Iron and Air Magazine
Legendary Motorcycles
Moe Colors
Progressive Suspension
Pro-Fab Powder Coating
Steel Dragon Performance

And with all that – unless you were some poor sob trying hard to get off the grid, you’ve probably heard all about it by now.

Upstart moto heads, Iron & Air Magazine, on some hair-brained, PBR induced trance, decided to convince to rebuild a Honda CB750 and then, get this – GIVE IT AWAY. And that’s just what just happened at the 8th Annual Barber Vintage Festival in Ace Corner.

The donor was a rusty old POS that Herm and I found, haggled for, and then hauled back to the shop to begin the ceremonial breakdown. Wasting no time, acting as raging beasts, we reduced the classic ride down to a bucket of bolts.

Mabel, The Dime City Cycles ‘78 Honda CB-750K Cafe Racer glows with class. From its show stopping Legendary Motorcycles bodywork, the stainless steel Cone Engineering muffler with 4-into-1 exhaust, to the Progressive Suspension, the DCC 750K Cafe is bees knees. With its powerful engine and sharp handling, you’re guaranteed to grab all the looks from the opposite sex at the local pub.

Its throaty engine sound has no equal. Power comes from four cylinders displacing 736cc’s with a Dyna ignition keeping things in pace. The eight valves are operated by a simple, single overhead cam. Fuel is metered through four synchronized Keihin CR carburetors, equipped with an accelerator pump for throttle response that even “Mike The Bike” would be proud of.

With five well-spaced gear ratios to select from, the 750k can split lanes through downtown traffic or stretch its legs on those long country rodes we all love. And when you encounter that one obnoxious squid on a GSX-R 600, you can merely slide back a tad in the saddle, down-shift a gear or two and leave him in the dust – completely taken aback by the fact that an old heavy lump of metal just ate his modern power range cycle for breakfast.

While the DCC CB-750K Cafe does sacrifice the ability to carry a passenger in exchange for performance and styling, you won’t care…women will follow you wherever you go anyway. Sleek and low-profile instrumentation, new Progressive front suspension with reduced static friction, and special dual-stage damping shock absorbers that can handle small as well as harsh bumps with equal efficiency will make heads turn eveywhere. As one of the world’s premier cafe racers, the DCC CB-750K Cafe has a reputation second to none. It has the performance, styling and heritage of a champion.

And if all that isn’t enough, how about the paint job done by Moe Colors? Something Keith Richards would call his own, the lines and colors bode total “Rock Star.” And then there’s the first class powder-coating by Pr0-Fab Customs and the polishing work by Henry Canup of GetPolished.com. This baby drops swagger, instead of oil. Hopefully Steve will break the ton regularly and make both Herm and I proud!

Here’s the rest of the photos to take a peak at too!

Build Specifications

• 1978 Honda CB750 Engine w/ Dyna Electronic Ignition
• Customized 1978 Honda CB Frame w/ Full Rear Loop
• Keihin CR Racing Carbs
• Custom DCC/Cone Engineering Performance Tuned 4-into-1 Exhaust System
• DCC Original Rearsets w/ Cable Driven Rear Brake
• 7-way Adjustable Steering Damper
• Front and Rear Progressive Suspension w/ 2″ Shorter Front Tubes
• Legendary Motorcycles Manx Tank w/ Monza Cap
• Legendary Motorcycle Thruxton Seat w/ DCC Originals Cushion
• DCC Original “Speed” Bars
• Nissin Controls
• 2.5″ Mini Guages w/ Mounting Bracket
• All New Cables, Hoses, Et Cetera
• DCC Original British Headlight Bucket
• Stock Honda CB Wheels Powder-coated Black w/ Stainless Steel Spokes and Red Nipples
• Front and Rear Avon Road Rider Tires
• Paint work by Moe Colors
• Powder Coating by Pro-fab Customs
• And A Whole-Lotta Love from Herm and Jason @ DCC!

It’s times like these when Herm and I really enjoy being at the helm of Dime City Cycles. We started this business roughly 4 years ago with the idea in mind that we could simply have parts on a couple of shelves to help our woes with our own custom garage builds. Never in a million years did we think we’d be in a position to hand build a CB750 Cafe Racer and simply “give it away” to one lucky CAT sitting somewhere around the globe clicking around on this thing called “Facebook” connecting with us and all our friends.

Well, here we are – countless project build bikes, 24,000+ orders, 10,000+ satisfied customers in over 60 countries ranging from as far as Australia to The Eastern Block of Russia to Asia Pacific back to America and everywhere in between and we find ourselves in that very such position. It’s time to take a break from the day to day and do a little something in return for all the customers who’ve given us the opportunity earn their business and share with them the Dime City difference.

I’ll admit, the idea wasn’t completely ours. It’s the brainchild of Brett Houle, Publisher and Editor of Iron & Air Magazine. Brett called us in the beginning of June and said something along the lines of “Hey guys, we’re looking to have a vendor supply a bunch of parts for a give-away bike we want to pair with the first issues of Iron & Air. We’re still working on a builder, but we thought you guys could supply the parts. What do you think?” Herm and I chatted about it for a minute and our response was a resounding – “You’ve got your parts and your builder.”

From there the idea developed into what you see below and on the Iron & Air microsite www.ironandair.com/dimecitycycles (that’s where you go to register FOR FREE to win the bike) the basic idea here is that Herm and I are going to take a rust bucket SOHC CB750 we’ve had hanging around at Dime City and turn it into one of our signature Cafe Racers, for you, the winner, for free.  All you need to do is enter the contest (and if you’d be so kind) share the link on your Facebook wall and LIKE both Dime City Cycles and Iron & Air. Pretty easy right?

The build is going to take place over the next few months with the bike ultimately unveiled at the Barber Vintage Festival in Alabama. (You do NOT need to be present to win and International submissions are welcomed) A big thanks to our partners Progressive Suspension and Bell Helmets too, thanks to them this sweet CB Speed Machine will come with a fully dialed in suspension system and a custom painted 500 helmet to match. Pretty rad, eh?

We’ll get into more detail on the specifications of the build in the near future, but as it stands right now, here’s the short list of what we’re thinking:

Rebuilt engine with an 836 Kit
Rebuilt & modified stock 750 carbs w/ velocity stacks
Refurbished wiring harness
Reinforced stock CB750 frame
Legendary motorcycles fuel tank & seat w/ DCC upholstery
Avon rubber mounted on stock powdercoated rims w/ stainless steel spokes
Rebuilt brakes w/ stainless steel lines
DCC Original Clubman bars
…and of course, all the DCC fixings when it comes to mirrors, controls and the little details you’ve grown to love about our builds.

The CB750 Giveaway from DCC and Iron & Air Magazine, it’s happiness bottled up just waiting for you to pop the top. So, what are you waiting for? Head on over to Iron and Air to register for your chance to win and get your subscription to one of the best new moto-mags around.

Digg it, Ace.

Jason @ Dime City

In response to our recent email to customers  about our “Brat Style” seats along with our new Top Hoop Replacement Kit we received an overwhelmingly positive response. That said, we did have a few emails where-in the senders were concerned that Dime City was attempting to bring to market “Brat” style products without giving recognition to it’s originators in Japan, the custom shop “Brat Style.”

Let us say that we were are in no way, shape or form trying to take credit or leverage the name “Brat Style” in an effort to ride on achievements of others. The name “Brat” is just like the words “Chopper” or “Bobber” in our interpretation.  And at a more granular level, a sub-type of either of those categories, actually.  And while it might be the name of a shop in Japan, it has evolved into a style type in the custom motorcycle world consisting normally of bench style seats, upright bars and in most cases, raw finishes and mix-matched tires.

That said, a closer look at the “Brat Style” website in Japan reveals that they, themselves, actually build a myriad of bikes all of which are mostly “Bobbers.”  Or “Choppers.” In any event, it appears as though their shop name and style of some of the first bikes they built has become a household name as seen on BLOGs and forums galore. Our efforts to produce “Brat” style products has nothing to do with their name or shop; we are merely listening to our customers demands and the market and providing products for people to use on their custom motorcycles.

Given the ability to describe a bike of this style would be less fun or sexy with a name like “Flat Bench Bobber” it’s obvious to us why the name stuck and has become widely used.  We hope that our customers understand where WE are coming from and that Dime City has no desire to profit from others names or designs, these are our designs and products built in-house to fill a void in the US market.

And in finality, the guys at Brat Style in Japan have and continue to build some amazing bikes and The Crew at Dime City Cycles has the utmost respect for them.

- The DCC Crew

It’s been almost two months since we made the move across the train tracks to the new 6,000+ SF facility Dime City would call it’s new home.  It took quite a bit of man power, one leaking fork-lift and gads of Michelob Ultra to keep Herm’s fire burning, but we did it! We have arrived! We literally are, up-town from the train tracks now folks…

Granted, it’s only about 10 feet further “uptown” but hey, you gotta start somewhere right?

The new facility is a little over 6,000sf and houses the entire operations side of Dime City Cycles. On an average, we receive 50 packages a day worth of inventory and ship out another 90 to all the corners of the globe to satisfied wrench turning fuel burning customers such as yourself. We’ve increased our number of inventory shelves exponentially from the original 4 we started with a just a few short years ago and have everything ranging from Clubman bars, to gasket sets to tires and tubes and everything else in between.

Our goal is to continue to increase those numbers and products giving you a truly one-stop shop where you can get parts for any vintage (or modern custom) bike you’re building. Be it a Cafe Racer, Brat, Bobber, Chopper or Resto, we’re aiming to have all your needs in one single place, this single place. Honda, Triumph, Kawasaki, it doesn’t matter to us, we love them all and want to help you gain access to quality reliable products from a source you can trust. The Wing’d Piston.

We’ve increased stock on product like helmets from Bell and Biltwell and are working to open up a 700sf show room in the front of the building where you can come and oogle (instead of Google) products for both you and your builds. Plans to have the showroom open for 2013 are on track and we’ll share more photos as that evolves as well so stay tuned for that for sure!

The fabrication shop is still across the train tracks, but is open by appointment only, so if you’re planning on coming by please swing over to the new location first to see if anyone is across the street. While you’re there you can introduce yourself to Chris Horne, along with Brian Black and Nderim (Dah-reem) Elmazi, three of the finest warehouse personnel you’ll ever find picking and packing your orders of TON-UP goodness.

That said, we’d like to remind you that while we welcome people come by and say hello, Dime City is NOT a retail location (yet) and we do not have the mechanisms in place to make “stop-by shopping” possible. If you would like to come and pickup an order that’s fine, just please do us a favor and place it online first and let us know you’ll be picking up ahead of time. It makes the process much easier for us and get’s you back to your garage to start wrenching much faster. Which we know is the most important thing!

Well that’s it for now Speed Freaks…more news to come as we continue to settle into the new space and move through 2012!

Ride Fast. Live Well.

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]