Manky Monkey Motors

Yesterday, (Sunday the 8th of June).
Young Janie & I spent a very enjoyable afternoon at the Ace café, on the North Circular.
Trading heavily on it's illustrious past as one of London's favourite "caffs", the Ace puts on a series of themed events. This weekend it was Triumph Day.
A good turnout, though I would've liked to see more real, Meriden Triumphs, rather than new Hinkley ones, (much like "new" Minis, Mustangs, Chryslers, Beetles, Fiat 500s etc, none of which I'd travel to a show to look at). Some lovely oldies though. Blazing sunshine & chilli cheese & chips in the café for lunch. Perfect.

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Great to see them being used and abused, happy days, thanks for the piccies MM. There must be a tee shirt for every thing nowadays, so "old rockers never............" over to you

Andy new camera seems to be working alright.

 :D -damn -can't think of a decent caption CS!
Yes Bob, I'm very, very grateful to Merv for the Fuji. Nice little camera. Only problem is it has a digital shutter, rather than a mechanical one, & there's a delay between pressing the button & it taking the shot -which means it struggles to photograph moving vehicles or people. We went right through the options & couldn't find a way of speeding it up. At some point later in the year I might pick up a second hand Nikon body, (about 100 quid on Ebay), but for now, thank you Merv!

Your welcome mate, if nothing else it will be ok as a fall back

Nice pictures.  Ill have the orange one, military one or the one above with the springer forks please, im not fussy  :)

 :) Good choices Sir.
The little orange "bobber" was just about perfect. The owner bought it, as is, from Ebay, & didn't know a lot about it.
The gold one's more of a traditional "chopper", but was running a skinny rear crossply & ribbed rear guard like the bobber boys.
"Military" one's a brand new Honda Shadow or similar, dressed up as vintage.

yep, after much looking, I'll have the gold one too, you seem to have some pretty good shows up your end of the world, almost enough to make me up sticks, wonder if the wife would miss me?

 ;D Haven't done many shows yet this year, but lots going on in the next few months. Busy, busy.

changed my mind, now being an old cafe racer from the 60's I do like that Triton and the thruxton bonnie, but, the real art picture is the riding boots with fisherman socks, that could grace any classic bike mag cover, 10 out of 10.

The blue framed Triton? Up for sale for 10 grand ish I believe.
I was too young for the caff racer scene, (started riding at 17 in 1978/79), but almost immediately started riding Triumphs & did indeed sport the black ex Police boots & fisherman's socks. Must've been a lot of Coppers & trawlermen with chilly tootsies back then.

I draw your attention to the Brooklands "ton up" day on the 6th of July & the Jacks Hill Café "ton up" day on the 13th of July.
Check the events calendar at the top of the page for details.

;D

Yep, it was a great day out, and the quality of the photos are excellent. Must get round to passing my pics to you.  ;)

I'm still waiting for the 6 photos you took at the Billing rod show!