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

After receiving literally hundreds of emails when our stock was depleted of the original Leather Wrapped Cafe Racer seat we were importing from Japan, we decided there was only one thing to do given the supplier stopped exporting to the USA. Re-make our own version of the seat here at Dime City!

That’s right folks, the leather wrapped Cafe Racer seat is back in stock and ready to ship!

Fitted above and shown on a CB350F, the leather wrapped “Cafe” seat from Dime City Cycles is 100% universal and can be mounted to just about any bike. Customers have fitted them to everything from Sportsters to BMW air-heads and everything else in between.  The universal brackets on the underside and two 6mm mounting holes make for a super easy install that simply requires a bracket between the frame rails and two tabs on the rear of your frame.

And if that wasn’t enough, given the shape and style of the seat it lends itself to a sleek timeless Cafe Racer look on any machine. Shown above on a semi-stocker or below on a full-on custom like Loaded Gun’s Triton Cafe Racer, you can see it fits the bill perfectly! The taper in the rear allows for a stock fender to simply “flow” underneath it, while on those machines with a more agressive stance, it opens up the rear and screams “Take me to THE TON baby!”

And did we tell you the best part? They’re about $40 less expensive than the original! Thanks to resourceful-ness on Herm’s part we were able to drop the retail price considerably. That’s right, instead of pocketing more cash for Pabst and new rubber for our bikes, we’re passing it on to you for yours. How awesome is that?

So, what are you waiting for? Follow this link by [CLICKING HERE] and order yours today, you know your bike is begging for one!

Here’s a shot sent in from one of our customers up in Antarctica, yes, Antartica!  Send us you “on-location” shots of the Mercury tee Speed Freaks, we’d love to know where you’re taking the marqee of speed!

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!

Most of these Monday pics don’t have any story behind them, the imagery speaks for itself. In this case though, we felt a need to share a little.

Any of you who’ve been to DCC know that it sits on a set of used rail-road tracks and on both sides there are large ditches. The road the shop is on used to go all the way through, but has since been blocked up with concrete borders by the city to stop through traffic. Jason hits the tracks daily on a Scrambled 450 and even that requires a bit of negotionation to get through and out properly. Even he’s dumped it in the past.

And every once and a while we’ll end up with some poor soul walking up to DCC asking us to help them pull their Jeep or Pickup truck out, but never before a motorcycle… Well, this fine fellow, thought his Honda Shadow could brave the trenches. Maybe he recently watch “The Long Way Around” or perhaps he was just feeling “Lucky.” No matter the cause, he was plain stuck and Scotty and Jason has the pleasure of helping him get un-stuck. What a sight…

We imagine had he some friends around this little endeavor would have started with a classic “Hey ya’ll, watch this!”

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!

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!

[What's left of the Rebel 450 DCC and Porkey's Choppers built in 36 hours at Timonium for Spike [photographer of photo] last month. Stay tuned for the full report on the build!]