UGG BOOT PHOTO SHOOT

Posted on June 21, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

21 Jun

A fun time we had, as UGG BOOT Australia asked if i could help with a Photos shoot for some of their new fashion boots. Sure I said and took a couple of bikes down, a bunch of my helmets and jackets and hen went to a cool old spanish villa in Siera madre for this shoot.

A great bunch of lads, the main Model they flew in from italy and the girl Model they flew in from germany, the make up guy was from France, so a whole global community was here and just a mellow cool atmosphere.

We were there maybe 4 hours and just had fun to be honest, plenty of food and plenty of laughs too thats for sure.

This fella was a great laugh and get to chin wag on the good old Facebook with him from time to time.

A really pictursque place to do the shoot and am so glad that I did it.

The cool thing for me was that when me and Jennifer went to london to see my folks, we went in the UGG boot store in pica dilly and there I was on their video, and then I was also on a giant bill board on ceasers Palace wall for all and sundrie to see, just a great time.

They were trying to capture the spirit from an old photos taken in the 60’s and got it pretty close.

I thought that I would post a couple of photos on here for you lot to see and I can share the moment.

I suppled a few bikes and a lot of clothing etc and it really turned out well.

Look forward to another shoot one day as we all seemed to hit it off that day and I will never forget it.

Hope you dig the photos, and it was nice to be in a little bit of that show Biz environment.

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend.

THRUXTON CURVED LICENSE PLATE

Posted on June 18, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

18 Jun

Well, Back in the Day, many of the rockers decided to put their License plate across the front forks and made the bike look more aggressive.

I have grown up in this industry and had these on my machines, as they banned fendered mounting number plates back in the early 70’s aptly names Pedestrian slicers and i rode with mine across the forks too.

So- here is our New product and its for the good old Thruxton, although we are making some with Rockers on right now, but the Thruxton was an iconic bike and I wanted something cool on my machine, so we came up with this set up.

This is hand made and come with all ready to bolt to your THRUXTON, the brackets are thick gauge steel and the License plate is fully Embossed Aluminum just as it was back home in Blighty in the day.

This is ready to bolt and go, takes 2 minutes and you are ready to go and yes, the bolts come with it.

If you like the yesteryear look, then this is right up your alley and I really love it on my machine.

Have a look and see if you like this, we have made quite a few of these and now available to you, we also ship 6 days a week and all over the globe.

This will not flop about and bend as we used thick steel and I know you will like this set up and will be eager to fit this to your machine.

We are making all sorts of parts for the Triumph Thruxton, Bonneville and the Royal Enfield and a New Website almost upon us too, so keep checking back.

We really do enjoy what we do here at CCR and hope that you like the products we offer to the public.

Thick steel and the bracket is welded to the curve and the Embossed plate is ontop of that, she will be all set and you can fit right away using your existing Thruxton brackets under your headlight.

Black and silver is the old school way and I am pleased to offer these to you right away.

If you have a Thruxton and you dig the old rockers stuff, then I am sure you will love this set up for your machine.

You can call us on 714-996-4597 and we will help the very best that we can or you can sling some coins in the slot after hours and leave a message, if you prefer to email us then simply carpy@carpyscaferacers.com and I always answer emails.

Relive the days of the Rockers with our license plate that screams Nostalgia.

We live and breath this stuff and that’s why we do so much in this styling.

Our Royal Enfield gets another exhaust.

Posted on June 12, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

12 Jun

Hey there you lot

Well, if you are looking at this Blog, you are probably interested or even own one of these Red Rockets? below is a Video i took on my little Camera and the sound really is quiet ccompared to real life, but- you will get the idea.

Now, even though I like the bike, the exhaust is something that I am not a fan of, so here at CCR, we have come up with a Cool, classic reverse Cone Megaphone that fits the bill.

This time I fitted the new Megaphone but I found it a little too noisy if you can believe that, but it needed just a slight tweak as I fear the neighbors would not be happy if I blapped home on this every night and needed to find a good Status Quo.The one in the video you see is just raw seel and, until I am happy with it, this one will stay until we make the Stainless steel versions which will be in Raw Stainless and polished stainless and that choice will be yours.

So, here is the last Video for now and to be honest, I am happy with it, the motor was still cold too and she still ran and didnt have to map it, so am really happy, the video I do next week will be with the completed stainless Steel megaphone and they will be available to purchase next week.I shall also take a few more videos of the bike going along the road so you can hear the other tones of the Megaphone when i change up and down the gearbox. Can’t be much fairer than that eh?

Let us know your thoughts at carpy@carpyscaferacers.com or you can always drop a wee bit of coin in the slot to us at 714-996-4597.
many thanks for looking as we love to hear your views good or bad, we love what we do and have been over here doing this for 14 years and its great meeting new flk who are as mad about Motorcycles as us.

Remember- the final product will be stainless steel and will look awesome.

Triumph Thruxton Exhausts sound and look cool. The Monarchs

Posted on June 11, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

11 Jun

Here at C.C.R. we love what we do and I am now making Reverse Cone megaphones for the good Old Triumph Thruxton and the trusty Bonneville Motorcycle

These exhausts have a very unique tone of their own, unlike any of the other pipes out there, it took us some time to work out what we wanted but I am s happy with these.

Now available in Raw Stainless steel or a super polished Stainless, you will really like the way that these exhausts enhance your machine.

We have Aptly named the the Monarchs, obviously from my background and where Triumph was originally from, thought that they suited the megaphone.

We have just started to ship these around the globe and, as we ship 6 days a week, you will receive these fast.

Oh yes, so easy to fit too as all the bracketry has been done for you, simply unbolt your old exhaust and remove the old clamp etc and simply put the new stainless clamp on and slide the megaphone onto the header, put the factory bolt through the hanger and tighten the clamp and that is it.

If you are wanted a louder, yet crisp tone to your machine, then look no further, as these will fit the bill no problem at all.

I like them in raw stainless as it give it that race track feel and look, but that is up to you and you do get a choice when you order for raw or super polished.

We love these exhausts and will be manufacturing a few different styles, so keep checking back with us as we go along this fun journey.

As you can see, the photo above shows the same Megaphone polished to a high luster an the Noise is the same.

A great dress up kit and the good thing is at $460, these are affordable for the look that most people want.

This is our lifestyle too, we did put a lot of time ad effort into these, designing a few of these and trying them out until we were happy with the end result that you see here.

We had no problem with the mapping either as i fitted and roared up to the Triumph dealer to show them what we had done and they loved it and have 3 orders from the already.

We shall also be making other exhausts systems, as well as different seats, headlights, turn signals and cool pats like bash plates and shocks, so keep checking with us.

I hope that you like the look of what we have done and we are dong more things to My machine all the time, so this bike will see a few guises to help you see what the parts look like.

If you are into the Triumphs, then you will be into our parts, keep a local business going by supporting them, we have been here 14 years and love what we do and enjoy meeting customers too.

If you like these, simply jump on the parts page and click the Triumph section and we shall get the parts off to you, many times the same day.

As you can see we have a Royal Enfield in our stable and soon we shall have a Bonneville and a Scrambler, so we can cater for you all.

Any questions just drop us a line at carpy@carpyscaferacers.com or drop a dime in the slot at 714-996-4597 and we shall help you the best way we can.

We are revamping with more parts for more bikes and this is going to be a fun ride, thanks for stopping by.

Royal Enfield Continental GT Exhaust coming together

Posted on June 7, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

07 Jun

As you can see we have done quite a bit by fitting our New Turn signals, shortening the fenders, we have a cool smaller Chromed headlight, as well as a Classic looking set of Bar end Mirrors, and then I fitted our Custom shocks too, we also removed the hideous Large License plate and fitted a custom one of our own-and now of course we are working on the Megaphone exhaust.

OK, we have been working hard on getting the Royal Enfield Megaphone looking good, once I am happy with the look, the fit and above all, the sound, we shall have these in Stainless steel offered in raw or super polished.

This will be a really cool and classic looking set up and the great thing about this is that there is no more hardware, you simply remove your big old Cannon and then slip ours on, this come complete with a stainless clamp too and bolts right up into the Original bracket location.

This is something I want right and believe that we are getting there and hopefully by Next weekend this will be completed and we will be taking orders of this unique set up.

We love what we do here at CCR and hope that you enjoy following the progress on certain projects that we attack and give it our very best attention.

Thanks for all the encouraging emails as we do have fun with the little Red Rocket and am hoping to have some sound bytes and of course video’s of this in action for you to watch and hear.

Here it is, my New Royal Enfield- Finally

Posted on May 22, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

22 May

I have been waiting since November 2013 for the Royal Enfield’s to come into the country and here it is in may and I find out that Today I shall take charge of my machine.

This little Bike is a quite a bit of an improvement on the earlier models and having a new re-engineered power plant that now produces 535cc, which of course is not going to rip your arms off but, is a better built motor than the ones of past, thus said is a fun ride that when you first kick it in the guts, the motor will jump into life and have that deep long stroking sewing machine sound that I have not heard in many years.

But let me emphasize something right out of the gate on this Blog- although this is a cool Classic cafe racer styled machine, it is not going to be a Ton Up machine in this guise, this is a fantastic town bike and journeys are fin but topping out at the 80mph mark may not be what you are wanting, But- in all that said, this is a superb machine at a really really affordable price, I shall will make sure that once all run in, this machine of mine will hit the TON with a few engine mods, but for value for money this is awesome.
I have a Thruxton if i want to go crazy and get my earole scrapping the tarmac and this is something I really wanted as it has so many classic lines, how can you not love it?

This has so much appeal to the public, Girls will really dig it as it has kick start and electric start and is a light weight machine and a lot lower than even the Thruxton. So take the bike with a pinch of salt and with some Mods, this machine can fly- Remember, this is a New production and I guarantee you will see fast ones on the road later in the year.

Plenty of these have been made but it has taken a long time to get to my shores of Sunny California as the emissions here are tighter than anywhere in the globe.

The bike is a fun machine and no way could I build one as cheap as these are to purchase and this is a fun little Cafe Racer motorcycle that looks like back in the day, of course much improvement on reliability and handling,

What is cool is that the front end has a single disc rotor and has been blessed to adorn a Brembo set up that will make sure that you stop when you really need to.

These have been out back home for almost a year I guess and today I was happy to get the phone call to come and get mine.

These machines shout out at the world that Royal Enfield is back and I for one are grateful that the risk they took was a solid one.

I was so surprised to see that these are even equipped with a set of Paoli Piggy Back shock absorbers, another cool addition to this bike.

This has a kick starter and an electric, so no more embarrassing stalls at the traffic lights.

The bike is a great little design and this has the New Harris Performance Twin Down Tube Cradle frame that was meticulously re-engineered back home in the UK.

The gas tank is 13.5 litres so should do quite well on a road trip and at 365 Kg this is nt a heavy bike at all and that opens to door for many riders, especially those who are shorter and have had problems with other machines.

The exhaust is awful and one of the first things that i am going to change is this and we will be making our own systems, as well as other cool parts to improve some of the looks to change the Modern styling to a little more Cafe look.

These have got to go, the massive European style license plate backing, the hideous turn signals will get more classic styling ones and of course the rear fender will be poo canned and have a short rear end as the bike will look way better like that.

I will also be removing the headlight as it is too bulky and shall fit one of our very own models to give a wee bit more finesse. Also, the front fender needs to be shortened and that’s easy as the mud flap screws off but shall be making new fenders for this as well.

Once the big turn signals are removed and smaller ones fitted, I shall feel better, the UK ones are way better but these ones on here are going this weekend, I actually like the gauges as they remind me of my T100 Triumph Daytona.

I think that I shall bung some pin lines on it too this week to break the Red up a little, and all my machines have pinstripes somewhere on them.

Plenty for me to see and do to personalize my little Red Rocket and be sure to check my blogs on what I do with this bike as I shall be offering the parts that we produce to you lot who have just purchased your Royal Enfield Continental GT.

Royal Enfield A New bike looks Old

Posted on May 19, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

19 May

Below:

Race ace John Cooper at the Silverstone circuit, commemorating the record smashing lap which happened 50 years ago, on the very same track

Starting out at John O’Groats and passing through the stunning roads of Fort William and Carlisle, the Continental GT’s are about to reach Penkridge.

‘Nutty’ Hazell, Royal Enfield technician starts up one of the Continental GT bikes for the ‘Top to Tip’ 50th anniversary ride, repeating the famous sprint from John O’Groats to Land’s End.

Doug Young dips the back wheel of his Continental GT in the Pentland Firth, imitating original rider Brian Crow from the 1964 BurnUp

Doug Young and Adarsh Saxena get ready to ride, while Royal Enfield Senior Marketing Manager Rajan Pillai makes some last minute checks.

Doug Young, Sachin Chavan, Adarsh Saxena, Colin Johnstone and Philip Hogg commence the Royal Enfield ‘Top to Tip’ 50th anniversary ride.

My mate Sarah Bradley rides the Royal Enfield Continental GT through Penkridge.

The Continental GT’s line up before they take on the Silverstone circuit.

John Cooper rides the Royal Enfield Continental GT on the Silverstone circuit, looking to recreate his record-breaking lap around the track in 1964.

Roger Boss takes the original GT out for a spin on the legendary Silverstone circuit.

Time to shine! The Continental GT is prepared for the final leg of the Top To Tip ride.

Dan Cartwright rides the Continental GT in Land’s End, England.

Covering 952 miles in 20 hours and 47 minutes, this Continental GT, ridden by Tom Bray on the last leg with registration PE14 OUL was the first GT to complete the 2014 Top-To-Tip ride!

Royal Enfield CEO Siddhartha Lal (C) with Royal Enfield riders Tom Bray (L) and Dan Cartwright (R) at the end of the modern Top To Tip ride in Land’s End.

(L-R) Royal Enfield riders Rob Graham, Paul Blezard, Dan Cartwright, Sandy Caulfield, Tom Bray and Sam Manicom in Land’s End.
This group of riders took part in the ‘Top to Tip’ sprint ride to mark the 50th anniversary of the original ride and to celebrate the launch of our first exclusive store launch in the UK.

The GT strikes a pose in Land’s End after completing the ride across UK in less than 21 hours.

Nice Custom touch here, all the way from Uruguay.

In 1964, Roger Boss of Royal Enfield decided to test the speed and reliability of the ’64 Continental GT by getting a group of five riders to ride across the United Kingdom in a day.

The Tour Of Bhutan 2014:

Royal Enfield Cafe Racer by T-Factor Bikes

Hailing from the Kingdom of Belgium is T-Factor Bikes a one-stop motorcycle store offering a variety of services for passionate motorcycle enthusiasts. T-Factor Bikes is Owned and operated by Yves.

Yves, now 39 was bitten by a motorcycle bug when he was teenager. Everything he does has more or less something to do with motorcycles and the culture around them. In 2005 Yves started his own company ‘T-Factor Bikes’ located near Ghent, 30km from Brussels. With humble beginnings the company is now a full professional and all around motorcycle store. Yves is joined by his 2 helping hands Filip, who has 20 years of Honda experience and Mathias, the young blood in the company who has also been bitten by the motorcycle bug.

T-Factor Bikes specializes in Royal Enfield, Norton and Benelli. They sell and maintain bikes but what they are most passionate about is customizing and rebuilding bikes at the demand of their customers. All three contribute to the projects and the end result represents a little piece of each of them. Yves tells us “The love for Royal Enfield started about a year and a half ago. We became interested in the brand, and since the first time we rode one we were sold and completely into Enfield”.

Whilst they were busy on another bike project they came up with the id

Whilst they were busy on another bike project they came up with the idea to build a Royal Enfield Café Racer. They had the idea and they have done it, introducing their Royal Enfield Cafe Racer. Yves runs us through the build process…

“We started with a new Bullet Electra 500EFI, which we demounted and we took the frame as the base of the racer. This is completely cleaned from all its unnecessary parts and painted in red. The wheels, front shocks, custom made exhaust and engine carters were painted in black and the rebuilding of the bike could begin. We CNC and adjusted a Beringer front brake disc and caliper instead of the original Enfield front brake. Together with an iron front brake line and the original brake pump the Enfield would have much more braking power.

We mounted the front fork with a custom made yokes and front fork top bridge. Between these two are the clip-ons and headlight located completely in café racer style. A front mudguard was modified and together with our custom-made speedometer table the front of the bike was complete. As for the fuel tank we picked an alloy type made for Royal Enfield, where we adjusted a seat on. This is modified on the frame and completely custom made, including the cushion. The seat also stores a lightweight battery and the power commander, which gives the bike more power.

At the back are the custom-made rear shocks from Hyperpro. These are exclusive for this bike and completely adjustable.

The heart of the bike, the 500cc engine is on the outside modified with black carters and red painted Royal Enfield logos. At the inside, the engine is changed with a ported head. This is positive for the airflow and together with the commander the bike now has 38Hp on the bench instead of 32Hp before the upgrade. On the injection we mounted a K&N air filter, because of the weight and the old school look.

To complete the look of the bike we mounted the front mudguard and a fuel tank with back-step kit and airbrush the seat. Having the bike finished in the way we wanted makes us very satisfied. The Royal Enfield Cafe Racer was a nice creative project, it’s a fantastic bike to work with and we are looking forward to building our next one!”

El Mirage this weekend – Hope to see you there.

Posted on May 17, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

17 May

SCTA returns to El Mirage looking for records

May 16, 2014 11:42 PM

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Do you have a need to see some speed?

The Southern California Timing Association can help this weekend.

On Saturday and Sunday at El Mirage Dry Lake, SCTA is putting on the first of six land speed racing events.

Depending on the vehicle count and how well they handle the elements, drivers may have up to six or seven opportunities to set world records in different types of cars and motorcycles — old and new — with different sized engines. Drivers from as far away from Sweden and Norway are signed up to participate.

One car takes off at a time to challenge the 1.3-mile dirt straightway on the west end of the dry lake. High Desert Racers president Tom Foley said they’re expecting at least 100 vehicles to enter.

Car inspections were held from Friday afternoon and there was a rookie driver orientation afterward.

“If you’re a rookie, we don’t just turn you lose on the lake bed,” Foley said. “You have to go through inspection. Basically if you turn to the right you have a broken vehicle. If you turn to the left you have a normal return. It’s a good thing to turn to the left, but you can’t go out of bounds and you lose all your points. Safety, of course.”

Racing begins at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.

To participate, drivers must be a member of a racing club affiliated with the SCTA at El Mirage, or they can compete as a guest. Guest times will be unofficial, and guests can only compete if their vehicle passes the safety check, Foley said.

Foley, a Phelan resident, holds land speed records at El Mirage in the 1350cc engine vintage motorcycle sidecar gas and fuel divisions.

SCTA sanctioned events at El Mirage will also be held June 22, July 13, Sept. 14, Oct. 19 and Nov. 8-9.

It costs $15 per carload per day to enter the lake area and it doesn’t cost any extra for camping.

C.J. Daft can be reached at christiand@vvdailypress.com or at 760-951-6275.

The great thing about El Mirage is this has been a place to go fast since before WW2, many people have been here to ride motorcycle, drive hot rods and even landing a plane, I have been involved in many photo shoots here, as well as some TV documentary’s, this place is oozing with History.

So, get yourself down to El Mirage as just to see the cars and bikes getting ready to run the dry lake is awesome and probably the only place other than Bonneville that you can get right next to the machines for a closer peek at what drives people to come here from all over the globe.

Maybe next year we shall build something to run, but for now I just love the atmosphere and the chance that someone may even break a world record at the dry lake.

Be there to see the start at 7:30am it gets hot, so be prepared with plenty of liquids and wear a hat.

RUSS COLLINS, A legend with CB750’s PASSES AWAY!

Posted on May 12, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

12 May

So sad to hear the news of my hero Russ Collins passing away, I was gobsmacked when I heard ten minutes ago, this guy was an icon of mine and many around the world, he may be gone but NEVER forgotten. RIP Russ!

If you are into CB750 Honda’s, then you would of heard of Russ Collins.

Russ Collins

Russ Collins was one of the leading motorcycle drag racers and drag bike builders of the 1960s and ‘70s.

He was a hero of mine and got to see that bike run over in the UK, and now there is a documentary about him and of course the Sorcerer triple engined CB750 SOHC Drag bike, that is now going to be restored.

Born in New Jersey 1939, he was into anything mechanical and his interest in cars lead him to be an accomplished car mechanic and a body man, he later get into trucking business and drove around the country. He fell in love with California and moved there.

He became a shop manager and a mechanic in motorcycle dealerships. While there, Honda unveiled the revolutionary CB750 Four and he got one to play with.
Collins built a four-into-one exhaust system that a lot of Honda owners wanted, so in 1970 he quit his job at the motorcycle dealership and opened RC Engineering, which later became a leading maker of racing fuel-injection systems for Japanese-made sports cars.

What I like about him most is that he was radical in the drag racing scene; he was racing the new Japanese machines while everyone was on the normal British or American-made drag bike of the time. Collins also showed up in sporting colorful red, white and blue leathers when everyone was in all black leather suits.

He built “Assassin”, a fuel injected, supercharged 400hp CB750 and kicked ass in smaller class. so decided to compete in Top Fuel and had some success. But the biggest problem he faced in Top Fuel was a huge displacement disadvantage compared to the big Harley-Davidsons and Triumphs.

He decided to put 3 CB750 engines together. The machine, he named “Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe “– named in honor of the famous railroad line of the late 1800s. The three-engine Honda was featured in bunch of motorcycle and drag racing publications and was probably the most famous drag bike of the 1970s. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe set numerous records and Collins rode it to the first seven-second quarter-mile turned on a motorcycle in Ontario, California, in 1973. It even became the first motorcycle to win NHRA’s coveted “Best Engineered Car” award at the Springnationals in 1973

Check out this awesome page below.

The bike was so powerful and heavy that it proved to be very hard to control and in 1976 the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was destroyed in a horrendous accident in Akron, Ohio. The crash nearly killed Collins and put him in the hospital. He must have realized how ridiculous the bike was, so petitioned for banning 3 engine drag racers. But as a true grease monkey, while recuperating, he dreamed up V8 engine out of four cylinder Honda motors.

The bike he named “the Sorcerer” featured dual Honda 1,000cc engines. This bike won a second “Best Engineered” award for RC Engineering and proved to be the fastest motorcycle ever built by the company. Collins ran a record-setting 7.30 second/199.55 mph run on the Sorcerer. That record stood for an astonishing 11 years. Collin still lives in LA area and runs the RC engineering and was inducted in AMA Motorcycle of Hall of fame in 1999.

Russ Collins built the ‘Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe’ drag bike with 3 nitromethane-powered CB750 engines in 1973. It nearly killed him three years later.

I have never met Russ Collins but seeing as he is not too far from me, I am going to phone him and ask if I can at least say hello.

Cool Artwork by David Cran

Posted on May 2, 2014January 30, 2020 by Steve Carpenter

02 May

Davis Cran is a great illustrator up there in maple Country, he is in Vancouver B.C. and I wanted to share this with you, I cant draw using a Computer, I have to d it by hand- but sure wish I could do Photoshop and illustrator, look at the great job that Dave has done on this CB350.

Top marks mate and keep it coming,.

Here is the website for any more info on him.

http://bit.ly/Vtpa8N

A cafe racer (/ˈkæff reɪsər/kaff racer) or (Ca-phay racer), is a term used for a type of motorcycle, as well as the motorcyclists who ride them. Both meanings have their roots in the 1960s British rocker or ton-up boy subculture, although the type of motorcycles were also common in Italy, France and other European countries. The term, which originally arose as an insult from motorcycle enthusiasts towards riders who they thought were playing at being a road racer but merely parked outside cafes, refers to a style of motorcycles that were and are used for fast rides from one transport cafe or coffee bar to another.