Alright Cafe Racer fans and appreciators of vintage speed, it’s time to pull those air-cooled speed machines and modern Triumphs out of the garage for a weekend of fun and throttle twisting ton-up action at St. Pete Powersports “St Pete Thunder” event!

Unfortunately, The DCC Crew has a prior obligation in St. Augustine at Riding Into History forcing us to not be able to attend. So, we’re relying on you to represent Cafe and vintage bike culture at the event. It’s chocked full of more goodies that a weekend in Vegas with a get out jail free card, trust us!

The event is FREE all weekend long so there’s no excuse not to at least go and check it out. All the action starts at noon when the bike show registration opens on Saturday. Make us proud!

The Location: St. Pete Powersports • 555 34th Street South Saint Petersburg, FL 33711

Here’s just a couple of the things going on at the event:

- Music, Art & Motorcycles on Display
- PinUp Pageant & Show
- Ride In Bike Show w/ Trophies & Prizes
- A Dyno Challenge
- A Tattoo Contest
- $100/hr Cash Giveaways
- Indoor Lounge with DJ & VIP Area
- Live Music (10 Bands)

Here’s the full weekend band schedule for your review:

Saturday May 19, 2012

12-1 PM: The Hot Rod Hornets
1:30-2:30 PM: Betty Lou Fox
3-4 PM: Steve Arvey
4:30-5:30 PM: Soul Circus Cowboys
6-7 PM: Thomas Wynn and the Believers
7-8 PM: Hip Hop Artist LK OK

Sunday May 20, 2012

12-1 PM: Moonsnakes (Ricky Wilcox)
1:30 – 2:30 PM: Sweet Spot
3-4:15 PM: Jeremy Thomas Band
4:45-6 PM: Gerry Williams Band

If you’re not doing anything productive you should get on your speed machine and head up to say hi to our boys from Lowside magazine. They’re doing their issue #9 release party at Vanson Leathers. Check it out, here’s all the details!

Join the crew from Lowside Magazine this weekend at the Vanson Open House in their Fall River, MA factory and showroom. Vanson has invited us up to be a part of their Annual Spring Open House. Asides from great deals from Vanson all weekend, you also have the first opportunity to pick up the latest release from Lowside Magazine, issue #9. For more details on what Vanson has planned this weekend, check out their site.

Ride a cool bike? Then ride it to the open house. We’re always looking for content from our readers & Deb will be on hand to take photos. Maybe your bike will make it into a future issue of Lowside. If you’re not in the area and are still interested in submitting your bike, you may do so online here.

- The Lowside Crew

Check it out Speed Freaks! The boys at Bell Helmets hooked up the DCC Crew with some fully custom, one-off, hand-paint 500 Series 3/4 helmets that Skratch, the man, painted. That’s right, these are one-of-a-kind!

How do you win them? You ask? Easy…

Come hang out with us in The Cafe Racer Village at Road Atlanta next weekend.  We’ll be raffling them off to a couple of lucky winners!  Just be sure to head over to Bell Powersports on Facebook and LIKE their page and thank them for hooking us up!

Here’s the skinny on The Big Kahuna, be there or be square, Ace!

Hey Speed Freaks, the 25th Annual Donnie Smith bike show is taking place in St. Paul, MN and our pals over at Dennis Kirk are looking for submissions for a Cafe Racer to be displayed in their booth. They’re offering a $100 gift-card to whichever bike they choose to show in their booth, so it’s worth an email at least with a photo of your bike. Just shoot an email and description of your bike to Sam B. – SBeamond@denniskirk.com. May the best speed machine win!

Given the current rise in interest in Cafe Racers Dime City is contacted almost weekly about a future event going on in some town where a bunch of like-minded guys are going to get together and share in our passion, vintage motorcycles. Which is AWESOME! And we do our best to sponsor every one of them. This particular event though, The Modern Classics at Martin Motorsports, really caught our eye. Why you ask? Because it’s run by a dealership and they actually shut-down for an entire day, put all the new inventory in the back and open their entire facility to play host to vintage speed machines of yesteryear. How cool is that?

After talking with event coodinator and vintage bike appreciator, Kevin Hyde, it only made sense that Dime City get involved. You see, this year, they’re introducing a specific “Cafe Racer” class to the bike show with the hopes that it’ll bring some of the fantastic vintage bikes people have kept, restored and have been building in the PA area out for everyone to enjoy. What a great way to share in the history that so many people are now becoming aware of.

Above is a shot from last years event that went off without a hitch. Just look at the level of quality and attention to detail as it pertains to the presentation of all those gorgeous machines. Over 1,000 attendees showed and spent the entire day swapping stories of yesteryear, educating the younger guys and celebrating these fantastic old girls.

And if that in it’s self isn’t enough to motivate you to bring your bike out, take a look at the professional photographs they take of each an every entry by browsing their Flickr gallery from year – [CLICK HERE.]

And they’ve even gone as far as to create a gorgeous hard cover bound book detailing each and every one of the bikes. Talk about appreciation and helping to build the sport…

In short, if you’re in the PA area there really isn’t anywhere else you should on Saturday March third other than Martin Motorsports. Their staff is bar-none one of the best we’ve come across in the dealer network and in a time when everyone is focused on selling the next newest fangled thing to make a buck, these guys stop for a day and remember where it all came from. In our minds, it’s a benchmark for other dealers to follow!

Oh and did we mention we sent up over $1,000.00 worth of Dime City and Cafe Racer SWAG to be given away the day of the event?

So far the Cafe Racer class is filling up and Dime City Cycles is proud to partner with Martin Motorsports sponsoring it and providing a hand-built trophy for it’s lucky winner. Take a look at some of these amazing bikes lining up for the judges!

We do hope you’ll dust off the tank and seat on your bike and ride it over, even you don’t plan on entering it in the show. It’s well worth it and there really isn’t a better way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

For more details please visit: www.ModernClassicsBikeShow.com or contact Kevin Hyde via kevin@martinmoto.com.

Alright Cafe Racer TV Fans and Dime City Speed Freaks, if you missed the awesome Cafe Racer paddock we setup at Barber’s Vintage Festival with Ace Cafe, CRTV and DOTHETON.com this is your next opportunity to get a look at some of the coolest Cafe Racer’s and custom bike builders on the block! Pack your bags and grab the family for this fun-filled weekend of racing, vintage bikes and good times with like minded folks!

Come join Dime City Cycles, Brian Fuller, Santiago Choppers and other builders featured on Cafe Racer TV while we come together to share in the one thing that we all share appreciation for, Cafe Racers! Come see various bikes such as: The Brass Cafe and The Four Hundred, two of most potent Honda’s around from Dime City Cycles, Brian Fullers CB836 custom creation that rivals any CB750 on the street and Santiago Choppers famous Norley, the V-Twin engined speed machine in a feather-bed frame. This your chance to ask questions about the builds and get a closer look at these speed machines and their builders!

In addition, Cafe Racer Magazine is bringing their on-the-road bike show to the event and is calling for all Cafe Racers to be dusted off, polished and prepped for a chance at some camera time and a cool trophy! Café Racer Magazine editor, Mike Seate, says “the custom bike shows are a chance to witness firsthand the emerging trends and high-performance technology that make today’s café racer movement so exciting. Whether we’re looking at a garage-built, $500 Japanese bike or a fully restored $50,000 Vincent, these bikes all share the passion and uniqueness that’s made cafe racers popular for over 60 years.” Checkout the classes below and be sure to bring your bike!

- Best British Café Racer 1990 and Newer
- Best British Café Racer, Pre-1990
- Best American/European Café Racer
- Best Japanese Café Racer
- Wildest Custom Café Bike

*Show registration [which is free] begins at 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 21 & Judging for the show will take place on Saturday, April 21 at 3 p.m.

Event Details:

Facebook Page [Please Check-in Here!] – http://www.facebook.com/events/247091992041647/
Official Website: http://www.m1powersports.com/big-kahuna-atlanta/
Date: April 20th – 22nd
Location: Road Atlanta Race Track, 5300 Winder Highway, Braselton, Georgia 30517 [GOOGLE MAP HERE]

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

If you’re in the NYC area on Feb 11th this is definitley an event for you to check out. The famous “Shop” motorcycle shop, bar/grill and music venue is hosting a fashion show debuting their mechanic inspired work-wear.

Trust us, we’ve gotten a glimpse of this stuff and it’s worth a look. Designed by mechanics with real qualities that make your job easier, while looking snazzy of course. Oh, and of course there’s going to be gorgeous ladies and cool motor-bikes. Does it get any better?

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a month already, wow, tempus fugit! Our good friend Scott Turner, local race legend and Cafe bike builder has had a few of his bikes on display at Collective Art Gallery and Tattoo in downtown St. Petersburg. If you missed the opening night you’re in luck, because this Saturday night we’re doing a closing party for the showing at the gallery.

It starts at 8PM Saturday the 4th and we hope you’ll ride (or drive) down to join us!

You can checkout Scott on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Scott-Racing/

Alright Dime City Speed Freaks, we know there’s a TON of you in the San Diego area. If you haven’t already heard about it, this weekend is the 11th annual San Diego Mods Vs. Rockers and Dime City Cycles is proud to be a sponsor and partner of this years event.  We’ve sent $1,000.00 worth of killer DCC and Cafe Racer TV SWAG to be given away at the event, so if we were you, we’d get out there to get your hands on some of it!

Checkout TON-UP San Diego’s website for more details on the event and location: http://www.tonup-sd.com/